Reconfiguring!
Machine Project is currently undergoing reconfiguration. We will be back to “normal” soon.
Machine This Week: May 3rd – 6th
A puppet show by DanRae Wilson and Miriam Jones. Swing by and see a 2 minute puppet show for 1- 2 people at a time. Perfect for on your way to or from dinner, as a destination for an evening stroll, or as a tiny pre-party to your big night out. Ongoing from 8-10pm, we’ll repeat the show as audience members drop in.
Emily Lacy brings sound and distortion to the final days of the Machine Project Transdimensional Hallway in a new piece entitled Corpor. Entering and exiting is encouraged in this 3-day performance examining presence, absence, and the business of our daily lives. From the roots of the word “corporate”, a mythology is explored around the body and it’s relationship to business and commerce as a whole. Emily will be using the unique shape of the hallway to distribute music dynamically. Visitors to the work are encouraged to come and go as they please.
Machine This Weekend: April 28th – 29th
Come learn the Pepper’s Ghost effect and more in this three hour workshop with multimedia designer Chris Weisbart.
Gone are the days of blissful suburban wandering, shopping, and hanging out in the well-lit corridors and food courts of our past. Come mourn the great american shopping mall – an increasingly irrelevant space in an age of Big Box stores and economic angst. Claire Cronin and Stephen Van Dyck will pay tribute to these dead, abandoned malls through a performance of 80?s pop hits redone as dirges, with a corresponding sound installation.
Machine This Weekend: April 20th – 22nd
Come chill out to the deep and soothing tones of Ambient Force 420 as they explore the more psychedelic aspects of the Transdimensional Hallway. Featuring the “Trippy Transdimensional Corridor,” the “Righteous Relaxation Room,” and the obligatory “Taco Truck Consumption Chamber.”
Poet Maged Zaher presents How the English Language Helped Me Become an Egyptian Poet. Maged will be reading mainly from his latest manuscript “The revolution happened and you didn’t call me” and will also be giving a talk – in between reading the poems – about his beginnings as an Arabic language poet, and his move to English a few years after his arrival in the US.
Please join us for an afternoon hike with poet and farrier Michael Earl Craig, author of Thin Kimono now out on Wave Books. Michael Earl Craig will read some poems and then answer any questions you may have about horseshoeing.
LOCATION: Everyone will be meeting in the parking lot at the following address:
Wilacre Park
3431 Fryman Rd, Studio City, CA 91604
http://www.lamountains.com/parks.asp?parkid=66
There is a $3 fee to park in the lot. Please arrive early, hike embarks promptly at 3pm..
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Six participants will be selected to participate. There is no fee for this program. Applicants are encouraged to apply regardless of educational background or previous experience. Undereducated? Overeducated? No problem!
Poetry Hike with Eileen Myles
In collaboration with the CalArts Poetry Collective we are hosting a day hike with poet Eileen Myles, who will be reading from her new book of poems entitled Snowflake, currently out on Wave Books.
Please meet with us at the first parking lot inside the entrance gate to Ed Davis Park in Santa Clarita at 2:45 pm. Hike embarks promptly at 3pm.
Directions:
To get to Ed Davis Park at Towsley Canyon from LA take the 5 to the Calgrove exit which is near the top of the Santa Clarita Valley coming from LA. Turn left at the end of the ramp, go under the highway. You will pass the turn for the Old Road on your right-go straight on here, now Calgrove has become the Old Road. Coming up almost immediately is the park. You will see the gate on your right. Go through the gate to the main parking lot. You can’t miss it.
The Hike:
The hike as planned is about forty five minutes into the park. So ninety minutes round trip or two hours if after the reading you complete the lovely loop. It starts pretty level and begins sloping up with the last half of our ascent to the reading site being somewhat steep though not crazy steep. If you have hiked to the top of Griffith park we would say the ascent to the reading spot is very similar in terms of difficulty.
Infantcore video
A playroom as an alien zoo for babies. Sound (by Scott Cazan) is generated by movement of babies using color motion tracking.
See What Love the Father Has Given Us
ALL SHOWS HAVE BEEN SOLD OUT.
Email machine[at]machineproject.com to be placed on the waiting list.
Dates:
Thursday 3/29 @ 8:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Friday 3/30 @ 8:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Saturday 3/31 @ 6:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Saturday 3/31 @ 9pm (SOLD OUT)
Sunday 4/1 @ 7:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Thursday 4/5 @ 8:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Friday 4/6 @ 8:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Saturday 4/7 @ 6:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Saturday 4/7 @ 9pm (SOLD OUT)
Sunday 4/8 @ 7:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Tuesday 4/10 @ 8:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Tuesday 4/17 @ 8:30pm (SOLD OUT)
Tuesday 4/24 @ 8:30pm (SOLD OUT)
See What Love The Father Has Given Us by Asher Hartman is a religio-dramedy about three big box store employees who travel through tiers of reality taking on aspects of the Holy Trinity. Each performance will be limited to an intimate audience of twelve who’ll be immersed in scenarios which may include: Professional Amateurism, Alien Ass Cannons, Non-Threatening Muzak, and/or Interplanetary Love. This play will take place in a specially constructed Transdimensional Hallway which bisects the Machine Project gallery and comes equipped with 19th century special effects.
If you’re regretful that you didn’t have a chance to contribute to the kickstarter campaign you can still do so here http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/machineproject/transdimensional-hallway
Transdimensional Hallway
Help us transform the Machine Project gallery into a transdimensional hallway.
We’re building an installation in the form of an office hallway which will divide the storefront into separate rooms equipped with 19th century special effects. This new installation will serve as the theater set for the play See What Love The Father Has Given Us by Asher Hartman as well as several events responding to its unique parameters, including an immersive and interactive sound piece by Emily Lacy, a musical performance by Claire Cronin and a lecture about the Winchester Mystery House by Colin Dickey.
You can help make this all happen by contributing to our kickstarter campaign.
Pledges of $40 or more will reserve you a spot in Asher Hartman’s play, which due to extremely limited seating is guaranteed to sell out very quickly.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/machineproject/transdimensional-hallway