// Thursday, Aug 14

• Potential Bodies, at the space, Culver City. Last day!  Works from 14 artists at the intersection of aesthetic & anti-aesthetic practices. Curated by Allison Peck. Gallery open 11-am-4pm
• Good Vibrations, at Space 15 Twenty, Hollywood. Mineral & mediation workshop focusing on azurite and pyrite. Concurrent to Gridscape on view through Sep 2. 7-9pm
• Liz Walsh: Shadow Force, at Last Projects, Hollywood. Exhibition of new painting, sculpture, video, & installation rooted in the artist’s investigation of our relationship to the invisible. Details. Opening reception & performance: 7-11pm Through Sep 7
  

  Liz Walsh | at Last Projects

• LORENZO ABATTOIR / SOBERING / HHL / WET DREAM ASPHYXIATION, at MATA, Mid-City. Doors 10pm | Sounds 10:30pm

// Friday, Aug 15 

throwback Baseck x Joy Through Noise (Twin Braids) | Celebrate Everything at Complex.

• Avocados, at 1952 Clinton St., Echo Park. Three-day event with artist performances, sound art, video projections, installations, dancing… & avocados! In collaboration with Echo Park Rising Festival & Projector Projects, hosted by Jonathon Hornedo. Details. 12pm 8/15 – 8pm 8/17
• Swim Lapse, at 1/2 Gallery, Silver Lake. Works from Caitlin Ducey, Jacqueline Laurita Cortese, Thinh Nguyen. Opening reception: 8pm-12am
• CELEBRATE EVERYTHING: Xanopticon, Curtis Roads, M. Geddes Gengras, Cyrusrex & Baseck, Joy Through Noise, at Complex, Glendale. The experimental electronic night celebrates the sounds of the future tonight with Xanopticon, Curtis Roads, M. Geddes Gengras, Cyrusrex & Baseck, & Joy Through Noise. 9pm-2am

// Saturday, Aug 16

throwback Tonalism in Toronto June 2011 | Saturday at Sonos Studios

• KChung TV with Experimental Half-Hour at Made In LA, at the Hammer, Westwood. Produced through EHH, KChung TV broadcasts live on-site during museum hours, with programs streamed & archived at kchung.tv. This episode feat. Jennifer Moon & Robert Watkins, Eugene Kotlyarenko & Brent Cowley, Eternal Telethon, & Tim Leanse’s underground noise contest show, Get The Gig. 12-4pm
• Eternal Telethon: CCCLXV times V, at Hammer Museum, Westwood. Raising support for the creation of an artist retirement home at the Salton Sea, this telethon feat. performances from Adrian Tenney, Margie Schnibbe, Curt Gambetta, & Miggie Wong. Hosted by Johnnie JungleGuts, John Burfle, & Jen Bruce.  Join IRL in the Hammer’s lobby or tune-in to kchung.tv. 3-3:30pm
• Tonalism, at Sonos Studio, Hollywood. Inspired by La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela’s Dream House as well as Terry Riley, Yoko Ono & John Cage, Tonalism is a 12-hr immersive atmosphere synthesizing harmonious textures with visual elements. Audience encouraged to bring pillows, cushions & sleeping bags to lay amidst a 13- point surround sound system feat. live performances, video artists, & DJ’s.  Hosted by dublab. 6pm-6am
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  Nora Keyes at Coagula Curatorial

  Western Twilight, at Coagula Curatorial, Chinatown. Group show of four LA artists examining the nature of dreams, architecture, illusions, optics & space. Curated by Raven Servellon, with works by Leslie Lanxinger, Nora Keyes, Raven Servellon & Timothy Robert Smith. Opening reception: 7-11pm Through Aug 30

// Sunday, Aug 17

• Draw NELA: Closing Reception, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock. Closing event & culmination celebration for the community-wide art experiment by Brian Mallman. 2-5pm
• Honda | Schenck | Tiner, at The Bluewhale, DTLA. 9pm-12am

// Tuesday, Aug 19 

There Is No Beginning, There Is No End closing with Experimental Half-Hour screening | at MATA

• Les Figues at DTLAB, at Traxx Restaurant in Union Station, DTLA. The featured press for DTLAB’s Indie Press Cartel, Les Figues presents works by Christine Wertheim, Mathew Timmons, and Michael du Plessis. 8pm
• Closing Reception: There Is No Beginning, There Is No End & EHH Screening, at MATA, Mid-City.  Show closing with works by Nina Hartmann, Suzy Poling, Reuben Sawyer, & Christopher Reid Martin.  Screening from the vaults of Experimental Half-Hour, broadcasting episodes of avant-garde musicians & performance artists worldwide.  9pm

still from The Time Eaters | at the Hammer

// Wednesday, Aug 20 

• Harry Dodge’s The Time Eaters, at the Hammer Museum, Westwood. Video world premiere following a freshly-minted human’s orientation to earthly matters.  Followed by The Fudgesicle, a solo performative video casting Dodge as a fudgesicle in a barren, monochromatic setting. 7:30-9:30pm

// last-looks 

Berlin-based Manfred Pernice | at Regen Projects

• Gina Osterloh: PRESS ERASE OUTLINE SLICE STRIKE MAKE AN X PRICK!, at François Ghebaly, DTLA. The artist presents a series of works for the camera & photographic frame through the lens of a set of applied instructions. Through Aug 16
• Ideal Territory, at Cirrus Gallery, DTLA. Group show of works obliquely considering ‘territory’ itself—as domain, history, narrative, and site of comparison.  Curated by Elan Greenwald. Through Aug 16
• Manfred Pernice: BBREILAND, at Regen Projects, Hollywood.
 Also on view Scott McFarland’s Simultaneous Contrasts.  Through Aug 16
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  Mark Hagen, To Be Titled | at Richard Telles

  The White Album, at Richard Telles, Mid-Wilshire. Group show curated by Gladys-Katherina Hernando feat. nineteen LA artists. Works in painting, video, sculpture, and performance evoke the search for the transcendental in California— exploring ideas of alchemy, animism, vitalism, magic, corporeal transformation, and wonder. Through Aug 16

• There Is No Beginning, There Is No End, at MATA, Mid-City. Group show with works by Nina Hartmann, Suzy Poling, Reuben Sawyer, & Christopher Reid Martin. Through Aug 20

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