by Alicia | Mar 17, 2015 | KCET Los Angeles, News, Writing
Vireo is a new opera composed by Lisa Bielawa on a libretto by Erik Ehn and directed by Charles Otte, featuring 16-year-old soprano Rowen Sabala. A collaborative project of KCET and Cal State Fullerton’s Grand Central Art Center, Vireo is being created expressly...
by Alicia | Mar 9, 2015 | KCET Los Angeles, News, Writing
Somewhere on Interstate 210, speeding through the California landscape, I looked off into the distance and realized that this view was made for travelers. It was a sunny day, and artist Jenny Yurshansky and I were on our way to her show “Blacklisted: A Planted...
by Alicia | Mar 2, 2015 | KCET Los Angeles, News, Writing
Let’s make my story into a documentary! Just vote here: http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/vote/vote-manifest-destiny-billboard-project-vs-da-vinci-apartments-controversy.html Meanwhile, read the story. . . There’s a stretch of Interstate 10 from...
by Alicia | Jan 28, 2015 | KCET Los Angeles, Writing
There’s an important difference between collaborators and twins. The former invest time in getting to know each other, slowly over time intuitively syncing up to each others’ rhythms, ways of thinking, and creativity. The twin is an entirely different...
by Alicia | Jan 6, 2015 | KCET Los Angeles, News, Writing
Artist Charlie White is invested in the project of American adolescence. Fascinated by the commodification of desire and how this mechanism operates under capitalism, White’s art practice focuses on the teen girl. To White, she is the most powerful bodily form...
by Alicia | Dec 13, 2014 | KCET Los Angeles, News, Writing
Brian Getnick is an integral part of Los Angeles’ multi-faceted performance art community, and he does a little bit of everything — including codirecting “Native Strategies,” a journal and performance art platform created with Tanya Rubbak, and...
