Events:
April 30-May 6, 2007
Department of
Architecture and Urban Design
Kano Museum (Shiogama, Miyagi, Japan 2005) photo: Daici Ano
Body: Hitoshi Abe
Apr 25 – Jun 6
Perloff Gallery
Gallery hours: M-F, 9am – 5pm
Free Admission
“Body: Hitoshi Abe” focuses on a selection of six architectural projects designed by UCLA Architecture chair Hitoshi Abe with Atelier Hitoshi Abe from 1993 – 2005. The six projects represented in the exhibition include restaurant Neige Lune Fleur/S-Shinpei (MRP, 1999), Reihoku Community Hall (KAP, 2002), SHU-MAI (KTH, 2004), Sasaki Office Factory for Prosthetics (SOB, 2004), the restaurant Aoba-tei (AIP, 2005) and SSM (2005). The force of matter forms the concept for the exhibition.
JURIJ SADAR, Apartment House Gradaska, Slovenia, 2005
Lecture: Jurij Sadar
Wed, May 2 at 6:30pm
Perloff Hall, (Decafe) Room 1302
Free
Gallery Hours: M-F, 9-5pm
In 1996, Jurij Sadar and Bostjan Vuga established the architecture firm Sadar Vuga Arhitekti (SVA) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In the past ten years, Sadar Vuga Aritekti has positioned itself as one of the critical European architectural practices, with its production and communication design based on open, integral and inventive manner. Since its’ beginning, SVA has won eight competitions, has designed more than one hundred projects, of which twenty-two are built.
Department of Art
MFA Exhibition #2
Apr 19-May 3
New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center
Gallery hours: 9 am - 4:30 pm
Free Admission
The second of four exhibitions of work by 2006-2007 M.F.A. candidates from the UCLA Department of Art.
Department of
Design | Media Arts
Roy Ascott Lecture:
Syncretic Fields
Art, Mind and the Many Realities
Mon, Apr 30 at 4pm
Broad Art Center,
EDA (Room 1250)
Free Admission
Department of Ethnomusicology
Lecture:
Thoughts on Emerging Issues and Trends in Jazz Composition
James Newton, composer, flutist, and conductor
Fri, May 4 at 3pm
Gamelan Room
Schoenberg Music Building
Free Admission
Department of Music
UCLA Percussion Ensemble
Mitchell Peters, director
Mon, Apr 30 at 8pm
Schoenberg Hall
Free admission
Premiere performance of the winning composition from the UCLA Percussion Ensemble Contest, as well as Steve Reich’s “Six Marimbas,” Christopher Rouse’s “Ku-ka-Ilimoku,” and Tom Gauger’s “Past Midnight.”
Graduate Composers Concert
Tue, May 1 at 8pm
Jan Popper Theater
Free admission
DMA Recital
Hana Yoo, violin
Thu, May 3 at 8pm,
Jan Popper Theater
Free admission
Senior Recital
Wan (Wen-Chi) Chang, oboe
Fri, May 4 at 5pm,
Jan Popper Theater
Free admission
DMA Recital
Lorenzo Trujillo, trumpet
Sat, May 5 at 8pm,
Jan Popper Theater
Free admission
Senior Recitals
Sun, May 6:
5pm - Joel Brothers, saxophone
8pm - Jeffrey Peters, trombone
Jan Popper Theater
Free Admission
Department of World Arts and Cultures
MFA Upstarts:
Situ-Asian
Jia Wu, choreographer
Sat, May 5 at 8pm
Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater,
Glorya Kaufman Hall
Admission: $15; $5 students
In “Situ-Asian”, Jia Wu directs 23 artists and draws on 15 years of training in Beijing Opera, Tai Chi and Chinese folk dance to create biting social commentary in contemporary inter-media dance works; hypocrisy in international political relations and the changing role of women in an era of rapid modernization are among the themes explored on the program. “Situ-Asian” features original music by Derric Spivak, David Kariagianis and Jeff Hayman, three video collaborations with filmmakers Mariel Louise McEwan, Cari Ann Sham, Pina Yoldas, and animator Xiaojin Bao.
UCLA Live
Sylvie Guillem & Akram Khan
Sacred Monsters
Wed-Thu, May2-3 at 8pm
Royce Hall
Admission: $68, 52, 42
$20 UCLA students
Current Events in Theater, Film and Television
Fowler Museum
Exhibitions
El Anatsui: Gawu
Apr 22-Aug 26
"It's hard to think of many found-object artists who have achieved work as intricately made, culturally resonant and visually sumptuous as El Anatsui's." Art in America, May 2006
Originally from Ghana but living in Nigeria since 1975, El Anatsui is one of Africa's most influential artists, recently named by Britain's The Independent as one of the fifty greatest cultural figures shaping the continent. His work dwells on the continent's history, drawing simultaneously on traditional African idioms and contemporary western art. This exhibition includes eight large-scale works that make use of large quantities of discarded everyday objects such as bottle tops, flattened food tins, and cassava graters woven together to create magnificent sculptural 'tapestries,' which recall the Ghanaian tradition of weaving kente cloth.
Butabu: Adobe Architecture of West Africa
Photographs by James Morris
Apr 22-Jul 15
For centuries, complex earthen structures, many of them quite massive, have been built in the Sahel region of western Africa—Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Togo, Benin, Ghana, and Burkina Faso. Made of earth mixed with water, these buildings display a remarkable diversity of form, human ingenuity and originality. In Butabu: Adobe Architecture of West Africa, lush, large-scale photographs by British photographer James Morris offer a stunning visual survey of these structures, from monumental mosques to family homes.
Architecture of the Veil:
An Installation by Samta Benyahia
through Sep 2, 2007
Makishi: Mask Characters of Zambia
through June 17
Free Admission
Events
Fowler Out Loud: Arepa
Thu, May 3 at 6pm
Cinco de Mayo Tours
Sat, May 5 at 2 and 3:30pm
Lecture by Bill McLennan:
The Transforming Image: Painted Arts of the Northwest Coast
Sun, May 6 at 2pm
Hammer Museum
Exhibitions
Ola Pehrson, Hunt for the Unabomber, 2005. Mixed media installation and video. Collection of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Hammer Project:
Ola Pehrson
through May 27
Ezra Johnson, What Visions Burn, 2006. DVD. 22:27 min. Courtesy of Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles.
Hammer Project:
Ezra Johnson
through May 6
