BALLS & BUNDLES
MIKE MOLLETT
March 12 - April 18
Recent sculpture, BALLS & BUNDLES, consists of bound or twisted together elements of sticks, branches, bamboo, twigs, stalks, pipes, rope, cables, hoses, wires, cords & recyclables, etc. mostly from his home & gardens. The Balls are autobiographial. Ball commissions are biographical.
Concurrently with BALLS & BUNDLES, Mollett is co-organizing a 15 artist exhibition at pLAyLAnd, an Eagle Rock DIY pop-up space. April 3 - May 31. Mollett will have a 20' bundle in this show. The L.A. MUDPEOPLE will create a site specific mudroom, & will also perform.
MIKE MOLLETT is a founding member & leader of the L.A. MUDPEOPLE. Since 1988, the L.A. MUDPEOPLE have evolved into being non-verbal, slow-moving, improvisational & curious. The L.A. MUDPEOPLE are the newest tribe of the Los Angeles River. THE L.A. MP have been seen from the Venice Boardwalk to the streets of Hollywood, Downtown L.A., Silverlake, Reno, NV & the Big Island of Hawaii... They have been up & down the Los Angeles River, headwaters to ocean. Walkabouts & non-performances @ the LA Convention Center, Downtown Public Library & Bunker Hill, raves, clubs, parks, festivals (Mask Festival, L.A. Arts Festival, Solstice Celebration, Nisei Festival), etc… They have been featured in National Geographic Magazine (June 1992) & various newspapers, cable & tv shows in L.A., NYC, France, Reno, Hawaii, etc. MP artifacts, fetishes & other documentation have been exhibited at UCLA & Cal State L.A.
Mollett is also a co-founder & member of the CARMA BUMS (w/ SA Griffin, Doug Knott, Scott Wannberg & Michael Lane Bruner), a performance poetry troupe-- 1989-present. The CB's have toured California, the Westcoast , the Southwest, & recently invaded Kansas City (August 6-9, '09) for The Unregulated Word (a national poetry festival). Twisted Cadillac-A Spoken Word Odyssey was published by Sacred Beverage Press. The CARMA BUMS have a section in the seminal anthology The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. The CARMA BUMS' loose, mostly free formed style evolved from an earlier, rehearsed incarnation The LOST TRIBE ('84 to 89's).
Mollett was co-host, performer in Victoria Looseleaf's long-running cable show THE LOOSELEAF REPORT, & a performance art regular on the early to mid-80's cutting-edge cable TV music show New Wave Theater, director/editor David Jove, host Peter Ivers. Mollett has co-produced art/music festivals: DADAFEST-LA, 1980, & TARGET L.A. (anti-nuclear), 1982. Mollett co-directed ZTZU, a gallery & performance space w/Neal Taylor, '83-85. ZTZU toured Canada w/ 2 residencies, creating art, installations, & performances.
Mollett was an active player in the international Mail Art Network in the late 70's & 80's. He produced scores of stickers & xerographic prints, hundreds of postcards, dozens of books, catalogues, & rubberstamps. Photos, other documentation, artifacts & manuals of his 64 V.W. BUS Project were included in local L.A. & international exhibitions, books & catalogues. The late Judith Hoffberg (art librarian, lecturer/curator, publisher of UMBRELLA) considered the 64 V.W BUS a book. |
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