SCOTT BENZEL

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(Mayakovsky) Study for Instrumental Trans Communication, Voice, and Autotune at Rainbow in Spanish

Scott Benzel Book Launch and Art Writers Open Mic

Scott Benzel Book Launch
and Art Writers Open Mic
1-1:30PM (Book Signing); 1:30-3PM (Open Mic)

The Los Angeles Contemporary Archive is pleased to announce the release of Scott Benzel’s untitled collection of poems. This event will include a book signing by Benzel from 1-1:30pm.

From 1:30-3pm, the even will open up an ‘open mic’ reading of art writers’ work, featuring Benzel, Andrew Berardini, Suzy Halajian, Carol Cheh, Martha Kirzsenbaum, Steve Kado, Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, Travis Diehl, Catherine Wagley, and many more! Art writers and critics are invited to sign up ahead of time or on the day of to read up for up to 7 minutes.

To sign up, email: info@wendyssubway.com

About the book

Art dealer Seth Siegelaub’s campaign throughout the late ’60’s to have the new conceptual work of his stable of artists understood and accepted, through the creation of catalogs, exhibitions, and entreaties to leading art writers and magazines to review the work, resulted in the still-operatal thesis that the content of much contemporary work is interpretable only through written material created by critics and other writers. This untitled collection of poems was composed by rearranging reviews and publicity materials into mostly metrical, unrhymed lines of blank verse and by removing any form of attribution, systematically ‘blanking’ the subject as well as the author(s) of the works and poems. The poems are credited as being ‘after’ a number of well-known critics and art writers, presumably the writers of the originary texts

Die Dritte Madonna Inn

Part-Objects book pdf now online

SCOTT BENZEL-PART OBJECTS.pdf 77.3 MB

Scott Benzel Part-Objects, 2014, published by Human Resources Press and Lockitch Press, Texts by Eric Kim and Catherine Taft. Designed by Hailey Loman.

Limited edition hardcover with cloth binding. Available for online purchase at: Art Metropole

Desert Center with Palm Springs Art Museum

Desert Center (Composition I10 Mvmt IV: Dusk) for string quartet, experimental percussion, AM radio, and electronics in collaboration with the Palm Springs Art Museum and L.A.N.D. April 3 and 4, Palm Springs Museum at Palm Desert and Desert Center, CA

photographs by Christopher Adler

East of Borneo Feature

Blouin Artinfo Feature

LA Weekly Preview

Modern Painters Feature

Part-Objects Book PDF and Online at Art Metropole; Mark Hagen/Scott Benzel ALAC

SCOTT BENZEL-PART OBJECTS.pdf 77.3 MB

Scott Benzel Part-Objects Book Release LA Art Book Fair and LACA Jan. 30-Feb. 2 published by Human Resources Press and Lockitch Press, Texts by Eric Kim and Catherine Taft. Limited edition hardcover.

Available for online purchase: Art Metropole

http://lacarchive.com/ Los Angeles Contemporary Archive

http://laartbookfair.net/ MOCA Geffen Contemporary Jan. 30- Feb. 2

Mark Hagen and Scott Benzel Coprolite Selections, Art Los Angeles Contemporary Jan. 30-Feb. 2

http://artlosangelesfair.com/press-125

Selected Music and Sound Works

LAAIR/Air de Paris, live performance at Shanaynay, Paris, 2013

Audio from PART-OBJECTS, a collaboration with Anita Pace, Perform Chinatown 2013

Spectrum (installation audio excerpt), (2013) Human Resources

Selections from the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of Feb. 28, 2013 (2013) Dem Passwords, LA

The Recitation from Profondeurs Vertes Mike Kelley and Scott Benzel Musee Louvre Paris (released 2012)

Exposition Chaos from A|D Liz Glynn and Scott Benzel with Corey Fogel and Giles Miller (2012) Public Fiction, LA

Sines (for Michael Asher) Excerpt 2 channel version of a 4 channel installation (2011) CAM St. Louis

Concentric Circles (before and after David Smith) Mvmt I for 3 lock-groove lacquers and string trio (2010) LACMA

Fewg Flash Bam Pow Music from the Trip (1967) in the style of…(2009) SASSAS Program PDF * **

Inversion I (retrograde) Excerpt Inversion I (retrograde) for Dennis Wilson (2010) Blum and Poe* **

Blak Bloc I Excerpt Blak Bloc II Excerpt BLAK BLOC FOR STRING QUARTET AND FEEDBACK (2009)* **

Nativity Electronique Coda from Day is Done- Original Soundtrack by Mike Kelley and Scott Benzel (2005)*

*full album available on iTunes ** full album available on Spotify

Human Resources Los Angeles April / May 2013

Spectrum (installation audio excerpt), (2013) Human Resources

Human Resources presents Scott Benzel and What does possession mean to you? Opening and Performances Saturday April 27 7-10PM

Shows Close Saturday May 18

Artforum Must See Show

http://humanresourcesla.com/

Object index pdf

Human Resources is pleased to present two concurrent shows by Scott Benzel. The downstairs space will feature a show of the artist’s recent work including large-scale installations, vitrines containing new works, and performances. The upstairs will feature What does Possession Mean to You? a selection of works and objects from Benzel’s collection to be deaccessioned, stored, or promised to individuals and institutions following the close of the show.

A new performance, Un Coup de Des / Presence, and a ‘recombination’ of Benzel’s Folk History and Non-Genre I for Female Black Metal Guitarist and Belt Sanders (2012), will take place during the opening Saturday April 27 from 7-10 pm.

Scott Benzel is a Los Angeles-based artist and composer. His work was featured in Made in LA 2012 at the Hammer Museum and has been shown or performed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum Of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, LAXART, and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. This is his second solo show at Human Resources.

Human Resources is a team of creative individuals which seeks to broaden engagement with contemporary and conceptual art, with an emphasis on performative and underexposed modes of expression.

in the good name of the company

In the good name of the company artforum.com

http://scottbenzel.tumblr.com/

Poems

Dicer Troll (2011)

zoic feed

ragout lives

nimbus feed-ingles

lipped bled pupa tare

gird valuer nimbus

bingo flood

pink brazil

brazil lives fetid wen

pink voter

pupa gasper

agile grouch

tempi voter bounty

ladder chose valuer potion

potboy girds seer

pray swathe gird

pink lumper ingle

public feed oakery attic

chose slam

pant sniffy arise bay

find cue-

ape feel feed

nimbus flood baboo ape

ladder oakery bay acuity

moving public gypsa module

gasper ingle seer bingo

valuer tare

morgue cashew chump baboo

caiman offday onus then:

gray insole

tar slouch

locum wherry

II.

ilex fix hypo coach

puce base mutt trow

munch crap

ding base check

actor gnome nitre lumpy

baize crap actor chum

mauve dance coach

hear kine skua mutt

ahull ah

quirk-limp supine dyke

ilex dance hawse

therm-adapted trow suit

tiff agave hears silky

dicer trow therm-hear

squaw ding chum sheer

munch depth coach hull

depth cask troll spike

farm skoal phase boob

nitre trow trait ding

agave kine miaou ripe

tali plus mauve munch

hump peter dance hypo

canoe peter check peter

skoal targe dwell mauve

trow dance spore coast

fascia fascia eery flavin

III.

orbed imply

cored racer.

pig rococo.

lieu wooer tame cleg

negus sprig bolus sprig

ashen bolus airy davit?

wrung tame

huso inky mumps head.

rogue safe inky drupe?

drupe hoof comet lieu!

head faith trace bogy.

bogy hoof

grey negus

frizz ashen airy

glum cleg fumy

close rogue relic trow

relic davit bolus drupe

crick davit rimy

juror frizz

rimy crux

close wrung

grey airy coil sidle

fugle motif

nance bogy fugle

trace soup hung milt

soda prater

retool burial photon

soda skull

cored racer

pig rococo

IV.

trio kowtow

lotus caste

ghost droop

debt unapt

quote ghost

nigh stuff

skyer scum

since skyer shod lose

since lotus digue beefy weird state

solar beret

la sloop

thuja obi comma derm

recta rowan recta couch

talma nigh

quote beret

junk scout rah

skyer solar

weird quote trio

comma couch bone stuff

extra sidy beret lad

heat frank dream comma

erect chirk frit trio

thuja junk stuff extra

frank laugh terry

skyer weird

pipe green wager

mazer quant rait chirk

green debt

cuboid escort carve vizier

carp pact clave

foster kino

hotel escort douse borer

grouch ablaze

rested spawn scrys missus

beady pact spun whisht

natter clave smarm

reeky dirge van sneak

coatee guilt

spacer ionic creasy fusion

resole cadre nab

gamin sleek viol

liaise sadist ionic

flight supine seer skull.

soda redhot fellow seer!

hurrah burg.

musky pod buyer

(Threnody) a beginner’s guide to Mao Tse Tung at Hammer Museum

(Threnody) Program Pdf

Made in L.A. catalog essay by Kurt Mueller pdf

(Threnody) A Beginner’s Guide to Mao Tse-Tung-June 22 7:30 pm @ Hammer

(Threnody) June 28 7:30 pm @ Hammer

Tape Music @ Schindler House, Venice Beach Biennial, Made in L.A., CCS Bard, Ballroom Marfa

Tape Music at the Schindler House, MAK Center, Los Angeles, featuring William Basinski, John Wiese, Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley, Pauline Oliveros, Cortical Foundation curated by Scott Benzel August 25, presented by SASSAS Program PDF

Michael Ned Holte Artforum Review

Made in L.A. catalog essay by Kurt Mueller pdf

Bass Elegy/Devil’s Night (for M.K.) in collaboration with Mark Hagen, Blum and Poe Sept. 15, 5:30pm

Bass Elegy/Devil’s Night (for M.K.) in collaboration with Mark Hagen, LAXART, Sept. 1, 8pm

Venice Beach Biennial with Mark Hagen July 13-15

(Threnody) A beginner’s guide to Mao Tse-Tung for 2 tape loops, dancers, violin, viola, cello, and percussion

(Threnody) Program Pdf

Made in L.A. catalog essay by Kurt Mueller pdf

(Threnody) A Beginner’s Guide to Mao Tse-Tung-June 22 7:30 pm @ Hammer

(Threnody) June 28 7:30 pm @ Hammer

SCOTT BENZEL: IVORY NEIGE, L’ORIGINE DU MONDE, MAGIC ERASER at CCS Bard

Essay by Theresa Choi pdf

Kathryn Andrews and Scott Benzel: Opus 1 Performance at Hip-O Ranch Marfa, TX, for Ballroom Marfa, 5.26.12

http://scottbenzel.tumblr.com/

Variations for Commercial Arcade, Gamut I-XXI, 2011

Scott Benzel- Variations for Commercial Arcade, Gamut I-XXI, Cassia Streb, viola at Trespass/Parade, 2011

BETWEEN CONNOISSEURSHIP AND HUMILIATION at Cirrus Gallery/Actual Size

EVENING SALE: BETWEEN CONNOISSEURSHIP AND HUMILIATION- WORKS FROM THE SCOTT BENZEL COLLECTION at Cirrus Gallery/Actual Size through May 5,2012

Download ipad/iphone Catalog in epub format, control click and save

Essay by Michael Haight pdf

Welcome Inn Time Machine

The Calder Quartet, here but not there; there but not here, based on Arnold Schoenberg, Entwürfe zu einem Streichquartett [Draft of a String Quartet] (1949)
Free Jazz: Something Else! based on Something Else!!!!; 4:30pm, 5:30pm
John Cage, Variations IV (1963), continuous
Anita Pace, Field Activity, 2012 (inspired by documents describing Merce Cunningham’s Field Dances performance, 1963), 4:30pm, 5:30pm, 6:30pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm
James Tenney, Postal Pieces (1965 – 1971), continuous on the half hour
Pauline Oliveros, Sonic Meditations (1971), continuous, quarter past and 45 past the hour
Bruce Nauman, Violin Tuned D.E.A.D. (1969) , on the hour starting at 5:00pm
Currents Series at the Theater Vanguard (1973 – 1978), continuous
Robert Wilhite, Bob Wilhite In Concert (1975), continuous
The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS), Pyramid Headphones (1976)
Project curators are Cindy Bernard, Scott Benzel, Gregory Lenczycki, Renee Petropoulos, Joseph Potts, and Dawson Weber.

L.A. Times Review

Chinashop Magazine

http://www.sassas.org/welcomeinn/

January 29, 2012 Welcome Inn. Eagle Rock

BLACK BOX, BALL OF ARTISTS, WELCOME INN TIME MACHINE: PST

http://pacificstandardtimefestival.org/events/black-box-by-liz-glynn/

Recombinant Folk History and Non-Genre I for Belt Sanders and Female Black Metal Guitarist, a performance/musical work at Black Box, curated by Liz Glynn Jan. 20, 2012 part of Pacific Standard Time, organized by LA><ART