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# ArtRx LA
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/artrx-la-107/
- Published: 2016-08-09T20:55:26.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:29:00.000Z
- Description: LOS ANGELES — This week, find refuge in a mobile tea house, watch fantastical adult animation from the '70s, visit Pasadena's City Hall where local youth will project their videos, and more.
- Author: Matt Stromberg
- Tags: Art, Events, Weekly Art Rx LA, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:17 (2016, 2017, part 1)

![Liz Craft, “Nicole Couch (Pink, Fuchsia, Orange)” (2010), Fiberglass and paint, 32 x 98 x 40.5 inches. (via facebook)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/08/stranger.jpg)

Liz Craft, “Nicole Couch (Pink, Fuchsia, Orange)” (2010), fiberglass and paint, 32 x 98 x 40.5 inches, featured in “A Stranger in My Grave” (via Facebook)

LOS ANGELES — This week, find refuge in a mobile tea house, watch fantastical adult animation from the ’70s, visit Pasadena’s City Hall where local youth will project their videos, and more.

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##  In the Shadow of the Sun

When: Wednesday, August 10, 7:30pm  
Where: The Regent (448 S. Main Street, Downtown, Los Angeles)

Derek Jarman was a British artist, stage designer, and director, whose wildly creative output ranged from experimental shorts, to seminal punk film [*Jubilee*](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076240/?ref%5F=nm%5Fflmg%5Fdr%5F30&ref=hyperallergic.com) (1978), to unconventional historical narratives like [*Caravaggio*](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090798/?ref%5F=nm%5Fflmg%5Fdr%5F18&ref=hyperallergic.com) (1986), which also marked Tilda Swinton’s cinematic debut. His 1981 movie [*In the Shadow of the Sun*](http://www.cinefamily.org/films/cinefamily-exp/?ref=hyperallergic.com#in-the-shadow-of-the-sun-w-live-score-by-psychic-tv) was pieced together from Super 8 films he shot in the early ’70s, double-exposed and manipulated to create a dream-like fantasy, with a soundtrack by industrial noise pioneers Throbbing Gristle. Wednesday’s screening at The Regent will feature a live score by Psychic TV, the follow-up band from TG’s transgressive leader Genesis P-Orridge.

![Dir. Derek Jarman, "In the Shadow of the Sun" (1981) (via facebook)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/08/jarman.jpg)

Dir. Derek Jarman, “In the Shadow of the Sun” (1981) (via Facebook)

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##  Fantastic Planet / Heavy Metal

When: Friday, August 12, 7:30pm  
Where: The Egyptian (6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles)

Long before the film *Sausage Party* packaged adult content in cartoon form, there was [*Fantastic Planet* and *Heavy Metal*](https://www.facebook.com/events/642788032555465/). These two classic — but very different — films are milestones of mature and fantastical animated cinema. The French/Czech stop-motion film *Fantastic Planet* (1973) tells the bizarre story of an alien planet where humans are kept as pets by a race of gigantic blue-skinned beings. *Heavy Metal* (1981) was a spin-off of the fantasy/sci-fi magazine of the same name, and combined multiple unrelated stories, each animated by a different studio. It featured ample amounts of violence and nudity, and a soundtrack that boasted Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, and Cheap Trick.

![Dir. René Laloux, "Fantastic Planet" (1973) (via facebook)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/08/fantastic-planet.jpg)

Dir. René Laloux, “Fantastic Planet” (1973) (via Facebook)

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##  A Stranger in My Grave

When: Opens Friday, August 12, 6–9pm  
Where: Four Six One Nine (4619 W. Washington Blvd, Mid-City, Los Angeles)

Every act of artistic creation can be seen as a way to thwart death, an attempt by the artist to leave a piece of themselves behind that will last long after they are gone. The five artists in [*A Stranger in My Grave*](https://www.facebook.com/events/225955364466421/) flip this notion on its head, instead focusing prematurely on their demise, capturing “the disquieting strangeness of a living artist forecasting himself into death,” as the [curatorial statement](http://evergreenestudio.com/sites/default/files/documents/EvergreeneStudio%5FA%20Stranger%20in%20my%20Grave%5FCuratorial%20Statement.pdf?ref=hyperallergic.com) says. These include Jeffrey Vallance’s comedic chicken in a coffin, Blinky, Liz Craft’s ornate and candy-colored deathbed sculpture, and Jim Shaw’s ballet “The Whole,” an expression of his pseudo-religion Oism, as well as works by Mathis Gasser and Fabian Marti.

![Rachid Bouhamidi, "Dar Shez Riff Tea House" (via facebook)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/08/darshezriff.jpg)

Rachid Bouhamidi, “Dar Shez Riff Tea House” (via Facebook)

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##  Dar Shez Riff Tea House

When: Opens Saturday, August 13, 7–11pm  
Where: LAST Projects (6546 Hollywood Blvd, Ste 215, Hollywood, Los Angeles)

Rachid Bouhamidi’s “[Dar Shez Riff Tea House](https://www.facebook.com/events/233594923707054/)” is a posthumous collaboration with his father, Cherif Bouhamidi, and a reimagining of this integral element of Moroccan culture. The mobile structure is covered in Bouhamidi’s paintings that incorporate Moroccan design motifs, and surrealist drawings by his father, a self-taught artist, as well as scrabble tiles that spell out lines of verse. Over a two-week period, the Tea House will host performances and exist as a site of respite and refuge where visitors can enjoy tea and the card game Ronda. The reception will feature savory pies known as Bastillas, and performances from Karl Jean-Guerly Pétion, Steven Belfer, and KC Amos as the Escobedos.

![Still from Roto Pasadena (via rotopasadena.tumblr.com)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/08/roto.jpg)

Still from Roto Pasadena (via rotopasadena.tumblr.com)

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##  Roto Pasadena

When: Saturday, August 13, 8–10pm  
Where: Pasadena City Hall (100 Garfield Avenue, Pasadena, California)

“[Roto Pasadena](http://rotopasadena.tumblr.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com)” is a collaboration between artists Lisa Mann and Yo-Yo Lin and Pasadena-area youth groups, that aims “[to create a video poem from a teen perspective of living in Pasadena](https://www.facebook.com/events/1731952373730540/).” Together, the artists have created rotoscoped films — painstakingly hand-tracing one image at a time — that will be projected onto City Hall, the Central Library, and the Police Station, with the intention of opening up a dialogue between public servants and those they serve.

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##  The Spun Universe

![José Benítez Sánchez "Untitled" (2005), Acrylic yarn, beeswax, wood (via fowler.ucla.edu)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/08/huichol.jpg)

José Benítez Sánchez “Untitled” (2005), acrylic yarn, beeswax, wood (via fowler.ucla.edu)

When: Opens Sunday, August 14  
Where: Fowler Museum (UCLA North Campus, Westwood, Los Angeles)

The Wixárika or Huichol people of Western Mexico are well known for their *nierakate,* brightly colored yarn paintings made by affixing yarn to a wooden board with beeswax. The labor-intensive process results in tactile and visionary works filled with images of scared animals, plants, and ritual objects central to the Wixárika cosmos. [*The Spun Universe*](http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/fowler-focus-spun-universe/?ref=hyperallergic.com#!) features a selection of these works, including those by Ramón Medina Silva, an artist who was instrumental in bringing *nierakate* to international attentionbeginning in the 1960s.