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DEC 15, 2012

’Suitable Video #5: Hits’ brings together a variety of recent video works, combining fact and fiction, narrative and optics, with an emphasis on entertainment. As a series of shorts, these 13 pieces build off one-another through relational logic and sequential ebb and flow. Some works are clustered by tone, aesthetics or technique, while others function essentially as palette cleansers for that which preceded it (see Jen Stark following Paul Nudd). The thematic thread through the collection is the presence of, or allusion to, evidence within a story, joke or optical freak out.

This screening marks the 5th iteration of Suitable Video and is the project’s New York debut. All of the artists or titles in the program have appeared in previous Suitable volumes, making it a sort of Hits collection.

Suitable Video is the occasional curatorial platform of Scott Wolniak, showcasing innovative video art through screenings, exhibitions and limited edition DVDs.

Hits
Total Running Time: 55 min.

1.Brett Tracy- Exhaust Stack/Cooling Tower Controlled Demolitions 2009 (11:04)
2. Young Joon Kwak- Still Moments 2010 (2:08)
3. Thorne Brandt- The Brain Terminator 2012 (6:34)
4. Charles Irvin- Truck Nutz 2010 (5:27)
5. Chris Collins- Pony 2010 (4:33)
6. Jessie Mott and Steve Reinke- Everybody 2009 (4:06)
7. Paul Nudd- Wurmburth 2001 (3:21)
8. Jen Stark- Tunnel Vision 2009 (:45)
9. Kirsten Stoltmann- Post-Nothing 2011 (2:40)
10.Eric Fleischauer- Art Appreciation, 2008 (2:32)
11.Jon Rafman with Nicholas O’Brien- Kool-Aid Man in Second Life: Interview 2010 (11:42)
12.Lauren Beck- Witch Kiln 2012 (1:16)
13.Eric Watts- L.C.D. 2012 (4:51)

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DEC 1 2012

Mutant Salon presents: Beautython II

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Saturday, December 1, 2012

Exhibition & Salon Opening: Noon-8PM

Performances: 8PM-11PM (Pizza & Margaritas will be served at 7:30PM, so come early)

Gayle and Ed Roski MFA Gallery, Graduate Fine Arts Building

3001 S. Flower St., Los Angeles, CA 90007

(Entrance on 30th St. between Flower St. and Figueroa St.)

Mutant Salon, in partnership with Collective Dean of USC Roski School of Fine Arts presents Beautython II, an art & music event celebrating Mutant Salon’s public opening.

Mutant Salon started this fall in the studio of Young Joon Kwak, given to her as part of USC’s MFA program in the Graduate Fine Arts Building. Part beauty salon, art studio, and exhibition and performance venue, Mutant Salon is a space for producing and unraveling ideas of beauty and transformation. For Beautython II, Kwak is bringing Mutant Salon from her studio into the Graduate Fine Arts Building’s 2,000 sq. ft. art gallery.

Kwak will display video, sculpture, installation, and collaborative artworks at Mutant Salon, where attendees will be offered beauty makeovers—including hair, nail, and makeup treatments, fashion styling, tarot readings, tattoos, and more. Mutant Salon’s team of artists will work together to create a highly personalized package of treatments that will make you rethink and rediscover your relationship to beauty, and make you over like never before. Beautython II will close with a music performance program featuring Xina Xurner, Rind, Pooper, and Selvas.

More info: mutantsalon.com