Lara Grant

Lara Grant 
Opening August 2nd, 7-10pm. On view until August 30th

Walking through a textile exhibit gives me a certain kind of frustration, this goes for almost any show. The pieces I see in front of me made of materials that look smooth, fluffy, delicate or heavy can only be determined as such through sight. Each time my interest is triggered by the thickness of a paint stroke or the drape of a fabric I get up so close that my eye ball almost touches the piece. I scan every millimeter for more hints of technique and material, so as I can virtually feel it without laying a finger down. While I am grateful for the spawning of this kind of hyper-awareness from deprivation, I still have a very hard time with the fact that I can not reach out and touch these pieces.

Push Reset is an collection where the work is meant to be touched, explored and worn by the person who comes upon it. Some having more to give back than their physical properties through sound generation and manipulation. There are many fibers and materials to explore, the items in Push Reset are the beginning, continuation and for some the conclusion of a lifelong need and want to be able to enjoy textiles the way they are meant to be.

Also Sarah Grant will be showing her interactive piece, Hot Probs, a chat application designed for the Subnodes project, an opensource initiative that enables people to easily set up a Raspberry Pi to create portable local area networks for anonymous, local communication. link subnodes below to http://www.subnod.es

Lara Grant is a textile artist, fashion technologist, designer, fabricator, and educator living in San Francisco. She acquired her BFA in Fashion Design in San Francisco, moving to NYC to focus on wearable technology and electronic textiles at NYU's ITP. Her experience over the years includes working in the fashion and costume world as a seamstress, pattern drafter and production manager and has worked on contracts for NASA, Victoria's Secret, TechShop and various innovative fashion and tech start-ups. She enjoys teaching and has developed several workshops and classes for a variety of events and institutions. After living in NYC post graduate school, Grant returned to San Francisco to start Chartreuse Circle, a company focused on costume and tech solutions. She has recently taken up a Senior Lecturer position in the Interaction Design Department at California College of the Arts and is developing the course, Wearable and Soft Interactions. She is currently working as a Fashion Technologist for the wearable tech company Agent of Presence. Her work has been shown at Mass MoCA, PS1, NIME (Oslo / Ann Arbor), GAFFTA, 319 Scholes, Maker Faire, CCA, amongst others.

Algorithmic Unconscious

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ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE)

creative reuse of refuse through recombination.

Analogous Projects is pleased to present ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE), a group show with works by Aricoco (Ari Tabei), Katherine Liberovskaya + o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi), LoVid (Kyle Lapidus + Tali Hinkis), Philip Galanter, Phillip Stearns, Pollie Barden, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Torino:Margolis (Jenny Torino + Ben Margolis).

ScrapCycle is an ongoing project devoted to the creative reuse of refuse. This annual one-night event has been reinterpreted as a group exhibition, ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE). In addition to featuring upcycled artworks and performances, workshops will take place throughout the month in order to underscore the participatory nature of the ScrapCycle series.

All events require a piece of refuse for reuse as the price of admission. Materials are used for on-site installations, directed toward local upcycling artists, or repurposed as holiday gift wrap. These action-based economic and environmental aspects of ScrapCycle refer to the act of reuse as requiring us to approach everyday decisions from a use-value perspective, which is in opposition to our collective exchange-value upbringing.

ScrapCycle places an exchange-value on upcycled and reused materials, in order to probe the environmental effects of economic perspective. By presenting concrete implementations of reuse and recombination, ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE) serves to liken the small pervasive effects of social sculpture, environmental activism, and economic perspective to a fine-tuning of interdependent parameters with global results. ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE) references complexity science as it relates to political economy, ecology, and methods of reuse and recombination (i.e., small-world networks, social systems theory, ecological systems theory, evolutionary computation, genetic algorithms, neural networking).

Presented by Analogous Projects

All events charge a piece of refuse for reuse as the price of admission.

PRESS MATERIALS

PRESS RELEASE: scrapcycle-PressRelease.pdf
MEDIA RELEASE: scrapcycle-MediaRelease.pdf
FULL PRESS KIT: ScrapCyclePressKit.zip
CONTACT: Marie Evelyn at Marie@AnalogousProjects.org

EVENT SCHEDULE

Friday May 7th (Exhibition Opening)
7:00 p.m. - Doors
8:00 p.m. - Ranjit Bhatnagar and the Glass Bees (Performance)
8:45 p.m. - Tom Vanderwall (Performance)
9:30 p.m. - Bora Yoon (Performance)

Sunday May 16th and Tuesday May 18th - Thursday May 20th
1:00-6:00 p.m. LandFilles Build (Collaborative Build with the Artists)

Friday May 21st
7:00 p.m. - Doors
8:00 p.m. - Katherine Liberskovaya + o.blaat (Performance)
8:45 p.m. - Katherine Liberskovaya + o.blaat (Performance)
9:30 p.m. - Katherine Liberskovaya + o.blaat (Performance)

Saturday May 22nd: Kids Workshops, Lecture and Tasting, Tutorial and Demo, Performance
11:00 a.m. - Repurposed Planters (Kids Workshop with Pollie Barden, Ages 5-9)
2:00 p.m. - Upcycled Gaming (Kids Workshop with Pollie Barden, Ages 10+)
6:00 p.m. - Questionable Edibles (Lecture and Tasting by Jenny Torino)
7:30 p.m. - Break Breadboards (Tutorial and Demonstration by Phillip Stearns)
9:00 p.m. - Torino:Margolis (Performance)
9:45 p.m. - Gunung Sari (Performance)