By Daily Press staff
The 18th Street Arts Center presents international performance artists Mariel Carranza and Alastair MacLennan in a free performance of new works in a gallery exhibit.
The performance works will be staged on Saturday, Aug. 19, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and the gallery exhibit will run from Aug. 19 to Aug. 24. The week-long event is the first in a month-long series of international artists presented in Depicting Action, an exhibition of time-based live art.
Carranza is a native of Peru residing in Los Angeles. She has come to recent local acclaim with depictions of process as performance. In her recent work “Corners,” Carranza used wool collected from her South American birthplace to weave an elaborate form that fit both herself and the surrounding architecture of the gallery space for several consecutive days. For this event, Carranza will be laying with an animal carcass resting atop her. The performance will explore an awareness of interacting with a dead animal that people have a definite concept of (i.e. — with preconceived idea of consumption). The artist hopes to engender different levels of understanding, evoking violence used by us and against us at the same time.
MacLennan is a long-time member of Black Market International and currently teaches at the University of Ulster, Belfast. His dark, meditative and moving “actuation” performances are known to carry on for many hours or days and have been exhibited internationally for more than 30 years.
Founded in 1988 in Santa Monica, 18th Street Arts Center is Southern California’s largest international residential art center of its kind. It is a nonprofit that supports artists and arts organizations dedicated to issues of community and diversity in contemporary society. 18th Street Arts Center is located at 1639 18th Street. For more information, contact (310) 453-3711 or, or go to www.18thstreet.org. Braille Institute rolls into town
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 12, 2006. Read the original PDF.