Volume Projects, with curators based in San Francisco and Los Angeles, has recently celebrated their first birthday with the release of a limited edition recording by Steve Roden called Vester Fields (sold out). They will continue to release editions, but they go quickly to those who are in the know…now that means you. Perhaps you may remember Roden’s One Stone. And Arcs and Ears. - that’s if you had the chance to view invisible.other, the exhibition yours truly curated last year at the New American Art Union (the gallery may still have a few copies of that recording on hand). Volume (and Overlap) are about to present a two-part program called Listen/Vision (you know this one is up MY alley!) which will take place at the San Francisco Art Institute on both March 21 and May 14. If you are in the Bay Area or plan to travel, mark your calendar now as these dates will certainly prove to be important sound-related events on the left coast.

I received an email which I would like to extend to any artists who need apply. “Household Revisited: Peaceniks and Treehuggers” is seeking your participation. A project by Robby Herbst, Outpost for Contemporary Art is presenting this performance in conjunction with “Allan Kaprow-Art as Life,” on view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA from March 23 through June 30, 2008.

“Household Revisited” needs you for what will be a daylong event occurring at a “lonesome dump out in the country”. As per Kaprow’s direction, there will be no spectators, only participants. Originally an action dialogue between the Men, the Women and the People, for this version you will be asked to help re-write elements of the score by personifying with dress and movement world peace or environmental transformation. The happening will include hands on workshops with choreographer Hana van der Kolk and sculptor Jessica Hutchins. The outcome will be some kind of kind of happening musical we create together.

Initial informational meeting for participants:

March 30th, 2:00-4:00 pm
at Outpost for Contemporary Art
6375 N. Figueroa Street (in Highland Park)
Los Angeles, CA 90042
(323) 982-9461

Find answers to your questions by downloading an FAQ sheet under ‘Robby Herbst.’

ON THE RADIO: Alfredo Jaar has always been one of those far-reaching artists. He deals primarily within the delicate cracks of the socio/political in his work. I met him years ago while he was showing at the Hirschhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden. He took my picture for a project he was doing at the time. It had to have been before 1989 (I had “hair”). Now he’s being interviewed by one of my favorite radio programmes on the planet. In the coming month I will also have my streaming debut on ResonanceFM (”The Art of Listening”) myself (tba). Enjoy.

London’s Troika has introduced ‘virtual gravity‘.
Even the MOMA has caught on.

Trailer for Todd E. Freeman’s Come Hell or Highwater

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