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 and performances by Michael ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
