4ever JOAN Benefit Party-Experiences for Auction!
We’ll be auctioning off Artist Experiences during our 4ever JOAN Benefit Party on Sunday, September 29th from many artists in our community!
We hope you make a bid during the silent auction on one or more of these exciting experiences detailed below.
1. Ron Athey
Body works session (auctioning 2 private sessions)
90-minute session of Ron Athey’s Structural Bodywork. Super deep, super slow modality, postural integration, myofascial release, nerve flossing, specializing in TMJ disorder, neck’n’shoulders tension, sciatica, and killer myofascial facelift. Not for the tender, but always with love and respect for the body.
Ron Athey has been making performance work since 1981, focusing on esoteric christianity, ecstasis, archetype work, and immersive workshopping. He has collaborated with Hermes Pittakos, Opera Povera, Juliana Snapper, Julie Tolentino, Carmina Escobar, and the late Lawrence Steger. Recent projects include Athey and Pittakos’ Hierophant Workings.
2. Eden Batki
Private cooking class
Cooking class inspired by Eden Batki’s Hungarian-Jewish heritage and focusing on vegetables and grains, followed by a meal together. The session is 3 hours and offered for 4 people.
Eden Batki is a peripatetic multidisciplinary artist , storyteller, and consultant working in photography, food, and film. Batki gets commissioned to create dinners with and for other artists in galleries and homes internationally. She is currently working on a project researching her Hungarian roots in relation to food and land.
3. Seth Bogart
Pet portrait or a portrait of a person with their pet
Artist Seth Bogart will paint a portrait of you and your beloved pet at home. Or it could be a painting of just your pet! Or just you even, but that would be a lot less fun for the artist. The painting will be done in sumi ink and/or gouache.
Seth Bogart is a multidisciplinary artist known for his ceramic book sculptures, featuring cult finds and works by literary icons like Joan Didion and Susan Sontag. Emerging from the Bay Area’s queer punk scene in the late 1990s, his practice encompasses music, ceramics, painting, performance, and clothing design. His work has been exhibited at venues including Participant INC in New York City, MOCA in Los Angeles, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
4. Jibz Cameron / Dynasty Handbag
A pair of tickets to Weirdo Night
2 tickets to Weirdo Night! A popular long-running freak forward variety show hosted and curated by Dynasty Handbag that goes regularly and intentionally off the rails.
Jibz Cameron is a writer, performer, visual artist and actor. She is most well known for her multi-media performance work as alter ego Dynasty Handbag, which has spanned over 20 years and has been presented at arts venues such as The New Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA, The Hammer Museum, REDCAT, BAM, Centre Pompidou, among others.
5. Jibz Cameron
Drawing: Please Touch My Head, 2024
Details: 5.5 x 8.5 inches; ink on paper
Jibz Cameron is a writer, performer, visual artist and actor. She is most well known for her multi-media performance work as alter ego Dynasty Handbag, which has spanned over 20 years and has been presented at arts venues such as The New Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA, The Hammer Museum, REDCAT, BAM, Centre Pompidou, among others.
6. Mira Dancy
Altadena hike and in-situ drawing session
Accompany artist Mira Dancy on a winding, rugged walk through some of the more secluded trails of Rubio Canyon in Altadena, as she seeks out a spot to make a group of drawings in situ, observing and recording the plants and trees. Take home a drawing of your choosing, ink on paper, 19 x 24 inches. Total duration: 2-3 hours and open to an individual or group of up to 3 people.
Mira Dancy lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Her practice engages and recalibrates the historical trope of woman-as-subject. Across multiple mediums—painting, mural, drawing, and sculpture—Dancy maintains her bold, linear approach to create intricately layered compositions.
7. Pippa Garner
Temporary Flash Tattoos-for sale 2 tattoos for $20! (not an auctioned item)
Pippa Garner’s limited edition flash tattoos feature sketches and drawings from the artist’s extensive archive. These sketches were featured in the 2018 exhibition, Immaculate Misconceptions by Garner at JOAN, which spanned the six-decade career of the prolific and polymathic artist and inventor.
Pippa Garner has lived and worked primarily in California for more than fifty years and is currently based in Long Beach. Her drawings and sculptures frequently take the form of bizarro parodies of cultural obsessions with products that promise to improve your life, health, and happiness.
Intuitive reading session
A 90-minute reading of the energy body using the seven chakra system. This is not a traditional predictive reading. Hartman will read your relationship to your inner vision and self-expression; your connection with spirit and the divine; your sense of giving and receiving love, your self-esteem and relationship to work and career; sexuality and creativity, and to your family and survival needs, among other topics. The information you receive is specific to you, your history, needs, gifts, and skills.
Asher Hartman is an artist and intuitive with degrees from UCLA and CalArts. His visual theater practice combines intuition with research, emphasizing a rigorous writing and rehearsal process. For over 14 years, he has taught intuition development—first as part of the duo Krystal Krunch (with Haruko Tanaka) and now in workshops for actors and artists.
Astrology reading Zoom session
A 90-minute astrology reading called The Deep, covering 3-5 questions or topics sent in several days in advance of the reading. “Note: I’m an ancient bitch who believes in doom. Which means I’m not the reader for everyone. I tunnel into the more obscure parts of the chart, I will turn you inside out, and I will always see the painful stuff first. Over the years, I’ve become known in my community as the person you come to when your whole life has fallen apart, or you’re carrying some heavy ghosts and intergenerational power-curses, or maybe you’re someone who sometimes gets flashes of something you cannot explain but you feel the totality of this unknowability that also feels like home. So, hello, here I am with you in the dark, welcome.” -Johanna Hedva
Johanna Hedva is a Korean American writer, artist, and musician based in Los Angeles and Berlin. Their upcoming nonfiction collection, How To Tell When We Will Die, releases in 2024. Hedva’s work has been featured at Gropius Bau, the ICA London, and the 14th Shanghai Biennial, among others.
Personalized movement notation portrait
A personalized movement notation portrait by artist and choreographer, Madeline Hollander. The drawing will depict a series of individualized moves, performed by the subject, that will be transcribed onto paper using Hollander’s choreographic scoring technique.
Madeline Hollander is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in ballet and degrees in cultural anthropology and visual arts from Barnard College (BA) and Bard College (MFA). Hollander’s work has also been featured in group exhibitions at the Brandhorst Museum, the Performa Biennial, and the Whitney Biennial, among others.
11. Young Joon Kwak
Body molding session
You and your beloved will be invited to Young Joon Kwak’s studio for an unforgettable, intimate experience. Kwak will guide you through a body molding session, capturing the tenderness of your connection—perhaps the gentle clasp of hands or another physical touch. From your mold, Kwak will craft a delicate resin cast sculpture for you to cherish, preserving and honoring this shared act of love. Let this be a timeless memento of the love you hold for one another, preserved in art and memory. Total duration: 1-2 hours.
Young Joon Kwak holds an MFA from the University of Southern California and an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago. They are the founder of Mutant Salon and lead performer in the electronic-dance-noise band Xina Xurner. Kwak’s work is featured in the collections of the Crocker Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, and Speed Art Museum.
12. Julianne Lee x The Institute for Art and Olfaction
Perfume making session
A Private Blending Session led by perfumer Julianne Lee, on behalf of the Institute for Art and Olfaction. This is a unique experience hosted at the Institute for Art and Olfaction, a nonprofit in Los Angeles devoted to access, education, and experimentation with scent. The Director of Projects, Julianne Lee, will be your olfactory guide for this private session introducing you to the world of aromatic materials used in perfumery. You will learn how to blend and create your own custom scent to take home in a mini spray vial. Total duration: 1.5-2 hours, for up to 2 people.
Julianne Lee is an LA-based perfumer, artist, and writer from Seoul. Lee holds a B.A in visual art and philosophy from Bennington College, and an International Technical Degree in Fragrance Creation and Sensory Evaluation from the Grasse Institute of Perfumery. She is a teacher and Director of Projects at the Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles.
13. Anna Sew Hoy
Concrete poem portrait
In saturated watercolor on fine paper, Anna Sew Hoy will compose a portrait based on notes taken while in phone conversation with you.
Anna Sew Hoy utilizes sculpture, ceramics, public art, and performance to connect with our environment, and to demonstrate the power found in the fleeting and handmade. Sew Hoy’s work is in the collections of the Hammer Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego.
14. Los Angeles Dance Project
A pair of tickets to L.A. Dance Project
A pair of tickets to Los Angeles Dance Project’s evening length performance, The Missing Mountain, by BOBBI JENE SMITH + OR SCHRAIBER. The Missing Mountain contains elements, themes, and moments danced or dreamed in the companion pieces – Lost Mountain and Caldera. Performances run from December 12 – December 21, 2024.
L.A. Dance Project is a nonprofit dance company, founded in 2012 and led by Artistic Director Benjamin Millepied. Since opening its studio and performance space in downtown Los Angeles in 2017, the company has been dedicated to artistic innovation and excellence in contemporary dance, exploring the boundaries of movement, creativity, and expression.
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