GET LAY’D while you still have the chance! Sign up for this mysterious performance by Eric Lindley & Katie Shook. As Machine Project explains: Each show is designed for one, and just one, audience member at a time. Please reserve your spot in advance for this short puppet play to guarantee a spot by following [...]

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If we get another ice age, ya better hope Emily Lacy’s igloo is in your village so you can stay warm through these post-apocalyptic times. Emily Lacy recently embarked on a cross country tour to the cold part of the U.S.A., which included an igloo performance in Minnesota, repping Machine Project. Watch this, I hope [...]

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The Telethon is an inclusive group swimming upstream for an eternity. The community might never find that home, and the needs might never fully be met, but it’s that eternal striving that puts the “Eternal” in Eternal Telethon. Benefits may include hugs, balloons, and cake. This interview by Drew Denny.

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The first time seeing Tommy Santee Klaws perform should be by the sea at night, or on a shipwreck, or in a cabin filled with taxidermy, rusty contraptions and old books. Machine Project and Echo Country Outpost have hosted Tommy’s music because it’s simultaneously epic and playful, just like the surroundings they create. Like the Cure, Tommy Santee Klaws finds the darkness inspiring in prophetic, romantic ways.

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They are enveloping. Potentially they are in an echo chamber, or they are reenacting the scene in Ghostbusters where the EPA shuts off the containment grid and there are ghosts everywhere. Tommy, with family, vacillates between delicate tenor pleas and a stabbing coyote yelp. I have seen them perform five times in the last two months and, beyond all hyperbole, dammit they are good.

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from Emily Lacy: Over December and January I will be in Residence at LACMA conducting ‘Temples of the Mind’, making music and films based in the Pavilion for Japanese Art. Throughout this process an entire album will be recorded on-site at LACMA, mysterious radio transmissions will be available over the internet, and mystical reckonings will [...]

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Elana Mann’s Performing Economies demonstrates just how dynamic and even necessary participatory art can be. For almost three months now, Mann and artists and collectives from across the city have presented panels, performative works and visual artwork exploring the ideas of alternative economies. This interview by Drew Denny.

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Sara Newey and Christy McCaffrey endured hours of exposure to toxic chemicals and hamburger patties, emerging as a pair of friends who have created an alien baby, beautified Sea World Tokyo, survived a streetfight (against one another), constructed a boat, mastered the art of landscape architecture, and built a forest inside the Machine Project gallery in Echo Park. This interview by Drew Denny.

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