GYST DO IT! With 50NYork Gallery

GYST DO IT! With 50NYork Gallery

Artist Brian Mallman created 50NYork Gallery as a constantly evolving art experiment that investigates how art is created, displayed and interacted with. The gallery exists as an altered abandoned gas station sign on the corner of Avenue 50 and York Blvd. in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park.

50NYork works to inspire self-propelled public art projects. Many of these projects happen outside the gallery space and are designed to self-replicate and regenerate. The 50NYork concept is designed to be adopted, adapted and duplicated in any physical space that is ignored, forgotten or abandoned.

Hosted by Kara W. Tomé

GYST DO IT! With NELAart

GYST DO IT! With NELAart

Guests are the founder of NELAart, Brian Mallman and its current executive director Cathi Milligan. Both are artists who have been residents of the area for many years and have been instrumental in building and sustaining a stong arts community in the Northeast District of Los Angeles.

Brian runs an alternative gallery called 50NYork and Cathi runs The Glass Studio, a store and education space, both located on York Avenue in Highland Park.

NELAart Organization is comprised of galleries and arts organizations that are dedicated to increase the visibility of the thriving arts community in the area. The neighborhood is home to more than thirty galleries, alternative arts spaces and arts organizations and countless artists live and work in the area. NELAart provides a resource to share information and ideas, and assist in promoting galleries, organizations and artists.

NELAart organizes a popular artwalk every second Saturday of the month and publishes a monthly newspaper, the NELAart News.

Visit - nelaart.org

Hosted by Kara W. Tomé

GYST DO IT! with 11:11 A Creative Collective

GYST DO IT! with 11:11 A Creative Collective

Guests are Addy Renteria and Erin Stone, founders of the 11:11 Collective, whose mission is to make the San Fernando Valley in California become a strong and independent artistic community and a flourishing destination for innovative art.

Since 2009 the collective's exhibitions and events have seen tremendous growth and they are in the process of becoming a non-profit organization to facilitate even greater success. 

The Fill in the Blank project is their new catalyst for supporting artists in the creation of major murals throughout the valley, with community support.

Hosted by Kara Tomé

GYST DO IT! With Corrie Siegel of Star Tours

GYST DO IT! With Corrie Siegel of Star Tours

Corrie Siegel is an artist, curator and educator committed to using the arts as a method of personal philosophic exploration and a tool for community building.

Her projects have been profiled in the Los Angeles Times, Mouse Magazine, and Flash Art International. She has partnered with the LA Philharmonic, LA County Museum of Art, Barnsdall Art Center, Armory Center for the Arts, and the Corita Art Center to create and implement cultural educational programming. She is currently a Six Points Fellow.

Her recent project, Star Tours, was a participatory exhibition located within a 16 foot truck, which traveled to sites throughout Los Angeles. Star Tours was a nomadic initiative intended to draw connections between local communities and cross-cultural narratives of the Jewish Diaspora. Her exhibited work referenced cartography, graffiti and Los Angeles iconography to explore identity and place. Visitors were invited to participate in the project in a variety of ways.

Hosted by Kara Tomé

GYST DO IT! With The Los Angeles Museum of Art

GYST DO IT! With The Los Angeles Museum of Art

Alice Konitz talks about her art project, the Los Angeles Museum of Art, located just outside her studio in Echo Park. As an extension of her sculptural practice, she built the 13 foot long structure to house site-specific installations by fellow artists.

Hosted by Kara Tomé

GYST DO IT! With On The Road

GYST DO IT! With On The Road

Guests are Danielle Rago and James Michael Tate, two of the originators of On the Road Project.

On the Road (OtR) is a yearlong series of exhibitions and conversations that highlights contemporary architectural practice in Los Angeles. OtR is a platform for new ways of thinking and making that engages both a discipline and culture with contemporary ideas about architecture, design, and art.

Hosted by Kara Tomé

GYST DO IT! With WOAH

GYST DO IT! With WOAH

Sharsten Plenge, of We Open Art Houses (WOAH) a Los Angeles-based creative agency and idea hub transforming open spaces through ephemeral visionary projects since 2012.

WOAH envisions underutilized and off-the-grid spaces as opportunity for experimentation.  A not-for-profit initiative and sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, WOAH works in tandem with artists, multimedia brands, and property owners to orient pedestrian activity and create experiential environments in unexpected places. 

Hosted by Kara Tomé

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 Marc Pally

GYST DO IT! With Marc Pally

Artist Marc Pally is an expert in the field of public art, having curated, planned and managed dozens of nationally recoginzed projects. He is the Artistic Director of GLOW, Santa Monica, which in three installments has become one of the largest and most popular one-night art events in California, and beyond.

GLOW is an all-night cultural experience featuring original commissions by international artists that re-imagine Santa Monica Beach as a playground for thoughtful and participatory artworks. The 2013 event took place on September 28 and attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors.

GYST radio host Kara Tomé worked on GLOW as the Project Coordinator for CalArts Community Arts Partnership's contributions to the event, including Lead Artist (and GYST founder) Karen Atkinson's interactive video piece.

Kara talks to Marc about his career in public art and they reflect on the experiece and success of GLOW.

GYST DO IT! With High Desert Test Sites

GYST DO IT! With High Desert Test Sites

Aurora Tang from High Desert Test Sites, discusses the history of the organization and the recent receipt of non-profit status after a decade of programming.

High Desert Test Sites (HDTS) supports experimental art that engages with the local environment and community. Scattered along a stretch of desert communities in and around Joshua Tree, California, HDTS provides a place for both fleeting and long-term experimental outdoor projects that challenge traditional conventions of ownership, property, and patronage. Most projects will ultimately belong to no one and are intended to melt back into the landscape as new ones emerge.

High Desert Test Sites engages in year-round programming and events including a semi-annual weekend event that invites artists to install or perform temporary projects around the area.

Sixty artists will participate in the HDTS 2013 event that will occur in Joshua Tree and travel a total 700 miles with artists projects installed all the way to Albuqurque, NM.

www.highdeserttestsites.com

Hosted by Kara Tomé

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 Carousel

GYST DO IT! With Carousel

Artists/collaborators Gabriela Salazar and Mary Choueiter will discuss their on-going curatorial project CAROUSEL.

CAROUSEL is an exhibition experiment. It is a venue on a turntable. It is a nomad. It is an anachronism. Surpassing its time and usefulness, CAROUSEL is cheap, familiar, a little stubborn, and begging reinterpretation.

Regular one-night-only ”openings” showcase an artist and their use of a mechanical slide projector.

Hosted by  Kara Tomé.

GYST DO IT! With PlantBot Genetics

GYST DO IT! With PlantBot Genetics

Collaborating artists Wendy DesChene and Jeff Schmuki created PlantBot Genetics, a parody company that satirically looks at the possible evolution of plant species due to the consequences of modern agricultural practices, including GMO’s. The artists create public interventions featuring their hybrid, robotic plants, including ‘Monsantra,” through the PlantBot Art Lab, an eighteen-foot trailer they converted into an off-grid, mobile exhibition space and classroom; the Greenhouse Field Lab, a solar powered portable green house ‘laboratory” for site-specific education and experimentation; and gallery and museum shows. 

PlantBot has been displayed around the U.S. and the world, including in Egypt and Austria. The artists have been in residence at the McColl Center in North Carolina and the Hafnarborg Art Center in Iceland, and will create projects at the Landscape Laboratory at Buitenwerkplaats, Amsterdam and the KulttuuriKauppila Art Center in Finland.

Hosted by  Kara Tomé.

GYST DO IT! With Yuval Sharon of The Industry

GYST DO IT! With Yuval Sharon of The Industry

The Industry presents new and experimental productions that merge music, visual arts, and performance in order to expand the traditional definition of opera and create a new paradigm for interdisciplinary collaboration. The Industry aspires to be regarded on a national level for premiering the most exciting and experimental new work in the country.

Artistic Director Yuval Sharon joins host Kara Tomé in conversation about the groundbreaking company that is “reshaping L.A. opera” (Los Angeles Times)

https://theindustryla.org/

Hosted by  Kara Tomé.

GYST DO IT! With Miranda Wright of Los Angeles Performance Practice and The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts

GYST DO IT! With Miranda Wright of Los Angeles Performance Practice and The Center for Sustainable Practice

Miranda Wright is the founder of two innovative organizations.

The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts (CSPA) provides a network of resources to artists and arts organizations designed to enable sustainable practices in art making through environmentalism, economic stability, and strengthened cultural infrastructure.

Los Angeles Performance Practice is an infrastructure comprised of a network of independent artists and companies who create groundbreaking theatrical experiences through cutting-edge approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement.

http://losangelesperformancepractice.org/

http://www.sustainablepractice.org/

Hosted by  Kara Tomé.

GYST DO IT! With Yarn Bombing Los Angeles

GYST DO IT! With Yarn Bombing Los Angeles

Yarn Bombing Los Angeles (YBLA) is a group of guerrilla knitters who have been collaborating since 2010 to stage public installations and performances to help expand the definition of public art to include self initiated, temporal urban interventions. 

Guest Arzu Arda Kosar, a founding member of the group, will discuss the origins of the collaborative and their recent project CAFAM Granny Squared - the yarn bombing of the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. Over 500 crafters from 50 states and 25 countries joined to crochet 12,000 granny squares to cover the facade of the building.

The project is designed to bring together a community of artists and crafters who otherwise might not have had access to exhibit their work in a museum. After de-installation, the crocheted squares will be sewn into blankets and distributed to the residents of Skid Row.

http://www.yarnbombinglosangeles.com/

Hosted by  Kara Tomé.

GYST DO IT! With Concord/P.S. 1010 Bus Project

GYST DO IT! With Concord/P.S. 1010 Bus Project

GYST Radio interviews members of the artist collective Concord, a trans-disciplinary collective, artist-run gallery, international residency program, and a home in Cypress Park, Los Angeles. 

Concord's two main interests have been collectivity and user-ship. Collectivity both as a process and an object of inquiry and user-ship through shows and events that engage audiences to explore, discuss, and interact rather than witness or view. As both an art project and a project space, Concord practices and provides a platform for critical models of art-making, culture-working, and community building.

The P.S. 1010 project is to convert a school bus into a mobile laboratory, gallery, and classroom. A roving gathering place for artists, teachers, and communities.

On the bus, artists will curate and create workshops, exhibitions, performances, and discussions as modes of collectively building and sharing knowledge—inviting local participants to respond and providing them with a platform to do so.

Hosted by  Kara Tomé.

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.