Rick Bahto

Friday, June 1, 2012. the wulf.

bahto / clipson / elliott / hell
Friday, June 1, 2012
the wulf. 1026 south santa fe avenue #203, los angeles, california 90021
9 pm / free

super 8 films.

solar flares by hayley elliott; for paul clipson by rick bahto; another void and compound eyes no.’s 1-5 by paul clipson. plus live sound / film by rene hell and paul clipson.

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May 10, 2012 at 5:04 pm

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Friday, May 4, 2012. the wulf.

4 may 2012 8pm
@ the wulf. – 1026 s santa fe #203, los angeles
free

a screening of some new music videos:

Julia Holter/Rick Bahto – “Marienbad”
Julia Holter/Yelena Zhelezov – “Moni Mon Amie”
Heather Lockie/Susanna Battin – “When You’re Young”

followed by:

Rick Bahto, Julia Holter, and Mark So inhabiting a realm of studies in topiary (Bahto), some keyboard miscellany (Christian Wolff, Morton Feldman), & a 3-tape reading of John Ashbery’s poem “As You Came from the Holy Land” [readings 39] (So)

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May 4, 2012 at 7:24 am

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Images from April 1 at Atwater Crossing

Watch video here.

Rick Bahto – Donuts of Los Angeles (2010–2012, 35mm slides), some other 35mm slides, and You’re Already Dead (for Lauren Sorensen) for motion picture film and performers (performed with Julia Holter).

Mark So – Brite Spots [for Brian Blanchfield] (cassette tape, photographs, laundry line), As You Came from the Holy Land [readings 39] [for Eva-Maria Houben & Eileen Myles] (reader), and a book of palms [for Ama] (piano).

photos thanks Paul Shephard / video thanks Miko Revereza.

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April 10, 2012 at 9:25 am

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Saturday, April 7, 2012. Collage Ensemble & the wulf. Inglewood.

Saturday, April 7, 2012
10:28 AM to 1:44 PM

Inglewood Main Library and surrounding grounds.
101 West Manchester Blvd, Inglewood, California.
Collage Ensemble Inc. Finale in collaboration with the wulf.
For one afternoon, we will activate this historic civic center designed by Charles Luckman with sound and visual art work.
Participating artists include: Mona Kasra, Jeffrey James Mohr, Alan Nakagawa, Steve Roden, Casey Anderson, Daniel Corral, Corey Fogel, Matt Barbier, James Klopfleisch, Heather Lockie, Liam Mooney, Christine Tavolacci, Rick Bahto, Madison Brookshire, Eric KM Clark, Sepand Shahab, Mike Winter

Visual works will remain installed in the Inglewood Library till April 28.

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March 25, 2012 at 9:47 pm

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Sunday, April 1, 2012. Ekstasis album release party. Los Angeles.

dublab & RVNG Intl. present…
A happening to celebrate the release of Julia Holter’s album Ekstasis

Live performances by:
Julia Holter, with Corey Fogel and and Christopher Votek.
Rick Bahto & Mark So.
Visuals by Yelena Zhelezov.
+ dublab djs

Select beer & wine plus wood-fired dishes available for purchase.

Atwater Crossing Kitchen
3245 Casitas Ave Los Angeles CA

Free / All Ages / 6–10pm

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March 25, 2012 at 9:40 pm

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Thursday, March 29, 2012. LA AIR: Margie Schnibbe. Los Angeles.

Thursday, March 29 – LA AIR: MARGIE SCHNIBBE – 8 PM
Echo Park Film Center. 1200 N. Alvarado St. Los Angeles.
LA AIR is a new artist-in-residence program that invites Los Angeles filmmakers to utilize EPFC resources in creating a new work over a four-week period. Our March resident, Margie Schnibbe, will be working on a new project titled Friends and Neighbors: “To celebrate my ten-plus year relationship with the Echo Park Film Center I will film an experimental narrative video on the streets of my Silver Lake neighborhood.  The residency will culminate with a group screening that includes this new video as well as works by Rick Bahto, Marie Chao, Spencer Douglass + Gustavo Herrera, Kate Durbin, Fabian Euresti, Marija Gaier & Alison Zukovsky, Kate Harding, Asher Hartman, Tyler Hubby, Machine Project, Dave Naz, Richard Newton, Jules Rochielle, Cosmo Segurson and Silvana Ward.” Also join us for the festive finale of Ursula Broookbank’s VHS installation ON VIEW in the storefront window.

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March 25, 2012 at 9:32 pm

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March 22, 2012. New Works Salon.

Thursday, March 22
NEW WORKS SALON
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles.
8 PM / $5

Several local artists will present new in-progress or recently completed works. Sean Batton and Kelsey Brain will present a 16mm film comprising footage of Occupy Los Angeles’s two-month encampment at City Hall. Marcy Saude presents her in-progress Alternative Strategies #1, in which Filmmaker Robert Nelson talks about the house he and William Wiley built by hand in rural Mendocino County. Mark Toscano will present two recent 16mm films, Process of Elimination (2012) and Demonstration (2012), as well as play a soundtrack for a film yet to be made. Rick Bahto will project his recently completed Super 8 film Casual Encounters, which shows him interacting with scores by the composer Mark So. Accompanying the projection will be a cassette tape by Casey Anderson, which incorporates performances of So’s scores ascending emptiness of the afternoon (You have built a mountain of something) (2010); (The fur of a cat in the sun) (Sticks, numbers, letters) [for Adam Overton] (2011); bored glances, boring questions (2009); INTERIOR, GARDEN (All it can hold.) [for Casey] (2011); a ride in common variety [For Manfred & Jürg & Istvàn & Douglas & Simone & Eileen] (2009); The year subsides into clouds (2009). Pablo Valencia will project a collection of recent Super 8 miniatures, and Hayley Elliott will present a developing cut of hand-processed Super 8 film.

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March 20, 2012 at 9:43 am

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Images from Feb 24th performance at Jancar Jones Gallery

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Performance included Rick Bahto with 35 mm slides, Julia Holter with voice, keyboard and harmonium, and Mark So with typewriter and cassette tape.

Also, Pitchfork came and interviewed Julia / documented the performance. There are snippets from the performance, and I even make a brief, albeit illuminating, cameo about one minute in:

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March 3, 2012 at 8:23 am

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Friday, February 24, 2012. Jancar Jones Gallery, Los Angeles. 8 pm.

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“Please join us for a performance by Rick Bahto, Julia Holter, and Mark So. The evening will include a variety of unplanned activities along with a projection of Rick Bahto’s music video for Julia Holter’s song Marienbad.”

Jancar Jones Gallery

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1031 N. Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90012

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February 19, 2012 at 10:40 am

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Marienbad

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I wanted to make something that would serve as a visual accompaniment to Julia Holter’s song “Marienbad”, but would not be strictly tied to it. I utilized multiple film projections interacting and interfering with one another in a single composition. The material seen in this video was made with Kodak Tri-X regular 8 mm motion picture film and Kodak Plus-X 35 mm still film, all of it processed by hand. The video is a single take documenting a live performance using two 8 mm projectors and a single 35 mm projector all aimed at the same space on a screen; there is no digital manipulation of the images, and no edits have been made to the recording. Rick Bahto – January, 2012

Film / photography / projector performance by Rick Bahto.
Many thanks to Walter Vargas for digital documentation.

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January 11, 2012 at 10:07 pm

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