Hauser Wirth & Schimmel

Das Hund @ Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Nov 10

7 November 2016

As part of the Das Hund – Alternative Living Tour, Das Hund will be performing at Los Angeles’ Hauser Wirth & Schimmel on November  10.

The London-based duo, including Samuel Levack & Jennifer Lewandowski, works across performance, installation, music, poetry, video, painting and sculpture. They’ve been on tour at various locations across California, starting on October 14 with a a two-week residency at the outdoor desert living experiment Wagon Station Encampment run by Andrea Zittel. 

The performance project invites guest musicians to collaborate with the duo, and is part of Hauser & Wirth’s live series After 5. Joined by guitarist Nicholas Pankhurst and musical director Bryan Mills, the shows will feature “spoken poetry and songs – accompanied by live instruments and looped drumbeats remixed using analogue tape delays, with the artists’ films projected across the set.”

See the Hauser Wirth & Schimmel website for details.**

 

 

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Das Hund – Alternative Living Tour, Oct 14- Nov 14

12 October 2016

Samuel Levack & Jennifer Lewandowski present a fundraising exhibition Das Hund – Alternative Living Tour taking place at various locations around California beginning October 14 and running to November 14.

Their tour will begin in Joshua Tree National Park with a two-week residency at the outdoor desert living experiment Wagon Station Encampment run by Andrea ZittelDuring this time, the duo will shoot footage for their new film and will be travelling with writer Ellen Mara De Wachter who has been commissioned to write the script “contextualising the journey against the backdrop of the concurrent US presidential election.” They will also be working on the content for their band Das Hund‘s debut record which is being released in 2017.

The tour will carry on to Los Angeles, where they will perform at Actual Size LA on November 5 and Hauser Wirth & Schimmel on November 10 as part of live series After 5, joined by guitarist Nicholas Pankhurst and musical director Bryan Mills. The performances will feature “spoken poetry and songs – accompanied by live instruments and looped drumbeats remixed using analogue tape delays, with the artists’ films projected across the set.”

Visit the artist webpage for more details.**

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X-TRA Summer issue launch @ Artbook at HWS, Jul 17

15 July 2016

X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly is launching its Summer 2016 issue with a talk by cover artist Mark Hagen at Los Angeles’ Artbook at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel on July 17.

The event is “a toast” of the summer issue of X-TRA and includes discussion with LA-based artist Hagen about his Artist’s Project in the issue with Aaron Moulton, curator at Gagosian Gallery.

A new Artist Edition by Mark Hagen for X-TRA will be launched, refreshments served, and the galleries at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel will be open.

See the FB event page for more details.**

Mark Hagen @ Artbook at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Jul 17

Acrylic through burlap, artist frame (titanium adonized with Diet Coke). Courtesy the artist and Malborough Chelsea, New York.

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