You are invited to join us for Machine Project’s first Workshop Confuse-a-tron. At Machine Project we do all different kinds of workshops, and we thought it would be fun to do a few of them in one space on the same night.
Its like a workshop buffet, where you could do one to four workshops over teh course of the evening. The event will feature simultaneous drop-in sessions on making kimchi, converting melons into amplified drums, plant cloning, and the application (and styling) of tranimal drag makeup.
Tranimal Squeaky Blonde, Jer Ber Jones, and Austin Young trans-form participants into TRANIMALS. Visitors enter a Tranimal-assembly-line where they undergo a transformation with after-portraits by Austin Young. After the workshop, please join us at SOMETHING at THE STUD for a Tranimal after party hosted by Vivvyanne Forevermore, and Glamamore. Should be an excellent time to show off your tranimal make-up.
Plant Cloning Come with a few cuttings of your favorite plants to share and trade with others. If you’re new to the world of cutting and growing, come ready to start your own little plantlets with a variety of cloning methods that will be demonstrated throughout the afternoon. No experience or green-thumb required. With Denise King from the Exploratorium.
Kimchee Connie and Oghee “Granny” Choe will be lead participants through making their own batch of kimchi. They will introduce workshop-goers to the artful practice of fermentation and participants will leave with a giant jar of delicious kimchi.
Amplified Melons Casey Anderson and Chris Kallmyer introduce folks to the wonderful, exciting world of piezo-electronics! Participants learn how to make their own contact microphones, and insert them into watermelons, cacti, and everyday objects.
Machine Project (2003 - 2018) was an informal, non-profit, educational institution located in a storefront space in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles and a group of people working together to create, study and share new forms of culture and ways of living. We collaborate with artists, thinkers and local communities to produce non-commercial projects that investigate art, performance, technology, science, music, literature and new ideas for creative engagement. We believe an organization can be a machine for thinking together.
Casey Anderson (they / them) is designing and repurposing technologies to activate participatory practice, primarily involving explorations of sound, in diverse cultures and communities. Performances, exhibitions, and residencies include MOCA - Los Angeles (CA), ISSUE Project Room (NY), STEIM (NL), Atlantic Center for the Arts (FL), Mass MOCA (MA), The Walker Art Center (MN), and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (CA). They co-founded, and co-edited (with John P. Hastings and Scott Cazan), the Experimental Music Yearbook, and own and operate a wave. They currently live in Los Angeles, California, co-run Trade School with Arden Stern, and teach at KAOS Network and ArtCenter College of Design.
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