Name: Tapetail at Automata presents: Akari Komura & Ilana Waniuk
Start: 2026-09-20T02:30:00.000Z
End: 2026-09-20T03:30:00.000Z
Location: 504 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA

Hands reach out from a textured background of autumnal leaves and crumpled paper with Japanese script, overlaid with the handwritten phrase "to be held."

Automata Arts

Students, Seniors, and Underemployed

General admission

<p fr-original-style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5;">Saturday, September 19th 2026<p fr-original-style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5;">5-7pm Open Installation<p fr-original-style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5;">7:30pm Live Performance AUTOMATA&#39; s Experimental Sound series TAPETAIL presents: Akari Komura &amp; Ilana Waniuk<p fr-original-style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5;">&ldquo;to be held&rdquo; is an installation performance that embodies assemblages of personal memories connected with hands. Tracing what our hands have touched, held, collected, written, and sounded, the installation integrates a collection of the personal objects, textiles, text, light, and shadow that pose three primary questions about the relationship between hands and memories: What was the first thing you touched today?; Who do you see in your hands?; What memories do your hands carry?<p fr-original-style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit;" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5;"> Using field recordings, found objects, overhead projectors, violin, and voice, the performance will be an activation of the space as a score. As the performers interpret and realize the assemblage of objects and memories into sound, the piece also explores what a score can be and how it can be notated with gestural abstraction of objects.&nbsp;

<p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 100%; margin: 0px; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); line-height: 1.5;">Hello <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " fr-original-style="" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 196); overflow-wrap: anywhere; user-select: none; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255); border-radius: 4px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 8px; font-size: 11px; display: inline-block; box-sizing: inherit;">First name <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{lastname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " fr-original-style="" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 196); overflow-wrap: anywhere; user-select: none; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255); border-radius: 4px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 8px; font-size: 11px; display: inline-block; box-sizing: inherit;">Last name,<p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 100%; margin: 0px; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); line-height: 1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 100%; margin: 0px; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); line-height: 1.5;">Here are the details for Akari Komura &amp; Ilana Waniuk<p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 100%; margin: 0px; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); line-height: 1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 100%; margin: 0px; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); line-height: 1.5;">📭 &nbsp; at 504 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA<p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 100%; margin: 0px; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); line-height: 1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 100%; margin: 0px; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); line-height: 1.5;">⌚️ &nbsp; On Saturday, September 19th&nbsp;<p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 100%; margin: 0px; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); line-height: 1.5;">5pm-7pm Installation Open (come and go as you please)<p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 100%; margin: 0px; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); line-height: 1.5;">7:30pm Live Performance<p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 100%; margin: 0px; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); line-height: 1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 100%; margin: 0px; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); line-height: 1.5;">You don&#39;t need to print your tickets&ndash;we&#39;ll have your name on a list at the door when you check in.<p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 100%; margin: 0px; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); line-height: 1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 100%; margin: 0px; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); line-height: 1.5;">See you at the show!<p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 100%; margin: 0px; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); line-height: 1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 100%; margin: 0px; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); line-height: 1.5;">Automata Arts<p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 100%; margin: 0px; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); line-height: 1.5;">automataarts@gmail.com<p fr-original-style="box-sizing:inherit;width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 100%; margin: 0px; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); line-height: 1.5;">323 6495134

<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:left;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">Saturday, September 19th 2026<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:left;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">5-7pm Open Installation<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:left;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">7:30pm Live Performance AUTOMATA' s Experimental Sound series TAPETAIL presents: Akari Komura &amp; Ilana Waniuk<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:left;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%"> <p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:left;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">“to be held” is an installation performance that embodies assemblages of personal memories connected with hands. Tracing what our hands have touched, held, collected, written, and sounded, the installation integrates a collection of the personal objects, textiles, text, light, and shadow that pose three primary questions about the relationship between hands and memories: What was the first thing you touched today?; Who do you see in your hands?; What memories do your hands carry?<p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:left;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%"> Using field recordings, found objects, overhead projectors, violin, and voice, the performance will be an activation of the space as a score. As the performers interpret and realize the assemblage of objects and memories into sound, the piece also explores what a score can be and how it can be notated with gestural abstraction of objects.

Automata Arts

Tapetail at Automata presents: Akari Komura & Ilana Waniuk

504 Chung King Rd

Students, Seniors, and Underemployed

$15

General admission

$18

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