Language Garden #8: Martine Syms and Sophia Cleary

image credit: Simona Ferrari

Saturday, November 4
3pm to Sunset

at David Horvitz’s 7th Ave Garden
1911 7th Ave, Los Angeles

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Martine Syms
Sophia Cleary

ceramics smashing
and oysters
and crowbar
b.y.o.m. (bring yr own mezcal)

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Bring discarded ceramics to the garden on 7th Ave to smash into the garden. A collective fragmentation/disintegration event. A form unravelling event.

You can bring one piece or one-hundred pieces. Glazed or unglazed. Big or small.

Ceramics can be in any state: whole, damaged, already shattered in fragments.

You may have broken pieces that you normally would throw away. You may have pieces that you feel need to be set free for whatever reason...

We will be collectively breaking them into smaller pieces to add color into the garden ground. And to add you into the garden. And to add to the ‘discarded ecology’ of the garden.

We will use tools designed by Terremoto for the garden.

Followed by reading and an oyster feast.

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Martine Syms is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Syms has shown extensively, including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, and ICA London. She is in a band called Aunt Sister and hosts Double Penetration, a monthly radio show on NTS. She alos runs Dominica Publishing.

Sophia Cleary is a queer, genreless, childless & anti-disciplinary comedian, writer, and artist working with jokes, video, dance, music, and more. She has presented her work in NYC at the Center for Performance Research, Danspace Project, the Chocolate Factory, Dixon Place, The Kitchen, and e-flux and in Los Angeles at the Hammer Museum and Human Resources Gallery. Sophia is the founder and coordinator of the works-in-progress series REHEARSAL and former co-editor for Ugly Duckling Presse's performance annual Emergency INDEX. She is one-half of feminist punk band Penis, a collaboration with Samara Davis.

Language Garden is programmed by Corina Copp, Sophia Le Fraga, and Joseph Mosconi, with interventions/germinations from David Horvitz.