GYST DO IT! With Community-Based Art

GYST DO IT! With Community-Based Art

Annie Buckley's multidisciplinary practice embraces digital media, photography, collage, fiction, criticism, curation, and collaborative, participatory, and community-based art with an emphasis on art and social justice.

She is the co-founder of the web publication Radical Actions a project exploring issues and questions surrounding current social practices in contemporary art, education and teaching.

Annie is an Associate Professor of Visual Studies at California State University, San Bernardino, where she is also the Founding Director of Community-Based Art, an initiative in which students, alumni, and volunteers facilitate art at underserved sites that otherwise have no access to art, and the Prison Arts Collective, dedicated to facilitating art in prisons. 

She is the author of two books of fiction, several non-fiction books for youth on topics including racism, homelessness, and the arts, and over 200 articles, reviews, and essays in publications including Artforum, Art in America, The Huffington Post, Artillery, and KCET Artbound.

http://www.anniebuckley.com

Hosted by Kara Tomé

GYST DO IT! With the Museum of Broken Relationships

GYST DO IT! With the Museum of Broken Relationships

Guest is Alex Hyde, Director of The Museum of Broken Relationships. 

The Museum of Broken Relationships grew from a traveling exhibition revolving around the concept of failed relationships and their ruins. Unlike 'destructive' self-help instructions for recovery from failed loves, the Museum offers a chance to overcome an emotional collapse through creation: by contribution to the Museum's collection. Conceptualized in Croatia in 2010, the Museum has since toured internationally in 20 cities so far, amassing an amazing collection.

The Los Angeles location on Hollywood Boulevard was openend in May of 2016 by John B. Quinn. 

The Museum of Broken Relationships puts the stories of real people on display with an item related to their failed relationships. These personal stories reflect the entire spectrum of break-ups, from the devilishly funny to the traumatic tales of lost love. The collection shows how we all share the same problems, no matter our nationality or background.

GYST DO IT! With Nevermore Metro Immersive Arts Festival

GYST DO IT! With Nevermore Metro Immersive Arts Festival

Our guest is Brian Sonia-Wallace, the artistic director and co-producer of the NEVERMORE METRO Immersive Arts Festival, an all-day event on Oct 29, 2016 exploring the East San Fernando Valley along METRO’s Orange Line. Through the Festival, registered audience members travel on METRO, either as a guided tour or a choose-your-own-adventure, to literary performance spaces throughout the day. 30 of LA's best diverse voices, including Los Angeles Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodriguez, will participate.

In the world of NEVERMORE, special sites off the Orange Line are transformed by poets and the escaped works of Edgar Allan Poe, which have mingled with local legends and Mexican folklore. It is up to the audience to lay these poems to rest and release Poe’s spirit.

NEVERMORE is a project of Theatre Magnet, a subsidiary of Artist Magnet, and RENT Poet, in partnership with the Eclectic Company Theatre. 

Hosted by Kara Tomé

GYST DO IT! With Erica Larsen-Dockray

GYST DO IT! With Erica Larsen-Dockray

Erica Larsen-Dockray is an interdisciplinary artist and animator, teacher, double business owner, freelance graphic designer and web developer. She co-founded Calibraska Arts Initiative, a summer program bringing artists from California to small town Western Nebraska (where she is originally from) to teach multi-generational arts workshops.

Erica is adjunct faculty at her alma mater CalArts, in the Film/Video School’s experimental animation program, and a teaching artist at Inner-City Arts in Los Angeles, in media arts and animation for 2nd-12th graders.

Visit eekart.com for more information on Erica's art.

Her latest venture is launching SCV Adventure Play with her husband Jeremiah, creating spaces for children and adults which facilitate self-directed and unstructured play. They are currently developing a permanent play park in Santa Clarita Valley and planning a conference for the training of play workers. Visit SCV Adventure Play .

Hosted by Kara Tomé

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GYST DO IT! With What's On Los Angeles

GYST DO IT! With What's On Los Angeles

What's on Los Angeles is an exhibition listing App designed for viewing on mobile devices. Created and maintained by artists Jody Zellen and Brian C. Moss as a useful tool and service for the Los Angeles arts community.

Host Kara Tomé talks with Jody and Brian about how the idea to create this App came about, the challenges and potential rewards of creating a marketable service, and their plans for developing it further.

GYST DO IT! With Thank You For Coming

GYST DO IT! With Thank You For Coming

Guests on the show are two core members of Thank You For Coming, Laura Naguera and Blake Besharian.

TYFC is an artist-run restaurant that is home to an interdisciplinary artist residency program. Each month, a new artist is selected to work on their ideas as well as make and serve food in the context of their proposed project.

Past residencies include The Heretics Kitchen presented by artist collaborative The Order, exploring food, fiber, labor and feminist history through the presentation of famine foods – simple peasant staples of bread, potatoes, beans, vegetables, and ritual feasts. 

With Special Meal, diners chose from a menu of “last meals” requested by prisoners on death row.

Thank You for Coming is volunteer-run and also hosts workshops, performances and special events. TYFC is located in Atwater Village, Los Angeles and open Wed-Sun. for lunch and dinner.

www.thankyouforcoming.la

Hosted by Kara Tome

GYST DO IT! With Automata

GYST DO IT! With Automata

Automata is dedicated to the creation, incubation, and presentation of experimental puppet theater, experimental film, and other contemporary art practices centered on ideas of artifice and performing objects.

Automata's programming seeks to radically redefine and re-contextualize the notion of object performance, locating it at the intersection of contemporary performance, media, visual art, sound art and experimental writing.

Guests on the show are co-founders/co-directors Janie Geiser and Susan Simpson and associate producer Miranda Wright.

Hosted by  Kara Tomé.