ARTE: FANTASY

Happy to finally debut this after such an amazing time last week at the premiere party.  Tiffany Gouché releases the short film Fantasy, the title track off her recent EP.  This short film serves as an ode to the city of Los Angeles and specifically the Leimert Park district with its rich cultural history and often misrepresented beauty within.

The free form 'Fantasy' depicted in this non-fiction piece leaves much to the imagination as Tiffany envisions a world where generosity, gratitude, deep connection and selflessness, all elements of unconditional Love, reigns supreme.

    

 

DIRECTED BY CALMATIC

Produced by SQAADHAUS & EARTHTONES MUSIC GROUP, LLC

Written & Performed by Tiffany Gouché 

Executive Producer Vatana Shaw

Creative Direction by Frederick Arnold 

Choreography: Christopher Bordenave & No)one Art House

Wardrobe Design by Whitney Alix

Shot & Edited by CALMATIC

Track Produced by MDNSGN

    

"Fantasy" is also available on iTunes:

https://itun.es/i6By6t7

    

ARTE: SAY HER NAME

Happy to speak to writer Chaedria Labouvier and share my perspective with Elle Magazine about the #SayHerName movement and Black women who are preyed upon by the police.

To say that it's mentally draining would be an understatement. It's a combination of that and being mad as hell. These things are happening so quickly and so frequently there's not enough time to process feelings, thoughts, and emotions. The other day I had a conversation with an artist whose work deals with value and it dawned on me recently after having the police drive behind me for a few blocks this week that the body that I inhabit has no value in this country. They aren't seeing that I am a business owner who employs people who live locally, that we all pay taxes, that I have been referred to as a pillar in the community etc., To see value in me would mean you would have to acknowledge my story first but on first sight these things are not present and what they do acknowledge (my body, my skin) has no value. 

What makes this idea even more frustrating is that once you're murdered they erase your life in the media (history): Who you are, the things that made you a respectable citizen in society, the things that make you human. I hate that when we see these hash tags that we can not mourn the loss of someone that didn't deserve what happened. Instead we have to defend the life, morale, and character of these women and men. So yeah, I'm mad but not defeated and not giving up. The best way I know how to honor the lives of those slain to police terrorism is to continue to live, continue to thrive, continue to be active in the spaces we exist in, and to come up with ways where we are the authors of our own history. 

To read the full article click the screenshot above.

ARTE: LAUREN HALSEY

Lauren Halsey is in the "Coney Art Walls" project this summer. 

ARTE: Where are you POTUS

I need for the president to speak out and up on national police reform and police terrorism.

ARTE: POOR DOG GROUP

One of our favorite LA based performance art groups is seeking help in producing their next big performace.

Group Therapy looks at the inner workings of Poor Dog Group's members as they commit to receiving a year of real therapy with a licensed professional. Together they will listen, receive, and acknowledge each other as they work through almost 10 years of collaboration, friendship, marriages, divorces, physical fights, booze, rehab, falling outs, relocation and so much more.

Help Poor Dog Group raise funding for their new show HERE

PDG Fund Raise 45 from Poor Dog Group on Vimeo.

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ARTE: LETS TALK: EJ HILL

We had a magical night with EJ HILL last Saturday.  The open conversation between Hill and everyone else in the room was engaging to say the least, in the case of this emerging performance artist the best way to describe the night was "he was present"

Recorded live via U-stream the night of the conversation.

Above images courtesy Treyvon X

ARTE: Andre D. Wagner x Business Insider

Read Andre's interview in Business Insider Austraila

ARTE: F#CK THAT

a million times yasssssssss

ARTE: HAILE GERIMA X YETUT LIJ

Filmmaker Haile Gerima is raising funds for his next film, watch the indigogo campaign now and donate!

ARTE: KENDRICK LAMAR

ARTE: MIGUEL X WILDHEART CHAPTER I

ARTE: Muchiri Njenga

 Mũchiri Njenga in Future Lab Africa's, Past African Future Exhibition exploring the multiple cultures of African technology through mediums of scultpture, installation, video, and sound. Find more on Mũchiri Njenga HERE.