New Pyramids review in Art In America

New Pyramids For the Capitalist System at Dumbo Arts Center, received a thoughtful review in the June issue of Art In America. You can read it on their site by clicking here.

Summer News 2012

Projects

Venice Beach Biennial (July 13-15th). Lisa Anne Auerbach and I are collaborating on a project for this event, a part of the Hammer Musuem’s Made In LA exhibition. Details soon.

Writing for Artbound

I’m a columnist over at KCET’s new transmedia project Artbound.

Every two weeks I’ll be putting up new stories.
My interest includes writing about non-institutional, freaky, challenging, offbeat artworks/projects/happenings. I hope I can find enough to share.
My first story is about Michael Parkers steam egg.

New Pyramids For the Capitalist System

Performance at LA City Hall during Occupation 10/11 (performance photo Lisa Anne Auerbach).

One of two acrobatic performances completed at Los Angeles City Hall by untrained acrobats, during Occupation of City Hall .

Blockades: With Collaborators at DPLA & Review LA Times 4/3/09

Charles Talks With Women at Recruiting Center About Suicide Rates Among Soldiers”, 2009. Pencil on paper. 41.5 x 60 in

Review of JOAAP in XTRA Magazine by Matthew Timmons 3/2010

For Xtra magazine, Matthew Timmons wrote this thoughtful long review/retrospective on the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest (that I co-founded, and formerly co-edited) back in 2010.

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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.