410 Cottage Home St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Thursday, August 16 at 5:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Ends Aug 17, 2018
Like a cave made out of purple and dark green walls. I roasted things in the oven and you picked at the vegetables like a bird. You’d squeeze the sponge hard so it wouldn’t sit wet and moldy on the counter. One time we drove to the Oregon Coast and I sat in the middle seat in the back.
Poison Remedy Scapegoat is an intra-acting ecosystem of people, sculptural elements and choreographed dance sequences. A collaboration between Olivia Erlanger and Nikima Jagudajev.
We wrestled in the sand and Mad lost the keys. Ned had AAA and we rode home in a tow truck, with a stop on the way at some kind of buffet style diner. Remember that huge lumberjack sculpture in the front? We contaminated each other and grew into ourselves, parting ways and again over time growing closer.
Time passes differently in PRS, night is longer than day, as the atmospheric elements change according to solar wind data streams. Portal sculptures interrupt the floor, standing next to objects of proposed intimate engagement. Visitors are invited to lie down on mattresses, eat cake and generally hang out.
With the angels, Ezra Fieremans, Mor Mendel, Laurel Atwell, Jordan Balaber, Devika V. Wickremesinghe, Gaunlett Cheng and systems design by Tommy Martinez.
Olivia Erlanger (b.1990, New York, NY) is a sculptor based in Los Angeles. Recent and upcoming solo projects include a solo project at MotherCulture, LA, mouths filled with pollen at AND NOW, Dallas, Body Electric, BMW Frieze Open Work commission at Frieze, London 2017, Dripping Tap at Mathew, New York and The Oily Actor at What Pipeline, Illinois. Recent group shows include Entangled Tales at Rupert, Lithuania, Annex at M+B Gallery, LA, New Human Agenda at AND NOW Dallas, TX, Wormwood at Ellis King, Dublin, Other People’s Things, Brown University, RI. Erlanger is the recipient of Open Work, a BMW Frieze commission. She was a fellow at IdeasCity 2017 in Arles, France and a visiting artist at Brown University in 2016. She co-authored Garage with Luis Ortega Govela, due out September 2018 from MIT Press, in addition to the self-published Hate Suburbia and Born Goth–which was included in Harvard Design Magazine’s Summer 2017 issue. Their documentary, Garage will premiere this fall.
Nikima Jagudajev (b. 1990) is a choreographer. Her work, expanding formal dance into the construction of open-ended socialities, has been presented at the Whitney Museum and Judson Church, in the context of 89+ at LUMA/Westbau (Zurich), Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai), Villa Empain (Brussels), and as part of the Marrakech Biennale (Morocco). She has worked with, among others luciana achugar, Olivia Erlanger, Asad Raza, Tino Sehgal, Mårten Spångberg and Gillian Walsh. She was assistant editor to the anthology Post-Dance (2017) and has published various essays.