K-PST is an expanding, dynamic resource for artworks and ideas that shape California's fertile contemporary art landscape. K-PST's growing archive is comprised of unique curated programs, artworks, commissions, interviews and related documents. To honor California-native John Cage's centenary and liberating influence, K-PST's inaugural thematic performance program, RE:COMPOSITION, considered how current compositional practices and tools enable artists from all disciplines to re-conceive or reconstitute aspects of their art production.Featured artists included: JD Beltran and Marc Barrite; Sandro Dukic; Joan Jeanrenaud and Paul de Jong, and Joan Retallack with Michael Ives. K-PST was featured in the Getty Center's initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 - 1980, and Performance and Public Art Festival.
I N T E R R U P T U S (2008 - 2012): By Joan Retallack
A Procedural Lecture for Two Voices, composed by Joan Retallack in homage to John Cage’s principle of interpenetration and non-obstruction. Texts by Michael Ives and Joan Retallack. Performed by Michael Ives and Joan Retallack who collaborated on a unique realization of the piece.
Evolution (2010-12) by JD Beltran with music by Marc Barrite and technical assistance by Scott Minneman
A digital film synchronized with live electronic music, Evolution is inspired by the migration of ideas between San Francisco and Los Angeles (late 1940s - 1960s) that formed the basis of the Visual Music movement. Creative influences include: Oskar Fischinger, James and John Whitney, Jordan Belson and Harry Jacobs. Evolution at Southern Exposure, ...
Bar Hopping (2012): Composed and performed by Joan Jeanrenaud and Paul de Jong
Commissioned music and film that playfully rethinks visual and musical influences from the mid-1950s to the present including cello concertos and contemporary experimental composers. This remote collaboration is between two leading artists residing on both coasts of the U.S. Interview with Joan Jeanrenaud on Bar Hopping: Interview with Paul de Jong on Bar ...
Still Movement: Homage to Nan Hoover (2012): By Sandro Dukic
A commissioned performance installation inspired by Hoover’s photographic work from 1980. The title describes the occupation of her interests while the event manifests the contours of her core ideas. A video installation by Nan Hoover is featured in Exchange and Evolution at the Long Beach Museum of Art. Interview with Sandro Ðukić on Still ...
