The World Tree (Ecstatic Energy Lab)-Colab.Performance @ CAI

The World Tree (Ecstatic Energy Lab) from curtis tamm on Vimeo.

Body Works: Five Senses (DivineBrick in collab. w/ Wes Johansen and Z.Vital)

Whereas watching  Izella Berman with Jean Paul Jenkins and Mitchell Brown

 

Whereas

 

 

DivineBrick in collab. w/ Wes Johansen and Z.Vital

“A Rosie Smell, Still Turns My Nose if Grown with Distaste”
game experience in three parts (grey 3)

Viewer this is your part of this game. A simple description to still allow the experience to be new.

Part one
When invited to the Chamber feel welcome to come along. The space you hold sacred around you will be respected, all that is asked from you is to exist at a moment with another force other than yourself. You are free to leave at anytime, until another is chosen. We are mirrors to each other.

Part two

Come closer to the figure(s) that move under the light. Come see this moment as a landscape in which you hover over. See yourself in these/ this figure(s) as floating world(s), only now able to see the pale blue delicate soup that you are. Harmony easily broken with any influence dropped in. Decipher your roots.

Part Three

Five with frogs follow the figure(s), the rest follow the five. Five lead us all to the next experience when this ones complete.

Photos by Andrew Hall

Parallax Beach-Parallax Scroll @ Highways Performance Space- Santa Monica, Ca

  

Severed moments of macrocosmic balance routinely underline human evolution. These moments intrigue, as modernity has alienated us from the immediacy of life. Perceptions of time become mercurial and subjective depending on perspective. Parallax Scroll will take the audience on a revisit through the emergence of life. A trip that re-exams light, language, and the development of society, ending in a space unresolved and recycled. All points can viewed when wading on a Parallax Beach.

PARALLAX BEACH's "Parallax Scroll" is a multi-media performance piece that bridges the abstract landscapes of sound, light, time, and movement. A collective of artists, each utilizing different mediums, come together to make this unique work. Wes Johansen creates a visual representation of abstract thought through digital video projection, edited live and synchronized to synthesizers. Mike Meanstreetz uses avant-garde percussion and composition techniques tangling the participants of this ritualistic performance in a web of synesthesia . These elements are accentuated as josie j conveys transformation to witnesses through ritualism/ meditative movement, influenced partly by Butoh training and a background in performance art. Also performing in this piece are Zachary Vidal (saxophone/sampled noise) providing textured mood, and Brennan Lowe (movement) setting the wheel of this cycle into motion.

Brennan Lowe: Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, Ca

Most Honorable Ones,

It has been a great privilege to have the opportunity to work with Brennan Lowe.  Parallax Beach was and is the first venture into choreography for myself.  Brennan has been very patient and a worthy aide and contemporary.  Although Brennan has expressed his feelings of seeing me as a mentor, I have learned a lot from Brennan.  He has and always challenges me and pushes my view on art and art process. Because of this I am excited to share with you, fellow viewer, his solo performance.

-DBL

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Performer/ Performance Artist/ Installation Artist Brennan Lowe, also known as Parallax Beach's other performer/ dancer will be having a solo performance at Highways Performance Space this Saturday. Come and support this very gifted young artist before he goes back to the east coast to finish his BFA.

Traveling through absurd environments and alternate states of consciousness, Volatile is a multi-media installation and performance about the fragility of sanity and the contextual relativity of identity. Referencing determinism and questioning the existence of free will, both the visceral and conceptual components of cognitive processes are pursued.

Brennan Lowe explores the malleability of the human mind from internal and external influences through meditation and performance inspired by Butoh, Fluxus, and German Expressionism. Thomas Stoeckinger examines the nature of perception by creating installations that reinterpret light and space

Saturday, January 11 @ 8:30pm
$15 general admission

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Parallax Beach @ Pehr Space: Parallax Scroll Final Performance

Witnesses,

This was the last time Parallax Beach performed Parallax Scroll.  The night was filled with great acts.  I personally was hypnotized by the sounds and visuals of Beru.  I hope to see more of this very very talented lady.  I always gush for Intimatchine so...TV Crime Lords were fun.  Three cute boys making noise, much fun.  

Without further a due here are some stills of the night.  Brennan has got his character and moment down.  Stay tune for some audio.  

Parallax Beach @ PehrSpace Sean Carnage Monday Nights

Soft Forms,

Coming off the Epic Highways show, Parallax Beach is excited to present a much more appropriate, raw and dirty version of "Parallax Scroll".  We are honored to be performing at one of the last nights of Sean Carnage's influential Monday Nights in this City of Angels.

This show is poignant not only because of this, but because it will be the last time we will be performing "Parallax Scroll".  With the monumental departure of Brennan Lowe from the troupe we will move on to a new piece. 

I myself am excited and honored to be sharing the stage, for the second time, with Intimatchine. 

Hope to see you there.

Deciphering the roots,

-DBL

 

*flier by Wes Johansen

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Sneak Peak: Demo Track for Parallax Scroll

listeners,

Listen:

PARALLAX BEACH - "Parallax Scroll" promo demo - intro

PARALLAX BEACH: Parallax Scroll @ Highways

Friends,

Excited to invite you to PARALAX BEACH's debut of "Parallax Scroll".

-DBL

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Severed moments of macrocosmic balance routinely underline human evolution. These moments intrigue, as modernity has alienated us from the immediacy of life. Perceptions of time become mercurial and subjective depending on perspective. Parallax Scroll will take the audience on a revisit through the emergence of life. A trip that re-exams light, language, and the development of society, ending in a space unresolved and recycled. All points can viewed when wading on a Parallax Beach.

PARALLAX BEACH's "Parallax Scroll" is a multi-media performance piece that bridges the abstract landscapes of sound, light, time, and movement. A collective of artists, each utilizing different mediums, come together to make this unique work. Wes Johansen creates a visual representation of abstract thought through digital video projection, edited live and synchronized to synthesizers. Mike Meanstreetz uses avant-garde percussion and composition techniques tangling the participants of this ritualistic performance in a web of synesthesia . These elements are accentuated as josie j conveys transformation to witnesses through ritualism/ meditative movement, influenced partly by Butoh training and a background in performance art. Also performing in this piece are Zachary Vidal (saxophone/sampled noise) providing textured mood, and Brennan Lowe (movement) setting the wheel of this cycle into motion.

Invoking the zeitgeist of the night's multi-disciplinary performance,
        elle mehrmand opens with a solo piece
divined of haunting sing-song and movement, foreshadowing what is to come.

Passing through the theater's entry way, the night's performances will be initiated both spatial and temporally by a traversable light and sound installation by the artist Lazer Blade.

Parallax Scroll- Repetition Makes the Group [excerpt] from DBL on Vimeo.