Blast! [4] is a lively garden party fundraising auction featuring iPod Shuffles programmed by The Guerrilla Girls and Christopher Williams AND an art auction of works by Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Euan MacDonald, Charles Gaines, Lisa Lapinski, Julie Lequin, T. Kelly Mason, Tom Recchion, James Welling plus a new portfolio by Catherine Opie.
My Barbarian is a Los Angeles based collaborative theatrical group consisting of Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade. The trio makes site-responsive performances and video installations that use theatrical play to draw allegorical narratives out of historical dilemmas, mythical conflicts, and current political crises.
Puttanesca is an LA-based four piece consisting of Joe Baiza (guitar), Ralph Gorodetsky (bass), Wayne Griffin (drums), and Weba Garrestson (vocals).
Pelicanman consists of celebrated LA bassist Mike Watt and violinist/vocalist Petra Hayden.
Stephanie Taylor is a sound artist who creates environments using rhyme to generate sculptures, songs and photographs. She writes melodies using found texts and she creates installations in which each object rhymes with the material with which it is made.
Tom Recchion, co-founded the LAFMS (the Los Angeles Free Music Society) a ‘disorganization’ dedicated to experimental music and art practices.