Venice Beach Biennial boardwalk, and Katie’s astral instruments

…not to be confused with that other thing going on over there in Italy – casually and graciously infiltrates, while paying homage to, the existing landscape of art, craft, performance and booths along the Venice Beach boardwalk this weekend organized by curator Ali Subotnick as a part of the Hammer Museums’s Los Angeles Biennial exhibition “Made in L.A.” featuring some favorite friends and local artists like Lisa Anne Auerbach & Robby Herbst, Jedediah Caesar, Eve Fowler, Matthias Merkel Hess, Joel Kyack & Michael Decker, Carter Mull, Renée Petropoulos, Ry Rocklen, Erika Vogt, plus old friend and college classmate Katie Grinnan who presented her ambitious new project Astrology Orchestra featurning handmade instruments based on astrological signs and planets…which we hear will soon be traveling – apropriately enough – to Joshua Tree’s Integretron – whose design is based on ‘the telepathic directions from extraterrestrials….originally designed by (George) Van Tassel as a rejuvenation and time machine…the only all-wood, acoustically perfect sound chamber in the U.S.)