Emily Mast’s work pulls from a combination of practices—visual art, theater and dance—and is anchored in the production of multi-compositional projects that employ live performance, sculptural installation, video and performance “souvenirs.” With every project she gathers a micro-community of collaborators that she leads in a collective exploration of a given work’s subject matter.
For the Oxy Arts Performance & Process Series, Emily will be discussing and sharing her most recent piece, Continuous Wave, that transforms unlikely spaces into hubs for layered forms of communication, celebration and connection. She will be joined by four local a cappella singers wearing choir-boy-inspired costumes by Nancy Stella Soto. Audience members will be offered the opportunity to send “singing telegrams” by jotting down SOS messages – or the last words they might share with the world were they lost at sea. Messages will then be translated into Morse code by an in-house interpreter and performed live on stage. Visitors will be given special decoder napkins designed by Tom Comitta in order to decipher “secret messages” illuminated on the chapel walls.
Emily Mast has staged “choreographed exhibitions” and presented live performances at various venues including: STUK, Leuven, Belgium (2018); The LUMA Foundation, Arles, France (2018); Human Resources, Los Angeles (2018); FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, France (2017); Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria (2017); The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2017); the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2016); La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel (2015); China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles (2015); Mona Bismarck American Center, Paris (2015); Silencio, Paris (2015); LACMA, Los Angeles (2014); The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014); Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2014); Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, New York (2013); Simone Subal Gallery, New York (2013); the Galeria Luisa Strina in Sao Paolo, Brazil (2013); Public Fiction, Los Angeles (2012); REDCAT, Los Angeles (2012) and Performa, New York (2009). She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Photo courtesy Emily Mast, Ruinart & Frieze LA
This event is free and open to the public.
Herrick Chapel, Occidental College
1600 Campus Rd.
Los Angeles, CA 90041
The Oxy Arts Performance + Process Series is made possible by the Arts and Urban Experience Initiative, which is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
