November 15, 2008
Noon til 10pm

On November 15th, 2008 Machine Project is seizing control of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

We will be orchestrating ten hours of performances, workshops, and events which experiment with LACMA’s encyclopedic collections and expansive grounds. Featuring over 60 projects dispersed across the seven-building, twenty-acre campus, visitors are encouraged to explore the museum in new and unexpected ways.

For a list of free workshops we’ll be offering, click here.

For a downloadable PDF of the program of the days events, click here.

For a detailed and semi-accurate schedule of events go here.

Click here to download the poster.

And we’ve got a couple rehearsal videos over here.

Projects sited throughout the museum include a robotic Netsuke head, a glow-in-the-dark unicorn, a man in a suit made of pepper cans, an audio tour of ambient gallery sounds, and a painting reproduced in flowers. A bank of elevators will be inhabited by trios of musicians including a gamelan orchestra, mariachi band, and fife and drum core. Visitors can try to solve the interactive murder mystery with clues scattered across the museum grounds. The BP Grand Court will become a temporary Mission Control Center with electronics workshops, a video feedback installation of the day’s events, and an evening screening with performances and readings. There will also be craft workshops, mobile musical aliens, gallery massages, a handout of invisible performances, replicas made from LACMA’s trash, a lost nose, and much, much, more.

Artists participating in the project include: Ambient Force 3000, Jacinto Astiazarán / Fritz Haeg / Flora Wiegmann, Matthew Au, Barbershop Hum Quartet featuring Michael Deragon & Fahad Siadat, Joshua Beckman, Jason Brown, the Center for Tactical Magic, Kelli Cain, Cheryl Cambras, Brian Crabtree, Ken Ehrlich, Fallen Fruit, Fatal Farm, The Faraway Places Ensemble, Jim Fetterly, Fol Chen, Corey Fogel, Liz Glynn, Hooliganship, Jessica Z. Hutchins and Dawn Kaspar, Stephanie Hutin and Florencio Zavala, ing, the Institute for Figuring, Lewis Keller, Walter Kitundu, Emily Lacy, Douglas Lee, Karen Lofgren, Lucky Dragons, Anthony McCann, Christy McCaffery & Sara Newey, Monome, Takeshi Murata, Annie O’Malley, Michael O’Malley, Adam Overton, Nate Page, Kamau Patton, The Public School, Casey Rentz, Douglas Irving Repetto, Daniel Richert and Mathew Timmons, Phil Ross, Kelly Sears, Laura Steenberge, Robin Sukhadia, Ryan Taber, Jason Torchinsky, Holly Vesecky, Kristina Yu, and exciting special guests.

The Machine Musical Elevator will feature performances by: A brass trio with Chris Kallmyer / Luke Storm / Shelly Suminski, a Bulgarian vocal trio featuring Kate Conklin / Rose Fuller / Mae Kathauser, Marshweed and Special Guests: Jessica Catron / Peter Hirsch / Pauline Lay / Heather Lockie, Mike Robbins, a fife & drum core including John Barlog / Jackson Fledermaus / Jade Thacker, and more!

1 minute speed metal on the hour by: Mark Richards and Alexy Yeghikian

This project is co-funded by LACMA’s public programs and the Ralph M Parsons endowment.

One day only!! Tickets to the event are available for standard LACMA admission prices. Admission to the museum and show are FREE for all Machine Project members.