{"id":554,"date":"2011-09-20T17:46:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"gang-of-carp-ephemera-pacific-standard-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2011\/09\/20\/gang-of-carp-ephemera-pacific-standard-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang of Carp Ephemera (Pacific Standard Time)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA alternative arts organization, Carp, shows selections from its 1970s ephemera archives of contemporary art\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmailers, letters, photos, and other documentation\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfrom a cross-section of LA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early performance and media arts. Artists include Chris Burden, Vito Acconci, Kim Jones, Alexis Smith, Richard Newton, and Bruce Nauman. Carp encouraged experimentation in non-traditional venues for art like television and print, sponsored LA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first pop-up galleries, and organized a number of signficant public and private installations and actions. Carp was founded by Barbara Burden and Marilyn Nix in 1974, and was funded by NEA and private donors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Carp\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mix of installation, performance, television, video, print magazine and street influenced many experimental art organizations that have followed. As part of Pacific Standard Time, this exhibit reflects an under-appreciated but growing-in-importance aspect of contemporary art\u00e2\u20ac\u201dephemera. It includes the early and experimental work of both well- and lesser-known LA artists in the 1970s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the Oct. 8 opening, the show will be open Saturdays Oct. 15, 22, 29 from 1 to 5 pm, and by appointment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-554\" data-postid=\"554\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-554 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA alternative arts organization, Carp, shows selections from its 1970s ephemera archives of contemporary art\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmailers, letters, photos, and other documentation\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfrom a cross-section of LA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early performance and media arts. Artists include Chris Burden, Vito Acconci, Kim Jones, Alexis Smith, Richard Newton, and Bruce Nauman. Carp encouraged experimentation in non-traditional venues for art like television and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}