Sumi Ink Club, past exhibition

Sumi Ink Club

Sumi Ink Club is a participatory drawing project established in 2005 by Los Angeles-based artists Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck (the collaborative partnership "Lucky Dragons"). Following a set of simple rules, the club produces work cooperatively in open-to-the-public meetings that can be organised by anyone at any time. Sumi Ink Club meetings have occurred in a wide variety of contexts, including The Getty Center (Los Angeles), University of North Carolina, Rice University, Headlands Center for the Arts, Museo Universitario del Chopo (Mexico City), Gallery One (Melbourne, Australia), San Diego Museum of Art, Riverside Art Museum, Pasadena Museum of California Art, and The University of Texas Visual Art Center, as well as in countless informal situations around the world. http://sumiinkclub.com

Lucky Dragons & David Behrman/Ben Vida

SOLD OUT! Lucky Dragons' Luke Fischbeck opens his project room with a 4-cjannel sound environment and David Behrman/Ben Vida will perform in our gallery one night only. Also on view this night: Gamelatron Jalan Jiwo (final night) and Babyharvester's slice castle pizzeria and arcade. Free. RSVP list is closed. No admittance after 7pm. Lucky Dragons is an ongoing collaboration between Los Angeles-based artists Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck. Active as a band since 2000, they are known for their participatory approach to making music, radically inclusive live shows, and their playfully humanistic use of digital tools. Fischbeck and Rara have presented collaborative work in a wide variety of contexts, including the Whitney Museum of American Art (as part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial), the Centre Georges Pompidou, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, London's Institute for Contemporary Art, The Kitchen and PS1 in New York, REDCAT and LACMA in Los Angeles, MOCA Los Angeles, the 54th Venice Biennale, and the Smithsonian's Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among others.

Lucky Dragons, Ooga Booga Bongo Music

Sumi Ink Club is a participatory drawing project established in 2005 by Los Angeles-based artists Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck (the collaborative partnership the Lucky Dragons ). For their Clocktower project, a site-specific audio piece was created, designed for focused listening while drawing. A series of large scale drawings were then produced in collaboration with visitors engaged in active listening. Rara and Fischbeck, as both Sumi Ink Club and as Lucky Dragons, have presented their collaborative work at a wide variety of institutions, including Machine Project (Los Angeles), MOCA (Los Angeles), Southern Exposure (San Francisco), ICA London, ICA Philadelphia, MOMA/PS1, P.P.O.W. (New York), LACE (Los Angeles), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), The Whitney Museum of American Art (as part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial), the Smithsonian’s Hirshorn Museum, and the Centre Georges Pompidou ,among others. In this radio show you will hear music the two have written and recorded for their 2012 Clocktower project.