August

005: RIB SPACE

Emory Hall, Chris Johst

August 30th - 6:00 - 10:00


join us on Labor Day Weekend for an Americana inspired one-night performance and edible installation created by Emory Hall and Chris Johst. Emory Hall will prepare Kansas City style ribs displayed on sculptural plates, alongside 3D printed and digital works by Chris Johst. A limited run of sculptural plates and 3D printed objects will be available for sale. RIBS WILL BE SERVED.

September

006: ECO ENCODED

Mischa Kuma, Isabel Beavers, John Threat,
others TBA

Friday September 13th – 6:00 - 10:00 (reception)
September 14-15 // September 21-22 (Gallery Hours)


Rip Space transforms into a meditative sonic and visual environment where speculative narratives frame new media work which combines environmental research on deep ocean mining, oil extraction, and ocean noise pollution to imagine interspecies collaboration, more than human sentience, and eco-futures of increased hybridization between nature and technology.

October

007 : FROM URL TO IRL : NEW ART CITY x RIP SPACE

Carrie Chen, Kiki Wu, Soto Sosa x Kat Sung, Serene Blumenthal, Yuehao Jiang

October 12th 6:00 - 10:00 (LIVE EVENT)
October 13th - 1:00 - 6:00 (GALLERY HOURS)


RIP SPACE teams up with New Art City Virtual Art Space for a group exhibition and live A/V event showcasing an offline archive of spaces by LA-based new media artists who have previously showcased their work using the virtual toolkit, connecting cyber and IRL communities. This collection will be displayed on New Art City’s Memory Terminal and distributed for the first time as a wearable physical edition.

November

008: COMING SOON

As a small scale self-funded cultural space we have been reflecting on what our presence and power can do in the expression of solidarity with the people of Palestine. Now is the time for all cultural organizations and institutions to stand in solidarity with Palestine during the Israeli occupation and genocide, no matter their scale or funding structure. With this statement, RIP SPACE commits to adhering to the Palestinian international call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) and to complying with the guidelines of the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). RIP SPACE stands in full solidarity with Palestine and refuses any sort of normalization projects that artwash/whitewash the oppression.


PACBI was launched in Ramallah in 2004 and aims to draw a line between culture workers and the actions of governments funding and endorsing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israel. PACBI asks institutions to refuse support from the state of Israel and reject projects that normalize the occupation of Palestine and dispossession of Palestinians. PACBI is institutional and does not target individuals as such. Committed to freedom of expression as stipulated in the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), PACBI rejects, on principle, boycotts of individuals based on their opinion or identity (such as citizenship, race, gender, or religion).


We encourage other organizations to not wait and to endorse PACBI now! For more information write to PACBI [at] wawog [dot] com.


Learn more about PACBI here: https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi + listen to Radio Alhara.


is a project space in the Arts District of Downtown LA centering physical presence as an optimal mode of idea and knowledge exchange — rooted in principles of experimentation colliding with artistic explorations of technology and emergent paradigms in a radical third space. A flip on WIP or work in process, RIP or riot in process is a platform where process, ideation, and experimentation override product and finalization + the spirit of riotous disobedience and disorder. rip space converges as a


// hackerspace
// space for showcasing experiments with new media, screens, and other emergent art forms
// platform for expanded notions of the technological that includes food, design, and sensory experiences
//social arena for the release of creative and intellectual energies

team:


+ Vera Petukhova

is an independent curator, from Minsk, Belarus currently based between Brooklyn and Los Angeles – focusing on performance, moving image and new media. Her curatorial interests include experimental practices, futurity, food, sensory and immersive experiences. She received her MA in Curatorial Practice from The School of Visual Art in 2017 and has worked with the curatorial teams at Visions2030, Performa , The Kitchen, Northwest Film Forum, Tribeca Film Festival. She has curated exhibitions for Earth Edition at CalArts, CA; Young Curators, New Ideas V: Detroit Art Week; AC Institute; CP Projects Space and SVA Gramercy Gallery. Her writing and curatorial projects have been published in the Art Newspaper, Blouin Artinfo, OnCurating Magazine, and Performa Magazine.

+ John Threat

John Lee is a world renowned computer hacker, a writer, director, and a radical creative futurist. He’s been on the cover for Wired magazine and 60 Minutes and was generated in the streets of Brooklyn, New York. He speaks at global conferences, and develops art, film, technological based projects and experiential events as part of his practice as a hacker. A visiting professor, investor, a member of think tanks, artist in residence at PS1/Moma and probably some other things that have to be redacted for security reasons.

+ Maisa Imamović

Web designer/developer and a researcher interested in building hybrid publishing formats. Maisa has written code in collaboration with artists and collectives including Hackers&Designers, Ali Eslami, Marlies van Hak, VEIN Agency, and was published in Kajet, Simulacrum, Forum, TAAK, Real Review, NXS World, Metropolis M, Other Worlds. Her first book was published by the Institute of Network Cultures in 2022. Since 2019, Maisa has worked as a self-employed web designer + developer, and senior researcher at the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Arts.