ACCELERATEDDDDDD: Works In Progress
Sunday, October 29 at 6:00 pm
NAVEL / 1611 S. Hope Street Los Angeles 90015
ACCELERATEDDDDDD showcased cross-genre contemporary works by four different artists from LAPP’s ACCELERATOR Program: Future Human Support Positions by Chelsea Zeffiro, Untitled Sisters Project by Mireya Lucio, Two of Pentacles by Daniel Corral, and Object Permanence by Daria Kaufman. ACCELERATOR is a program of LAPP which builds a community of independent artists who are actively seeking to resource and develop a current project.
Photos by Argel Rojo Vazquez
Daniel Corral is a mixed heritage Filipino-American composer/performer born and raised in Eagle River, Alaska. Based in Los Angeles since 2005, his creative practice draws inspiration from Marshall McLuhan’s definition of art as “exact information of how to rearrange one’s psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.” This manifests via combinations of pop culture and experimental music conceptual rigor; unique instrumentation; performances in outdoor and/or public spaces; microtonality; consideration of the relational values of performances; and pieces that address current issues like climate change, race relations, or online anonymity.
Corral taught at CalArts 2016-2020. In 2022, the city of Los Angeles awarded him an Individual Master Artist Project grant, after having declared him a Cultural Trailblazer in 2019. Past residencies include APPEX, Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, I-Park, the Banff Centre, Djerassi, and Loghaven. His music has been released by Populist Records, Orenda Records, Innova Recordings, the wulf. records, MicroFest Records, and independently. His MFA is from CalArts, where his teachers included James Tenney and Anne LeBaron. Corral is also Operations Director of the Grammy-winning PARTCH Ensemble, on the board of MicroFest LA, and Co-Artistic Director of the Now Hear Ensemble.
Daria Kaufman is a performer/choreographer working at the intersection of movement, text, and action. From phone-based audio oration to domestic object scores, to task-based performance installation, her practice is rooted in the body – its mutability and capacity for (un)making meaning. Daria’s work has been presented internationally at: Curtas de Dança, in scope of Festival Dias de Dança (Porto); Rua das Gaivotas 6, in scope of Encontro Bianual de Artes Performativas – (Re)union 2018 (Lisbon); Biblioteca de Marvila (Lisbon); Zaratan Contemporary Art Gallery (Lisbon); FAKI Festival (Zagreb); Pomona and Scripps Colleges; ODC Theater (SF), Cutting Ball Theater (SF), Joe Goode Annex (SF), NOHspace (SF), Mills College (Oakland), The Milkbar (Oakland), and on KQED Spark TV (SF Bay Area). With StratoFyzika – the Berlin-based intermedia performance collective – Kaufman has co-created and performed original works at B-Seite Festival (Mannheim), UferStudios (Berlin), Festival Atalaia Artes Performativas (Aljustrel), and CounterPulse (San Francisco). In 2015, Kaufman was nominated for the Isadora Duncan Dance Award (the “Izzie”) for Individual Performance. Her work has been supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, GDA Foundation, European Cultural Foundation, and Zellerbach Family Foundation. In addition, her projects have been awarded Artist-in-Residencies by Los Angeles Performance Practice, Atelier Concorde (Lisbon), DeVIR CApa (Faro), ÇATI Dans (Istanbul), Shawl-Anderson Dance Center (Oakland), and the Milkbar (Oakland). Daria holds a MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Mills College.
Mireya Lucio (born in Puerto Rico and living in Los Angeles by way of New York) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, director, and performer. After training as an actor (BFA Tisch/NYU; Moscow Art Theatre; MFA CalArts), Mireya developed a performance-making practice stemming from a love of dramaturgy and intuitive assembling. Mireya’s work has taken the form of dinners, lectures, walking tours, videos, stage shows, and game nights. Her full-length solo performances unravel timelines embedded with precise historical reenactment into musical extravaganzas: “Brandenburg Gate: The American Hits” (an episodic timeline of US presidential visits and foreign celebrity presence in Berlin, along with renditions of number-one Billboard Chart hits of the day), and “¡Con la boca es un mamey!” (a non-authoritative lecture-cum-personal revisionist history of Puerto Rico as a U.S. colony). Her collaborative practice with Sallie Merkel, Emotional Labor Co., weaves popular culture and academic inquiry into non-linear, transgressive studies of girlhood (as in Our-So-Called Sleepover, or, Freud and Jung Crash 1995 Through a Ouija Board), and creates transformative ritual via playful entertainment (as in The Commons digital series and the iterative Witches’ Cabaret). Her current project, Conversations with my Descendants via Sci-Fi Space Odyssey: a screenplay for the stage, is a live multimedia performance that fuses speculative fiction, memoir, and post-colonial essay as an embodied future archive of inheritance (performed at LAX festival in 2022). mireyalucio.com
Chelsea Zeffiro is a performer, choreographer, educator, and organizer based in Southern California. Her work is rooted in dance – expanded outward through experimental and collaborative practices which incorporate digital media, theater, design, and writing. At the core of her work is a desire to slow down time and interrogate the details of a moment; reframing scale and sequence to destabilize and transform something habitual or familiar.
Chelsea received her BA in Comparative Literature and French from the University of Southern California and an MFA as a Dance Fellow at the University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA) under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield and the mentorship of Jesse Zaritt and Beth Gill.
Chelsea has developed and shown work at Human Resources LA, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (La Jolla, CA), University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA), Institut Chorégraphique Internationale (Montpellier, FR), Theorist Fest (Austin, TX) and WoW Festival (San Diego, CA). Her recent evening-length works have been produced and presented by San Diego Dance Theater’s 2019 Live Arts Festival and by Los Angeles Performance Practice at the 2022 LAX Festival (Los Angeles, CA).
As an educator, she has worked with Coronado School for the Arts (dance and theater faculty), DISCO RIOT (teaching artist), University of the Arts (lecturer, capstone curriculum), Cal State San Marcos (Guest Lecturer), WoW Festival (Workshop Organizer/Teacher) and Lycée Louise Michel (TAPIF).
She will be developing her duet, Abstract Human Support Positions (which premiered at the 2022 LAX Festival) with support from Los Angeles Performance Practice over the course of the 2023 ACCELERATOR program.
