Sept. 25-Oct.18, 2020
Marfa Open Art Festival 2020, 102 S Plateau St, (Marfa, Texas)
Live Drawing Session (Exploration in Body, Mood, and Primordial Revelations)
Multi-media interactive video installation- Collab w/ Chris SooHoo divinebrick and Jason Adams—-Showing throughout the festival till October
Video,sound, movement, drawing supplies
Description:
“Live Drawing Session” invites you to sit and experience a distance yet visceral butoh performance prayer by divinebrick, Chris Soohoo, and Rumori, transposed into a figure drawing workshop in motion. Through the guidance of Chris SooHoo and haunting soundscapes woven by Rumori (aka Jason Adams), this session offers points of inspiration stemming from movement, video, and sound. It invites watchers to participate in its wholly improvised performance through their own drawing. Create a composite illustration of body in flow. Focus and capture elements of mood and meaning, or just observe and allow the spectrum of dreams to invade your consciousness as you become part of this new collaboration. Tag your drawings #livedrawingmarfa
Cuts from candid improv sessions with film maker Alexandra Banhazl.
summer 2021
Oct 21, 2022
Palmdale, Ca
Body: divinebrick
Video: Jeremy Eichenbaum/ Los Angeles Video Club
Music: Have It Too
2019
www.losangelesvideoclub.com
Offering by divinebrick at Skin Deep 3, Arcata, Ca
September 4, 2021
Music: Zachary Paul “The Veil”
finished on 2021
filmed on 2019
Edited by Carla Barinas
Captured by Phoenix Losavio
Offering by divinebrick
*Project completed with help from the Department of Cultural Affairs
Live Stream
divinebrick dances in studio with Pharaoh Sanders LIVE at Zebulon Cafe Los Angeles
OCT 13, 2020
WHEREAS the klaxon of the umbra meets the new dawn's clarion...
within the jettisoned gaze of the acolyte - at the "PERFORMANCES AFTER PEAVY" 8/11/21 Joshua Tree Perseid Meteor Shower Special Event
The document here finely pieced together by @chaosmopolitan and which were a part of events proffered towards Paulina Peavy @paulinapeavyofficial sunder the Perseids @furstwurld last August 11th, organized by Laura Whitcomb @label_curatorial_ and Beyond Baroque @bblitarts.
Special thanks to the video contributions of @bobbyfurst and recordings fielded from @haydeejimenez @divinebrickartist and @maneeshrajmadahar
In this performance:
@divinebrickartist
@maneeshrajmadahar
@chaosmopolitan
@mkglvr
@mmzblast
Video improv with The Caretaker
07-25-20
video offering by divinebrick
sound by The Caretaker- "Everywhere at the End of Time"
-Performed live during a world wide lockdown
that had greater damage than we are yet to know...
This is meant to be watched as a video portrait...no time shall exist all is everywhere....
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During the lockdown I challenged myself to listen to the Caretaker's, "Everywhere at the End of Time". Many have said to not listen to this 6hr work (that chronicles a person's mind as they lose it due to dementia) while in the grips of any challenging time. As many during the lockdown I had trouble with the isolation and the feeling that I was losing something...was it time, was it friends, were they elders, was it just the extension of the darkness that is always in me?...I think I was lucky that in spite of all the darkness in me and surrounding us, I had my family and one beautiful soul to occupy my thoughts away from my own Self...for at least some of the time.
I found the Caretaker's work quite familiar somehow. I loved moving to it. I streamed an hour of the listening session, at the time. Even now when I see this recording which will premiere on July 30th, 7pm it brings this melancholy in which I still do not understand. It feels like a childhood memory in which I do not wish to remember, but fills me with the tenderness of my youth. It reminds me of hurtful times, of lovers lost, of being at the grips of my own self...It also reminds me of the bittersweet feeling of being forced to be contained alone and with another person. A time where all there was, was outside and eating something with someone special. It hurts to want to return to a time that hurt so much. A simpler moment. It is strange what we crave at times. Maybe because life is not black and white. In the awfulness there is tenderness, there is beauty there is existence and real experience despite what our mind wants to reject.
“Boogaloo Baby” is a quarantine dream…
Civilization and technological progression are moving light years into concepts ahead of general comprehension. All the while your own thoughts are what occupy you, an early self reflection. Isolation and quarantine negates your progression into spectrums new to your evaluation. Your eyelids reflect the daily transgressions. In dreams you solve the unsolvable. Sleep, boogaloo baby, this one’s not for you. You are too confused by legislation.
Let's dance to keep our head the same.
by divinebrick
Excerpts by
The Caretaker
Electric Boogaloo: The Movie
A Certain Ratio
Created for:
Film Maudit 2.0 is a festival in Los Angeles of outre films, inspired by legendary artist Jean Cocteau’s festival, Le Film Maudit, which celebrated a group of films that were criminally overlooked and neglected at the time. The second year of Film Maudit 2.0 will take place January 12-24, 2021. The term film maudit literally means “cursed films,” and this showcase of counter-cinema will blend together both narrative, documentary and experimental films that in their style and/or subject matter, are deliberately bold, extreme, confrontational, troubling, shocking and/or unusual. We are looking for adventuresome works that deal with socio-political issues, taboo subjects, and challenge artistic assumptions and sexual mores.
July 28th, 2020
on
www.twitch.tv/divinebrick
"Primaries Clipped, I Still Smell the Salt"
Bare Bones Butoh
February 29-March 1, 2020
divinebrick (josie j)
music/ noise/ drums by Mike Meanstreetz
divinebrick
*video glitch part of phenomenon occurring in environment.
October 2019
improv at the steps of the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption
SF,Ca
New York composer Omar Zubair and Los Angeles experimental guitarist Maneesh Raj Madahar (together the Ecstatic Energy Lab) conceive a neoshamanic ritual encompassing multiple players in varied disciplines including music and performance at Collective Arts Incubator (CAI), Los Angeles, 2/11/17.
featuring:
Maneesh Raj Madahar
Mike Meanstreetz
Cameron McNair
Brennan Lowe
Omar Zubair
Mike Glover
josie j (divinebrick)
Cinematography and Editing by Curtis Tamm
"The world tree touches the planet where no body knows. It is said that to arrive at the place no body knows, an animal must begin by forgetting itself. To all those that arrive, the place no body knows is twilight that shimmers with the sound of countless tiny silver bells.
The roots of the world tree create a deep deep cavern. There is a djinn who resides within. This djinn is the breath of the eldest mother. It is said that if true friends wholeheartedly breathe together, they have the potential to touch this djinn. This is another path to the place no body knows. It is also said that if this djinn becomes aware of animal presences, there is a chance that the ego, the mind, the blood, the heart, and the flesh may dissolve and dissipate. All that will be left is the breathing and no thing else.
The world tree’ trunk is perceived as a dense vertiginous column of innumerable birds. Rising up and twirling down. The variety of birds is beyond conceiving. Sparrows and hawks and benus and eagles and phoenixes and peacocks and owls and anzus and ravens and garudas and on and on and on. The avian column kaleidoscopically transforms into very fine slow moving bursts of lightning. This lighting blooms outwards into a roiling mass of thunderheads that is smeared with blotches of furtive mirages. The mirages briefly reveal vistas of the horizon lines from wondrous landscapes, then melt and marble into the storm clouds. This is the crown of the world tree.
The world tree is not the first world tree. Much is forgotten of the first, save for the echo of its existence and that it needed no star and that it’s twin was the eldest mother.
But all of this is just a whisper heard in a dream, a fleeting buzz one may hear when encountering will-o’-the-wisps. Snatches of an indiscernible language that is felt to be seething with secrets but ultimately unknowable." (Maneesh Raj Madahar)
"Slime on a Toad"
January 14, 2019
Meditative Play initiated and facilitated by DivineBrick
Movement by Olive Hays and DivineBrick
Concepts explored by Olive Hays and DivineBrick
Music by Zachary Paul
Captured by Charlie Westcott
Meditative Plays are experiences to facilitate growth and exploration of themes and concepts directly related to individuals involved. The goal is not only to create a work that effects viewers but also shifts the present and personal experience and growth of participants. You may call it a ritual, a cleansing, a purging, a ceremony, a trial by fire, and ancestral need to play with something to further understand it...its a deeper approach that values experience over aesthetics and spirituality over quantification.
DivineBrick (josie j)
Julia Hays insta: @chookoo.lives
Zachary Paul
@coaxial Los Angeles Ca
Improv bomb
DivineBrick (josie j)
Video by Julia Hays
San Pedro, Ca
April 27th, 2019
divinebrick @ We Live In Space
song: Tzusing - Digital Properties
March 17th, 2019
Captured by Olive Hays
D.B.R.P. Performing in Solo Dolo #2 @ Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, Ca