In Our Own Spaces

The Situationist movement was a radical, Marxist-inspired avant-garde movement in mid-20th-century Europe that sought to critique and subvert consumer culture and the spectacle of modern life through art, theory, and revolutionary praxis. The Situationists' practice of wandering, or dérive, was a method of drifting through urban environments without a fixed goal. Allowing one’s movements to be guided by the emotional and psychological effects of the surroundings, we uncover hidden dynamics of the city and challenge the routines imposed by capitalist society.

Join us in this radical act followed by a community picnic to process our experience.

📍LA BREA

Strategy is part calculation and part inspiration, part objective conditions and part empathetic intuition. Strategy is the ordering of actions within a situation that reveals its contours via a form of engagement.” Wark— Leaving the 20th Century

If our present moment engagement gives form to social and creative practices, how has the creative practice become bastardized by the “spectacle” of our modern script? Can we strategize artistic and community practices to engage more meaning in our lives and in society? Join us in exploring how we free ourselves from this script to allow space for fugitive evolution.

📍ECHO PARK

In Our Own Spaces collage night!

📍VENICE

Are you creating work, or is your work creating you? Delve with us into the strange loops of creation and contentment, the liberation of embracing the process, and the attempts to control the uncontrollable which keep us disconnected from reality, and each other.

📍WEST HOLLYWOOD
SALON INTENTIONS

What desires stir in your inner landscape? Where do you bump up against the reality of unfulfilled dreams? Where are your outer and inner worlds at war? Come together to explore these barriers and how we can take action to create the worlds we envision.

📍HIGHLAND PARKSALON INTENTIONS

David Wojnarowicz was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and activist prominent in the East Village art scene. We will be playing his 1989 audio tape journals, Cross Country in which David shares his dreams, fear of death, experience with AIDS, sex, and his environment during two separate road trips he took to the American Southwest.

📍  WEST HOLLYWOOD

Come investigate the pervasiveness of our alienation from ourselves, others, and the earth. How do we build bridges of connection? Is art one of those bridges? As artists, how do we root our practice in connection?

📍  MOUNT WASHINGTONSALON INTENTIONS

Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Thomas uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions, developing a method to transport water. Just as he is ready to leave Earth, Thomas is intercepted by the U.S. government, and his entire plan is threatened. We are excited to discuss the film’s existential and surreal themes!

📍  EAST HOLLYWOOD

What do you need to let go of? What are you still searching for? It’s easier, it’s comfortable, to avoid what we fear then to chase what we want. That’s how we become stuck.

📍  HOLLYWOOD

We are throwing it back to our first Salon with bring a work-in-progress!! If you can bring it, it’s not too big!

📍  LOS FELIZ

How does art respond to the suffering we witness? This salon will explore the role of the artist in times of strife and conflict.

📍  SOUTH CENTRAL 

If the work scares you, shocks you, or makes you want to hide in a hole, bring it. ☠️ 

📍  ECHO PARK 

Bring that work that you just hate, despise, want to stab, and set fire to…

📍  HOLLYWOOD 

The very first salon: Bring a Work in Progress.

📍  WEST HOLLYWOOD