Friday Flights

Friday Flights

Friday Flights brings together a Network of Los Angeles-based musicians, visual artists, and creative thinkers for a vibrant evening of sounds and sights. Each session is hosted by artists whose work blurs the worlds of music and contemporary art. Consisting of anything but a traditional concert, they are invited to bring in a range of creative collaborators to develop the evening's program. Each of the hosts' list of collaborators are announced closer to the event dates. 

Friday Flights features a cash bar with local beers and bites, and runs from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Getty Center. Parking is $10 after 5:00 p.m. 
 

J. Paul Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1687

Total Freedom
Date: May 29, 2015
Time: 6–9 p.m.
Location: Museum Courtyard
Admission: Free; no ticket required. 

Ashland Mines, aka Total Freedom, is a DJ, producer, and infamous party-maker, who has been at the center of the recent revitalization of Los Angeles's club music scene. A founding member of Fade to Mind, which positions itself as a record label and a movement, his DJ sets build a hyperactive sonic collage sourced from online found sound and violent noise effects as well as dance beats and pop hits. Mines co-produced a regular party called Wildness, which took place at a MacArthur Park club that was home to a transgender Latin American immigrant community, and attracted LA's underground dance-music and queer-art scenes. This intersection of subcultures became the subject of an award-winning documentary in 2012 by Mines' collaborator, the visual artist Wu Tsang. Expanding on the film's themes, Mines collaborated with Tsang and singer Kelela for Breakdown, a performance at London's Tate Modern in 2013. Mines's work has increasingly surfaced in the art world by curating a performance marathon at New York's Suzanne Geiss Gallery, and through collaborations with contemporary artists like Ryan Trecartin. He is currently included in Surround Audience, the New Museum's Triennial, a major exhibition of early-career artists which opened earlier this year in New York.

Lucky Dragons
Date: June 26, 2015
Time: 6–9 p.m.
Location: Museum Courtyard
Admission: Free; no ticket required. 

Lucky Dragons is an ongoing collaboration between Los Angeles-based artists Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck. Active since 2000, Lucky Dragons is known for an open and participatory approach to making music, innovative live shows, and playful, humanistic use of digital tools. Their radical and collaborative approach pushes music into an art context effortlessly, and their thoughtful and unpredictable performances have been welcomed in leading institutions and experimental art spaces alike. Both Rara and Fischbeck also work as curators, archivists, writers, and visual artists, while their music practice continually allows them to bind their fascinations and those of the creative network around them together. Recently, Lucky Dragons' performance Actual Reality was held at the Hammer Museum in conjunction with the Made in LA exhibition. They have presented their work at the Whitney Biennial, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, New York's The Kitchen, LACMA and the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Ducktails
Date: July 24, 2015
Time: 6–9 p.m.
Location: Museum Courtyard
Admission: Free; no ticket required. 

Lucky Dragons is an ongoing collaboration between Los Angeles-based artists Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck. Active since 2000, Lucky Dragons is known for an open and participatory approach to making music, innovative live shows, and playful, humanistic use of digital tools. Their radical and collaborative approach pushes music into an art context effortlessly, and their thoughtful and unpredictable performances have been welcomed in leading institutions and experimental art spaces alike. Both Rara and Fischbeck also work as curators, archivists, writers, and visual artists, while their music practice continually allows them to bind their fascinations and those of the creative network around them together. Recently, Lucky Dragons' performance Actual Reality was held at the Hammer Museum in conjunction with the Made in LA exhibition. They have presented their work at the Whitney Biennial, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, New York's The Kitchen, LACMA and the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

5 Everyday
Date: August 28, 2015
Time: 6–9 p.m.
Location: Museum Courtyard
Admission: Free; no ticket required. 

Claire L. Evans and Jona Bechtolt make up the band YACHT and, in addition to releasing five studio albums largely with legendary dance label DFA Records, they perform, make objects, events, texts, video, products, websites, and other miscellaneous things. Recently, they launched an app called 5 Every Day, a daily list of five interesting things to do in Los Angeles culled from their own favorite places and happenings in the city, often digging into lesser-known histories and unearthing obscure "only-in-LA" events. But the app isn't just a simple calendar—through its unique voice it reveals the expansive knowledge and infectious open-hearted curiosity these musicians embody. Given their penchant for covering a mix of visual art, film, music, sci-fi, comedy, and even some oddball Californalia, 5 Every Daywill undoubtedly bring a shrewd and surprising program to the Getty.