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Anna Mayer: THE PEOPLE CONCERNED

posted May 8, 2010 in events , news , residents

If you're in LA, be sure to check out Anna Mayer's show, The People Concerned.  Anna completed a threewalls residency last summer as part of her ongoing collaborative, CamLab.  More information about the show is below.

THE PEOPLE CONCERNED 
Anna Mayer

4755 York Blvd Los Angeles CA 90042

May 8 - 30, 2010 
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 8, 7-10 pm
Closing Event: to be held at Tree and Space, Sunday, May 30 from 4-7 pm

For her solo exhibition, The People Concerned, Anna Mayer will present numerous works made for the gallery space as well as performance documents from events and moments occurring in the weeks leading up to the show. All works emanate from Mayer’s attempt to establish an “outcantatory” practice that uses language, fire, and intention to propose relationships encouraging embodiment and the rejection of discreet, linear modes of reception. Wavering between collectivity and introspection, the exhibition offers different access points for experiential discovery. The works included articulate a functional, insistently generative process taking place between people, elements, and hands touching objects. 

 In the month prior to the exhibition, Mayer hosts Self-Soothery, a series of pit-fires at different sites in Los Angeles. The project developed out of her interest in both the history of ceramics and occult traditions that use fire in a generative way. Self-Sootherymines the social space created by fire, as well as fire’s ability to produce shifts in time and knowledge. Artifacts from the firings will be on display in the gallery, as well as pre- and post-relic documents revealing how the potential of fire predates our desires but also emerges from them. Mayer’s interest in alternative firing techniques for ceramics brought her to architect Nadir Khalili’s work and its impact on contemporary disaster relief and utopian building traditions. Notes from her research inform a full-scale architectural model incorporating live bodies. This and all works in the exhibition use malleable materials—fabric, unfired clay, sand, and words—in order to speculate about what an individual can do for others and by herself. 

The exhibition’s closing event will be held at (Yoni) Tree and Space from 4-7 pm on Sunday, May 30. Bring your gendered offerings to the Yoni Tree and enjoy the ins-and-outs of prophecy through pleasure.