Sundown Salon #19: BAROQUE GEODE

DATE: April 4th, 2005, 2-9pm with dance performances at 4, 6 & 8 and reading at 7

FEATURING: Ken Ehrlich, Eve Fowler, Yoko Iida, Alice Konitz, Jeff Ono, robbinschilds, Alexis Rochas, Anna Sew Hoy, A.L. Steiner

An afternoon and evening of projects & performances responding to the Sundown house and gardens with special guests from new york, the dancers of robbinschilds. (the film by a.l. steiner is here!)

> in the cave >

XXX 'broque' a site responsive dance by robbinschilds. XXX

Broque (2004), a pychedelic study in the extra-pedestrain, investigates robbinschilds’ interest in everyday places, public spaces, hotel hallways, camouflage and filigree. The piece, originally performed in NYC in 2004, has been adapted for this evening’s performance at the dome.

Based on a common interest in dance and installation pieces, frequent collaborators sonya robbins & layla childs created robbinschilds in 2001. While studying dance at Bard College, San Fransisco born Sonya Robbins met native New Yorker Layla Childs,where the pair began collaborating. After graduating with B.A. degrees in choreography, Robbins and Childs co-founded the New York-based Kick Stand Dance collective with fellow Bardians Cary Baker, Abby Bender and Anna Luckey. The group opened Triskelion Arts in 2000, a performance and rehearsal studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. robbinschilds most recent production was the premier of Half Space, an evening-length quintet commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop in NYC, March 2005. robbinschilds is thrilled to be at the dome! robbinschilds@yahoo.com

Sonya Robbins, a native of San Francisco, graduated from Bard College with a BA in Choreography. In 1998 she co-founded KICK STAND DANCE, an experimental dance collective based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Since then Robbins has participated in numerous KSD productions, and has collaborated with architects, rock musicians and fashion designers.

Layla Childs grew up in New York City. She graduated from Bard College with a BA in Choreography. In 1998, Childs, along with four other choreographers, founded the KICK STAND DANCE collective who together opened Triskelion Arts, a rehearsal and performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Choreography: robbinschilds
Perfomers: Layla Childs, michael helland and Sonya Robbins
Original Music: The Malarkies
Costumes: Ellis Kreuger
Set design: a.j. blandford and robbinschilds
Video: AL Steiner

aj blanford (set) is a bi-coastal designer/builder. She studied art and architecture at Columbia University and currently resides in Los Angeles.
Blandford collaborates regularly with robbinschilds. www.mizfixit.net

michael helland (performer) is actually from Seattle. He graduated from the University of Washington in June 2004, with BA’s in Dance and in Community and Environmental Planning. In New York, he regularly works with Daniel Linehan and robbinschilds. Michael makes dances and has performed at various venues in Seattle and New York...he's secretly happy to be here instead.

> in the look-out >

XXX installation by alice konitz XXX

> in the dome >

XXX 'dreamcatchers' by anna sew hoy XXX

Dreamcatchers are tools for capturing and controlling dreams. They represent a belief in dreams as visions, as important signs that have an effect on life outside of sleep. I think that art can be thought of in a similar way. We have a mystical belief in the visions of artists. Their visions show us how to "see" the larger culture.

I was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and now I live and work in Los Angeles and New York. I think I've been to more consecutive Sundown Salons than anyone else.

XXX sculpture 'evil biology' by jeff ono XXX

Jeff Ono was born in 1973 in Los Angeles, CA. He attended The Cooper Union School of Art in New York City from 1991-94. His first gallery show was a three-person exhibition in 1998 at Feature Inc. NY. He has since been in numerous group exhibitions and has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, London and Padova, Italy. He lives and tries to work in Los Angeles.

XXX inflatable geodesic dress by colleen coghlan XXX

Inflatable Geodesic Dress in the Dome… Is a dress that inflates into a temporary pneumatic pod to rest in while moving through transitional areas or temporary situations; it is the ability to create personal space, not to seek it. It is made from a series of hexagons and pentagons fused together to create the surface. This structure is made out of vinyl, rip stop nylon and utilizes a battery operated pump to inflate.

Colleen Coghlan is a Los Angeles based designer and recent graduate of Art Center College of Design. Her work will be exhibited at Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) this summer.

XXX "reconstruction" (2005) a video by a.l. steiner XXX

A.L. Steiner was born and raised in Miami, FL. Her photo & video work has been published and exhibited internationally since 1997, most recently at Moda Fad (Barcelona), Starship (Berlin) and New Langton Arts (San Francisco). Steiner collaborates with Chicks on Speed, Nicole Eisenman on the publication Ridykeulous (Summer 2005) and is psyched to present her first photovideo collaboration with robbinschilds at the dome. She works and lives in New York City.

XXX 'late stage bucky inversion" by ken ehrlich XXX

Ken Ehrlich is an artist based in Los Angeles. His recent project, 'Elna Bakker Memorial Windmill,' was installed in Elyria Canyon Park as part of the October Surprise. He is the co-editor, with Brandon LaBelle, of Surface Tension: Problematics of Site. (Errant Bodies Press, 2003) and currently teaches in the art department at U.C. Riverside.

> in the gardens >

XXX a 'mountain' by yoko iida XXX

Untitled (Mountain) (2005) /on the small lawn on the hill in the garden / Medium: paper and mixed media / Yoko Iida will create a new sculptural installation at the site. A mountain, a mound or a pile will be installed near a medium height tree on a lawn on a hill in the Sundown garden.

Yoko Iida is an artist based in Los Angeles from Toyota, Japan. Her recent work is temporal, transportable, and site-specific. Her work will be exhibited at Shoshana Wayne Gallery this summer.

XXX video portraits of each guest by eve fowler XXX

eve fowler is creating an archive of all of the sundown salons with a 15 second video portrait of every person that attends each event.

Eve is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from Yale and is included in the collections of S F Moma, The Smithsonian and the New Museum.

> attached to the house >

XXX 'aeromads' by alexis rochas XXX

serving as a threshold and continum between the terrace and the cave, a semipressurized shape inhabiting the operable skylights. The almost-inflated shape would record pressurized interaction between the two spaces, a sequences of slight breaths.