SATURDAY JULY 26, 4PM
1923 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles
Rountree will discuss the theme of cinema that runs through his practice, the process of writing and recording a radio art piece and how it overlaps with the process of carving woodcuts and the principles that unify the artist’s use of different mediums.
Brittany Menjivar is a writer based in Los Angeles. She is the author of the poetry and prose collection Parasocialite, praised in Nylon and Office. She also contributes to various arts and culture publications, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Artillery, and the Creative Independent. As a screenwriter represented by Untitled, she has several features in pre-production, including the forthcoming adaptation of Alex Kazemi’s novel New Millennium Boyz.
Jordan Rountree began his visual art training at the Ateliers du Carrousel programme in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. After studying life drawing and traditional artmaking techniques, his initiation into performance matured from working under the artist practices of Jasmin Blasco and Cyprien Gaillard; he later performed in Terence Koh’s “Adansonias” (2008) at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Rountree has since performed in national theaters and avant-garde spaces in Europe, including the Théâtre de la Bastille, the Pompidou Center in Paris, as well as the Ballhaus Ost in Berlin. He has also directed workshops at the Espace Van Gogh in Arles. In 2015, Rountree established a studio practice in Los Angeles, where he uses Surrealist literary techniques to produce multidisciplinary works, primarily in the mediums of text, radio art, woodcuts, and performance.
The event will take place on Saturday, July 26, 4pm at Baert Gallery.
