Automata Arts

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General Admission

<p style="font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0px;font-weight:var(--heading-font-font-weight);line-height:calc(var(--heading-font-line-height) * (1 + (1 - var(--heading-3-size-value))/25));box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Please join artist <a href="https://www.amychiao.com/" target="_blank">Amy Chiao</a> + collaborators for the dress rehearsal of Eutrophia II, a durational installation-performance in Automata’s main gallery.   This is a free event. Enter the discount code DRESS at checkout. <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0px 0px 1rem;line-height:var(--body-font-line-height);overflow-wrap:break-word;font-weight:300;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Eutrophia II is a “performance maintenance study of alternative no foam hygienic landscapes formed by our three historically Homo Consumericus trusted stage shapes: the arena, the proscenium, and let’s not forget the trigone, the third cousin once removed from the thrust” (--Amy Chiao). <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:1rem 0px;line-height:var(--body-font-line-height);overflow-wrap:break-word;font-weight:300;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Drawing from pick-and-place logistics, extinct professions, and resting furniture materials, Eutrophia II envisions the transition of manual labor into leisure tasking; a survival exhibition of transcending displacement at automation’s door.<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:1rem 0px;line-height:var(--body-font-line-height);overflow-wrap:break-word;font-weight:300;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">These spatial assignments,responding to the arena, proscenium, and trigone, are activated by performers and voluntary audience surveys.  They render an insufficient narrative, mapping the birth of occupational identity through ritual material production.<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:1rem 0px;line-height:var(--body-font-line-height);overflow-wrap:break-word;font-weight:300;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Orchestrated motions unfold atop an elliptical sodium bicarbonate firm pillow, framed in institutional green Hammermill 8.5 x 11” compositions, triangulated by liquid saving plastics stationed at the apron(s). As a triage, this performance-installation explores maintenance art in our traditionally limited floorplans of performativity and spectatorship, surveying which stage forms, hard or soft, we should continue to inhabit, produce, or choose to abandon. <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:1rem 0px;line-height:var(--body-font-line-height);overflow-wrap:break-word;font-weight:300;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:1rem 0px;line-height:var(--body-font-line-height);overflow-wrap:break-word;font-weight:300;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Audiences will enter the installation-performance in groups of 20 at designated times and have the opportunity to move around the space individually and to experience Eutrophia ll , as it unfolds, from numerous perspectives.<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:1rem 0px;line-height:var(--body-font-line-height);overflow-wrap:break-word;font-weight:300;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:1rem 0px;line-height:var(--body-font-line-height);overflow-wrap:break-word;font-weight:300;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">This is a no foam zone.<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:1rem 0px;line-height:var(--body-font-line-height);overflow-wrap:break-word;font-weight:300;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0px 0px 1rem;line-height:var(--body-font-line-height);overflow-wrap:break-word;font-weight:300;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Conceived and Directed by <a href="https://www.amychiao.com/" target="_blank">Amy Chiao</a><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:1rem 0px;line-height:var(--body-font-line-height);overflow-wrap:break-word;font-weight:300;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Performed by <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7704671/" target="_blank">Avalon Greenberg Call</a>, <a href="https://www.dylanmarx.com/" target="_blank">Dylan Marx</a>, and <a href="https://youngtseng.work/" target="_blank">YoungTseng</a> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:1rem 0px;line-height:var(--body-font-line-height);overflow-wrap:break-word;font-weight:300;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Set Design by <a href="https://dannybaxter.com/" target="_blank">Danny Baxter</a> and <a href="https://www.nataliejferguson.com/" target="_blank">Natalie Ferguson</a><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:1rem 0px;line-height:var(--body-font-line-height);overflow-wrap:break-word;font-weight:300;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Lighting Design by <a href="https://www.nataliejferguson.com/" target="_blank">Natalie Ferguson</a> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:1rem 0px;line-height:var(--body-font-line-height);overflow-wrap:break-word;font-weight:300;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Movement Direction by <a href="https://alexsadurrans.com/" target="_blank">Alexsa Durrans </a><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:1rem 0px;line-height:var(--body-font-line-height);overflow-wrap:break-word;font-weight:300;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Sound Design &amp; Music Composition by <a href="https://www.dylanmarx.com/" target="_blank">Dylan Marx</a><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:1rem 0px 0px;line-height:var(--body-font-line-height);overflow-wrap:break-word;font-weight:300;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Lighting Tech by <a href="https://miles-moon.com/" target="_blank">Miles Moon Karraa</a><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:1rem 0px;line-height:var(--body-font-line-height);overflow-wrap:break-word;font-weight:300;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:1rem 0px;line-height:var(--body-font-line-height);overflow-wrap:break-word;font-weight:300;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Eutrophia II is the second iteration of ‘ur already in eutrophia.’ The first development phase of this collaborative project was made possible through the CalArts Reef Residency 2024-2025. This phase is supported through the Automata Residency Project.

Automata Arts

Invited Dress Rehearsal 9.28.25

504 Chung King Rd

General Admission

$10