Touch Praxis is a collaborative project exploring touch as a time-based medium and co-creative knowledge practice. Through workshops, reading groups, interviews and touch improvisation, we research and practice different dimensions of tactility, from the high stakes context of viral transmission and police violence, to the consent negotiations woven through every part of our lives.
Jasmine Orpilla’s ORASYON: A multilingual experimental operatic installation, is sung and danced in solo, sound-activated courtship choreography, inspired by the poetry of Jasmine’s grandmother’s Ilokano call & response dallot love-song tradition and the protective incantations of Jasmine’s albularyo-practicing grandfather from the Philippines.
CASUAL returns! CASUAL provides Los Angeles artists with an opportunity to show a work in process.
Interest Forms Now Open!
Due September 2, 2022
Beck+Col, Los Angeles based artist duo, worked on their piece Cyber Forest drawing the connection between a for-profit system that is not in our best interest as a species, and the depletion of essential natural resources that has directly led to the current climate crisis and loss of biodiversity.
Also, an inaugural artist participating in Research + Development: For Parents/Guardians, Mireya Lucio, shares a Conversations with my Descendants via Sci-Fi Space Odyssey: a screenplay for the stage. This live multimedia performance fuses speculative fiction, memoir, and post-colonial essay as an embodied future archive of inheritance concerned with the body/mind/spirit as technology.
DaEun Jung’s work Norri will be at L.A. Dance Project’s LAUNCH: LA showcase for resident artists on July 30 & 31st.