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Jane Brucker Studio

Saturday, June 8

Performance of ‘Mirror” at LAMAG at Barnsdall Art Park

Participation is FREE - Registration is Required

In Collaboration with Jeremy Hahn and SkyE

Mirror is a 40-minute immersive performance experience that invites participants to reflect on the slow and temporal qualities of memory. During periods of witnessing and contemplation, participants engage with attentive awareness to experience personal and shared history. Through sound, text, and movement, the performers and participants create a dialogue between the physical and the remembered.

SkyE was raised by the neighborhood bluejays in a town you’ve never heard of and is a transdisciplinary queer artist, autodidact, and self-made person. Inspired by birdsong and improvisation, sky set their sights selectively on theater, opera, painting, circus, poetry, and film utilizing queer methodologies. Currently in residence at The Brewery Artist Lofts, Los Angeles. The adaptation required for climate change permeates the immediacy of sky's themes, and queer visibility inspires their prolific creations. The New Yorker said their leading role was ‘performed virtuosically’ in Hopscotch, a Mobile Opera. LA Weekly wrote of their flying through Hollywood Fringe:  'showstopping.' 

Jeremy Hahn (he/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, whose current research investigates the intentional design and practice of Queer Contemplative Pedagogy as a fluid praxis for artmaking, teaching, and performance. Their creative work includes solo durational site-responsive performance installations, poetry, and the facilitation of “Cultivating the Expressive Body,” a queer movement workshop investigating embodied art practices with J&S Arts. He holds a BA in Studio Arts from Loyola Marymount University, an MFA in Dance from California State University, Long Beach, and is a full-time lecturer in The Department of Theatre and New Dance at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

COLA 2024: City of Los Angeles Independent Master Artist Projects Visual and Design Exhibition

On view

Saturday, May 18 through July 20, 2024

Gallery Hours

11 am to 4 pm, Thursday - Saturday

Exhibition admission is free

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park

4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027

Excerpt from Jane Brucker’s Interview for LAMAG’s Gallery Guide… The new work created for COLA 24 started with my grandmother’s bed frame. My brother had it stored in his barn, and it was broken with parts missing since 1995. I have been thinking of it for a few years, but it seemed beyond repair. I felt a responsibility to make the bed into something for everyone living in LA. It seemed like we needed to rest and needed a place to rest. But of course, the bed is empty—because it seems like there is nowhere to find safety, calm, and peace.

I also have been deeply affected by my sister-in-law’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, so all the works in the exhibition are partly for her. My sister-in-law, Meca Wawona, was known for her environmental activism. The mirror I made for Meca is not reflective. It instead uses stained glass painting techniques to render a dense but delicate arrangement of painted redwood leaves and bright yellow of the silver nitrate stain. Here, the mirror cannot reflect the disappearing self, but it does invite the viewer to glimpse someone that I love and to consider the tragedy of losing vital souls whose work in the world is not done.

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