April 01, 2005
SRL PERFORMANCE: SATURDAY, APRIL 2 at 8:30 PM
SURVIVAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES
Organized by Susan Joyce
PERFORMANCE: SATURDAY, APRIL 2 at 8:30 PM
Dangerous Curve
1020 – E. 4th Place
Los Angeles, CA 90013
www.dangerourcurve.org
www.srl.org
Fringe Exhibitions is pleased to present a live performance by Survival Research Laboratories in the Los Angeles Downtown Arts District. Featuring the debut of the new Sneaky Soldiers, a remote controlled army of revolutionaries, a recent addition to the SRL machine family. Also appearing, some of the old favorites included in the show; screw machine, pitching machine, shock wave cannon, air launcher and several other machines along with the fabulous SRL crew from San Francisco.
Survival Research Laboratories was conceived and founded by Mark Pauline in 1978 as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to redirecting the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product, or warfare. SRL has staged over 50 mechanized presentations in the United States, Europe, and Japan that consist of a unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special effects devices, employed in developing themes of socio-political satire. Since its inception SRL has operated as a not for profit organization producing its own live mechanical performances.
SRL engages new vocabularies by integrating machines, theatrical sets and props, with dramatic, visual metaphors bringing to life, large-scale mechanical performances for audiences that rival other popular culture events. By taking things to extreme ends, SRL attempts to create new levels of sensory and emotional intensity. Using diverse disciplines such as performance, literature, and engineering, in concert with artistic expression, ideas are transformed into visceral experiences. Please visit the website at SRL dot org.
The new Sneaky Soldiers are available for sale!
Please contact fringexhibitions@aol.com.
818-414-9176
Comments
definitely going to this.
Posted by: brad ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://interactive.usc.edu/nav-commenters.gif)
at April 1, 2005 07:04 PM
http://laughingsquid.com/photos/srl_la_2005_setup/srl_la_2005_setup102.jpg
having an (I'm sure common) apprehensive feeling that someone may just die tonight at this.
Posted by: brad at April 2, 2005 02:20 PM
wow, this was intense. apocalypse now in little tokyo. left my camera behind, but if anyone tracks down or has media, please post it here.
Posted by: brad at April 2, 2005 11:57 PM
I got your media right here: http://flickr.com/photos/admurder/sets/206848/
Too bad I didn't have my good camera with me :(
Posted by: Aaron at April 3, 2005 11:38 AM
Posted by: brad at April 3, 2005 09:03 PM
Posted by: brad at April 3, 2005 09:04 PM
via :http://ivymike.blogspot.com/2005/04/los-angeles-survival-research-labs.html
At some point, the show ended, although it didn't feel like there was any obvious "finale moment". The crowd cheered, but we could all hear that the fire alarms in the Dangerous Curve building were going off from the smoke that had billowed back inside. This must have triggered a response from the fire department, because a minute later, firemen were threading their way through the crowd.
The audience started to disperse, and some people started crossing the barriers to get a close look at the robots. It seemed like this was OK, because a few SRL staff saw this and didn't seem to care. But then a minute later, someone got on a bullhorn and proclaimed something to the effect of, "Folks, thanks for coming out, but we're in trouble here, because we didn't inform the fire department about the show and didn't have a fire marshall on the scene. Please move back behind the barriers so we don't get in any more trouble." I guess the show was more underground than I thought.
Posted by: brad at April 3, 2005 09:14 PM
interesting photo from the event:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ekai/8504961/
Posted by: brad at April 6, 2005 10:02 PM
And look who captured it all in STEREO:
http://flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/8469683/in/photostream/
Posted by: sfisher at April 16, 2005 07:08 AM
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