13ThingsLA: March 26
True Minds for your art calendar
Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstadter at CTRL Gallery
Good stuff interrogating the nature of reality, drafting the mundane into the quest for the extraordinary, interdisciplinary feminist sorties, and the personal art of not one but two iconic filmmakers. Check out CTRL Gallery, the Hammer, CMay Gallery, Webber Gallery, Royale Projects, Roberts Projects, Track 16 Gallery, James Fuentes Gallery, Torrance Art Museum, Book Soup, Laguna Art Museum, Fellowship, and Debbie Allen Dance Academy. Plus as Desert X continues, they’re doing Meet-the-Artist afternoons like this one on March 30.
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Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstadter at CTRL Gallery
Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstadter: Superradiance opens Saturday, March 29, 6-9pm at CTRL Gallery. I love a multichannel video installation, especially when the imagery and sound offers a universe of fanciful, uncannily organic sound and motion vibrations suitable for getting lost in. So I’m excited for this presentation organized by gallery director Paul Young and curator Neil Mendoza, in which artist, musician, and researcher Memo Akten and multidisciplinary artist, writer, and curator Katie Peyton Hofstadter bring the variably evocative aesthetics of “dance, poetry, music, generative visuals, and artificial intelligence,” in a work that explores the increasingly porous borders between body, mind, and machine consciousness. “This is where AI allows us to reconnect with the human, the organic and the natural by leveraging the neurological phenomenon of embodied simulation—our brain's tendency to unconsciously mirror the movements and experiences of others,” reads the text, and I definitely want to know more about that. I caught a bit of Akten and Hofstadter’s work at the Venice Biennale in 2024 and at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography as part of Getty's PST, and it’s as enchanting and strange as it sounds. On view in Chinatown through May 3; instagram.com/ctrl.gallery.la. —SND
Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstadter at CTRL Gallery
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