San Fernando Road Concert

Daiana 4

2008-06-18T16:16:00.001-07:00

Daiana 3

2008-06-18T16:14:00.001-07:00

Daiana 2

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daiana

2008-06-18T16:13:00.001-07:00

stephen's photos of the san fernando road concert.

2008-06-13T01:06:00.000-07:00

Mark So performing his own "Don Lalo Magic [2 open rooms]" near San Fernando Road and Polk Street.

Laura, Jeff and Janice discussing Laura's "Cartographies of Water and Dust: Traversing historic Route 99"

Roadgoers Rob Frashure and Ama Birch basking in the space.

Four performing Mark So's score by standing in front of the north lot and facing away from it, both ears unmodified, sustaining simple activity (reading). See score here: http://stephenvandyck.com/don%20lalo%20magic.pdf

Ready to see the olive trees near San Fernando Road and Polk Street.

San Fernando Road used to be US highway 99 but was decommissioned in 1963 when I-5 was built.

Megaphones at hand!

Jade Thacker, "sun bathing." Near San Fernando Road and Polk Street.

Jade Thacker, "sun bathing."

Jade Thacker, "sun bathing."

bodycity (On San Fernando Road) under the 118 overpass.

bodycity (On San Fernando Road) under the 118 overpass.

Danielle Adair FOR SALE. San Fernando Road and Tuxford Street.

A diversion: Katie and I get caught up with billboard climbing.

Metrolink tracks near San Fernando Road and Tuxford Street.

Spectators at Danielle Adair's performance, San Fernando Road and Tuxford Street: Anna Oxygen, David P. Earle, Laura Vena, Janice Lee, Jeff.

Danielle Adair FOR SALE. San Fernando Road and Tuxford Street.

Katie and I playing Sara Roberts' game, “San Fernando Start Stop an' Go.”

Tucker Neel's “Untitled (American Flags along approximately 4 miles of the South side of San Fernando Blvd.)” This one is on San Fernando Road near Grandview Avenue.

Fallen Fruit and Islands of LA presenting LOVE APPLES at San Fernando Road and Avenue 26.

Fallen Fruit and Islands of LA presenting LOVE APPLES at San Fernando Road and Avenue 26.

Eric and Daiana enjoying LOVE APPLES.

Fallen Fruit and Islands of LA.

An audience member clearly upset that the Road Concert is nearing its end.

Jade Thacker's “Dedicated to those whose sole source of indignation is a messed up trifle" at San Fernando Road and Pasadena Avenue.

Jade Thacker's “Dedicated to those whose sole source of indignation is a messed up trifle" at San Fernando Road and Pasadena Avenue.

Eric holding his Stop an' Go prize and Trifle stick.

Jade preparing the goodies.

Score!

2008-06-11T14:29:00.001-07:00

Text for my piece:

Close your eyes as much as you feel comfortable doing, through a chosen length of San Fernando that you drive. Casually document the event.

--Eric.

photos from gerG.

2008-06-09T00:02:00.001-07:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/15649759@N02/sets/72157605510319656/

gerG

photos of potential performance spaces.

2008-06-08T15:03:00.000-07:00

San Fernando Road Concert program...

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Audience: For your experiential pleasure, I invite you to drive the length of San Fernando Road from north to south, stopping at 12 sites, and experiencing 8 pieces in your car between sites from 5:00 to 9:00 PM. The 20-or-so works are performances, installations, discussions and happenings designed with the goal of reimagining unused urban space and driving down-time. In Los Angeles there are massive amounts of land that everyone drives by but no one ever goes to, some spaces even as desolate and hidden from the populace as a rural mountain road. What if these places become the destinations to generate a new kind of LA experience, bringing meaning and attention to a collection of these less obvious destinations? This event is unapologetically LA; performance times are loose and overlap so you can be on your own schedule: to find parking, to stop at a drive-thru to get a smoothie from Jack in the Box, to get lost on purpose, to daydream or just to spend some good quality time with your car. The drive officially starts in Sylmar at the northern end of San Fernando Road at its intersection with the Sierra Highway, and ends in Lincoln Heights at its intersection with Pasadena Avenue before turning into Avenue 20. Please bring cameras, notepads, cell phones, tape recorders—any method of documentation you prefer. Submit all documentation of events to svandyck.sanfernando@blogger.com and it will be instantly posted on http://sanfernandoroad.blogspot.com.
—Stephen van Dyck.

PS- Note that some events start before 5. You don't need to be at these (or any) events right as they start, but you can if you want. They will already be in progress by the time the official concert begins.
Call me if you get lost or confused. 505-331-9588.

STOP #1  San Fernando Road/Sierra Highway     4:45 to 5:15
Stephen van Dyck “tub.” / introductory conversation
—GET DIRECTIONS HERE

CAR PIECES WILL BE GIVEN OUT AT STOP #1
Sara Roberts “San Fernando Start Stop an' Go”
Kyoung Kim “Terra Incognita”—DOWNLOADABLE HERE
Eric Lindley “Untitled Set of Performance Instructions”
Robin Myrick “The Murgatroid Cycle”—DOWNLOADABLE HERE
David P Earle “The Strip: An audio guide to the San Fernando Veldt.”
Laura Vena “Cartographies of Water and Dust: Traversing historic Route 99”
Josh Forbes, Anna Magnuson, Tucker Neel “Untitled (A Dinner)”

STOP #2  just south of 12723 San Fernando Road   3:00 to 5:45
Mark So
Don Lalo   |   Magic  [2 open rooms]
2008
SCORE DOWNLOADABLE HERE

STOP #3  east side of San Fernando between Polk and Astoria   5:00 to 5:45
Jade Thacker “sun bathing”

LOOK OUT FOR
Phil Stearns "on the political economics of resource motivated warfare"
(biking from the north to south end of San Fernando Road and back from 2:30 to 7:00)

BEGIN “The Strip: An audio guide to the San Fernando Veldt.” at San Fernando Road and San Fernando Mission Boulevard

STOP #4
bodycity (On San Fernando Road)
San Fernando Road/beneath 118 Freeway overpass   5:45 to 6:00

STOP #5 San Fernando Road/beneath 5 Freeway overpass near Tuxford Street    6:00 to 6:30
Danielle Adair “FOR SALE”

STOP #6 south/west side of SFR between Alameda and Brand   all day
Tucker Neel “Untitled (American Flags along approximately 4 miles of the South side of San Fernando Blvd.)”

STOP #7 San Fernando Road/Grandview Avenue    6:15 to 7:15
Daiana Feuer “clownin’”

STOP #8
Allison Carter “Play It As It Lays” 2425 N. San Fernando Road   6:45 to 7:15

STOP #9  San Fernando Road/Future Street       8:42 to 8:43
Tucker Neel “I've Learned To Stop Worrying.”

STOP #10  San Fernando Road/Avenue 26     5:00 to 8:00
Fallen Fruit and Islands of LA “LOVE APPLES”

STOP #11   San Fernando Road/Humboldt Street   7:45 to 8:30
Carlin Wing "Hitting Walls (v. iv)"

STOP #12  San Fernando Road/Pasadena Avenue 8:15 to 9:00
Jade Thacker “Dedicated to those whose sole source of indignation is a messed up trifle”

San Fernando Road Concert today!

2008-06-08T15:01:00.000-07:00

Participating Artists: Sara Roberts, Tucker Neel, Allison Carter, Danielle Adair, Hillary Kapan, David P. Earle, Carlin Wing, Mark So, Phil Stearns, Robin Myrick, Laura Vena, Kyoung Kim, Daiana Feuer, Jade Thacker, Eric Lindley, dance troupe Bodycity, activist art groups Fallen Fruit and Islands of LA, and others.

Curator: Stephen van Dyck

WHAT: An afternoon arts event organized to re-imagine unused urban space along 23 miles of San Fernando Road with experimental music performances, art installations, readings, discussions and carpool happenings

WHERE: The entire length of San Fernando Road’s 23 miles from Sylmar to Lincoln Heights, in unused public outdoor spaces such as on the sidewalk, between dumpsters, along railroad tracks as well as inside the audience’s cars as they traverse it. On June 5 a map of the event will be available at http://torrential.us/sanfernando.htm along with various downloadable art for the car ride

WHEN: June 8, 2008 5PM – 9PM

In Los Angeles there are massive amounts of land that everyone drives by but no one ever goes to, some spaces even as desolate and hidden from the populace as a rural mountain road. Curator Stephen van Dyck, grad student at CalArts, asks: What if those places become the destinations to generate a new kind of LA experience, still car-accessible but bringing meaning and attention to a collection of these less obvious destinations?

The San Fernando Road Concert shows work from over fifteen Los Angeles-based artists sporadically along the entire length of San Fernando Road’s 23 miles from Sylmar to Lincoln Heights, in unused public outdoor spaces such as on the sidewalk, between dumpsters, along railroad tracks as well as inside the audience’s cars as they traverse it.

A few days prior to the event, maps will be provided via the event website http://torrential.us/sanfernando.htm , stating an earliest and latest time and approximate location to find each artist’s work. On June 8th, from 5 PM to 9 PM, audience members are invited to print out these maps and drive the length of San Fernando on a loose schedule, stopping at each spot to experience an intimate interaction with and/or by each artist. The audience is encouraged but not required to come out of their cars at each artist’s spot. Works range from performances and installations to writings and discussions. The audience can choose how long they want to spend at each spot, skip spots or drive at different speeds between them. The most northerly spot will start first, and each spot will be later in the evening roughly the farther south each gets. Audience members are additionally invited to car pool with some artists between spots and to switch car pools at their leisure.