WORK IN PROGRESS
JASMINE ORPILLA + MARK GOLAMCO + JOBEL MEDINA
LAX FESTIVAL AT MOCA
Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 7:30pm
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) / Ahmanson Auditorium
250 S. GRAND AVE LOS ANGELES
In a joint effort to support Los Angeles-based artists in performance, LAX Festival and The Museum of Contemporary Art are thrilled to present three artists, each sharing daring new work in development at MOCA on Grand Ave. The evening features three artists working across movement, sound, and the voice forefronting process and experimentation.
Jasmine Orpilla, (Oro/Plata/Mata)(beauty/brutality/breadcrumbs) 10 mins
Gateway gestures and voicings to stave the cognitive dissonance of unwelcome pattern recognition, on time for Filipino-American history month. Based on true but forgotten events.
Mark Golamco, The Ghost of Ted Dragon 25 mins
“In our current time in which issues of identity are often overly simplified, I believe it’s important to tell more complicated stories of the lives and adversity that people faced. Both Ossorio and Ted Dragon were outsiders to the worlds in which they inhabited, and yet they made meaningful lives and creative work. I hope that The Ghost of Ted Dragon can show that their ghosts can be guides and guardians.”
Jobel Medina, Kill the Monsters 10 mins
“After my first solo performance, I realized I’ve killed a monster– an idea. Then, I felt stronger and more confident to kill another. I guess I’ve become violent in my pursuit for self-confidence; killing lies after lies until I’m made of only skills.”
This program was presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art as part of Wonmi’s WAREHOUSE Programs.
Wonmi’s WAREHOUSE Programs is organized by Alex Sloane, Associate Curator of Performance and Programs, with Amelia Charter, Producer Performance and Programs and Brian Dang, Programming Coordinator.
Jasmine Orpilla is an internationally awarded Ilokana/x-American composer of contemporary performance and experimental operatic sound installations in which she activates her lifelong study of folk dance, ritual, combat systems and indigenous music of the Philippines, against the contemporary American framing of the 1st-generation, imperialist military culture of her own childhood. While centering the voice of the Filipinx body within her energetically intense solo practice as a research-based multi-instrumental/multilingual performer and writer, Jasmine Orpilla’s work serves to humanize the intersectionality of the Fil-Am body in full agency. She has performed at major art institutions and theatres nationally and worldwide.
Mark Golamco is an artist who was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, worked in New York City and currently lives in Los Angeles. A classically trained Viola player, he received a BA in Art from UCLA and an MFA in Painting from RISD. His musical background and visual art education led him to create performances that combine his original music with artwork that ranges from painting, drawing, dance and video. He has performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Judson Memorial Church, Cafe Dancer, Human Resources Los Angeles, PAM Residencies, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Palm Springs Art Museum, and REDCAT.
Jobel Medina is a Los Angeles-based choreographer, dancer, and performer known for his dances, David, My Goliath, premiered at REDCAT and Kill The Monsters, previously shown at MOCA. He has toured nationally and internationally as a dancer for Ate9 Dance Company (2017-2022), and has worked as a performer with artists such as Tino Sehgal at The Hammer Museum; Simon Mcburney with The LA Philharmonic at The Walt Disney Concert Hall; Christopher Bordenave at The San Francisco Symphony Hall. Additionally, he has appeared in commercials including Calvin Klein, Lexus, OnStar, Adidas, as well as in multiple music videos including Anderson Pak, Noah Cyrus, Perfume Genius. Jobel received his Masters in Fine Arts at the California Institute of The Arts and has taught movement workshops at CSULB, CSULA, CSUF, CalArts.
