An Antagonist’s Guide To The Assholes Of Los Angeles

Over at Llano Del Rio…

AN ANTAGONIST’S GUIDE TO THE ASSHOLES OF LOS ANGELES
Free Guide #3, Available Now-  Co-produced with Content-Object.
Cultivate a position.

An Antagonist’s Guide To the Assholes Of Los Angeles traces a history, theory, and sites for creative agonistic social and political practice in LA. The guide annotates over 80 places; banks, businesses, politicians and polluters, war contractors, institutions, a troll, a yeller, and a cruel mis-dial. The list was sourced through an open public call and research. The guide frames for its users sites worthy of creative exploration throughout Los Angeles. We hope your practice benefits from it.

The guide also includes short essays framing antagonism within Los Angeles’ social and cultural history; contributions by The Llano Del Rio Collective, Marisa Jahn, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Laura Pullido, and Jennifer Flores Sternad.

The guide is available for free to all residents of LA County. Guides may be found at designated locations, or may be requested (by county residents) by post by contacting llanodelrio@gmail.com while they last.

Anyone can purchse a guide by contacting Half Letter Press .

Locations to find An Antagonist’s Guide To Assholes of Los Angeles will soon include:
LACE
Southern California Library For Social Justice
The Public School
Mandrake Bar
Highways Performance Space
Machine Project
USC
Otis
Calarts
Art Center
CSULA
Claremont Colleges
Tribal Café
LA EcoVillage
Libros Shmibros
Human Resources
Hive gallery
Otherwild
Echo Park Film Center
The Last Bookstore
Laxart
Thank You For Coming

An Antagonist’s Guide to the Assholes In LA is the 3^rd free map/guide to Los Angeles by the Llano Del Rio Collective.  Past guides are A Map For An Other LA (sites of collectivist projects) and Scores For The City (locations for aberrant public behavior).

photo credit: Alice Cunt (with Ajax and Isaac Jorel Ledesma) , The satanic progression of a Diva obsessed, The satanic obsession of a Diva Possessed, March 2011, at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Photo by Takahiro Yamamoto and www.nativestrategiesla.com

Artbound Television

Following are links to three stories I put together for KCET’s Artbound which were  adapted into short form documentaries aired on TV.

Notorious Possession: Occupying Foreclosed Homes With Art

The Worker’s Rug: Fine Art From Day Labor

California Hot Tubbing: An Oral History Of The Steam Egg

Didactic Pyramid

Didactic Pyramid was an installation based on a performance instigated on Figueroa Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Two folks carry a third on their shoulders down a street for as long as they can. While being carried, the top guy gives everyone and thing a piece of his mind.

Household Revisited: Peaceniks and Treehuggers for Allan Kaprow Art As Life

For Los Angeles’ MOCA exhibition Allan Kaprow Art As Life I was invited to reinvent a work of Kaprow’s. I choose to interpret his 1964 happening Household.