artSpa currently exists as a shifting public & private forum,
subtly amplifying the connective tissue(s) of Los Angeles,
the art-and-then-somes -

artistswritersdancersmusicians[...] + practitionersofmassageyogamindfullnesswellness[...]

- weaving energetically among bodies and spirits and minds,
as they co-habit the contexts of the aesthetic, the individual, and the relational. . .

Sea and Space Explorations is pleased to host artSpa storefront, a month-long residency organized by Adam Overton that will feature a number of Los Angeles artists who also live, work, and/or dabble as healers, therapists, energeticists, and facilitators of all varieties.

artSpa plans to provide a full calendar of weekly events, including an artist-run walk-in clinic, experimental meditation groups, workshops, panels, performance events, and private bodywork sessions, all of which will be facilitated by artists, dancers, writers, performers, gallerists, et al, who currently work as bodyworkers, yoga teachers, psychics, psychologists, energy therapists, and so on.

artSpa Sundays and most events are free to attend,
though the cost of services and workshops may range from free, to donation, to $$, as determined by the artists involved.

For more info contact: Adam Overton at a@plus1plus1plus.org
or visit: http://plus1plus1plus.org/artSpa/artSpaS&S.php

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Jennifer Bruce haircuts. Sun. Nov. 4th.	Missincinatti performing. Sun. Nov. 4th
Blank Space performing. Fri. Nov. 9th	Michael Smoler Tarot reading. Sun. Nov. 11th
Lewis Keller performing. Sun. Nov. 11th.	Adam Overton chair massage. Eric km Clark perfoming in background. Sun. Nov. 11th
	Eric km Clark's Sensory Deprivation Orchestra. Fri. Nov. 16th
	Eric Lindley perfoming. Adam Overton giving a chair massage. Sun. Nov. 18th
David Burns Tarot Facials. Sun. Nov. 18th	Krystal Krunch. Sun. Nov. 18th
Krystal Krunch reading/advice session. Sun. Nov. 18th	Mark So performing. Sun. Nov. 18th
	Robby Herbst Blockages and Blockades. Sun. Nov. 25
Lara Bank Primal Scream Painting Booth. Sun. Nov. 25	Primal Scream Painting Booth. Sun. Nov. 25
Mark So performing. Sun. Nov. 25	Sarah Cole Private Staring Session. Sun. Nov. 25
New Age Aesthetics Panel. Sun. Nov. 25

artSpa Week 1

Sun Nov 4th*
  11am - Noon, Experimental Meditation Group

Is it limiting to believe that meditation is simply a form of sitting, breathing and quietude? Come join us for a meditation "open-mic" every Sunday morning and Tuesday evening in November as we explore a more expansive and experimental view of mindfulness & somatic practices. We welcome the serious and the irreverent, the traditional and the contemporary, the mundane and the imaginative. Bring a meditation or two, an open mind, and maybe a pillow if you care to sit...

  1 - 6pm, artSpa Walk-in Clinic
      Jennifer Bruce will be offering spectacular haircuts
      Missincinatti & Adam Overton will be performing experimental music & massage
      *Note: daylight savings time starts today !!

Tues Nov 6th
  7 - 8pm, Experimental Meditation Group
      Open-mic Meditations...

Thurs Nov 8th
  7 - 9pm, Workshop
    Foreign Exchanges: Mediating Conflict (an artist's perspective)
      with Dorit Cypis

cost: pay what you can
space is limited - please rsvp by at least one-day in advance: a@plus1plus1plus.org

Dorit Cypis [Founder] is an artist, Masters of Fine Art, California Institute of the Arts, and a mediator, Masters of Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University. Mining aesthetics, mediation and the somatic arts, her work explores the relationships between the psychological, the corporeal, and the political. Since the late 1970’s, Cypis’ museum exhibitions are immersive laboratories abstracting forms, positions, gestures, and meanings to shed light on the paradoxes of identity - while her public works/actions are social/ political extensions, mediating aesthetic abstractions into daily life. Here form truly meets function and ideology shifts back to experience. Foreign Exchanges brings together the best of her professional practices as artist, teacher and mediator.

Fri Nov 9th
  Friday Afternoon Bodywork

    Allison Danielle Behrstock & Adam Overton will be providing private, doubles massage (two     therapists, one client) with live experimental music on Friday the 9th and the 16th of November. The cost     is $200 for this unique 1-hour experience. Please contact for more info and to rsvp.

    This week we will be joined by the duo Missincinatti.

  
    8pm, Touchy-Feely Music / Performance Event
    Blank Space by Mariel Carranza, Svetlana Darsalia, Loren Hartman, Lindsey Walker, Adam Overton

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artSpa Week 2

Sun Nov 11th*
   11am - Noon, Experimental Meditation Group (see week one description for more details)
      1 - 6pm, artSpa Walk-in Clinic
      Michael Smoler will be providing Tarot readings and Reiki sessions
      Tyler Waxman will be facilitating Gestalt therapy Empty Chair demonstrations
      Lewis Keller, Eric km Clark & Adam Overton will be performing experimental music & massage
      *Note: today is Corduroy Appreciation Day

Tues Nov 13th
    7 - 8pm, Experimental Meditation Group
      Laughing Yoga with special guest David Dodge...
            * Please arrive with comfortable yoga-like clothes and a mat or blanket...

Thurs Nov 15th
    7 - 10pm, Workshop
      Touch Workshop with Adam Overton

cost: donations requested
space is limited to 7 to 10 couples, so please send an RSVP at least two days in advance to a@plus1plus1plus.org

Explore some basic DIY massage and touch techniques that don't require any cream, oil, or special equipment - all we'll need are our hands, fingers, elbows, gravity, a little common sense, and the willingness to listen to our partner. Please come with someone you trust, and bring one chair, a couple pillows, a blanket or two, and something comfortable to wear.

Adam Overton is a composer, performer, and a certified massage therapist working in and around Los Angeles.

Fri Nov 16th
  Friday Afternoon Bodywork

    Allison Danielle Behrstock & Adam Overton will be providing private, doubles massage (two     therapists, one client) with live experimental music on Friday the 9th and the 16th of November. The cost     is $200 for this unique 1-hour experience. Please contact for more info and to rsvp.

  8pm, Touchy-Feely Music / Performance Event
      Eric km Clark's Sensory Deprivation Orchestra
      and more...

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artSpa Week 3

Sun Nov 18th
    11am - Noon, Experimental Meditation Group (see week one description for more details)
    1 - 6pm, artSpa Walk-in Clinic
        Dave Burns will be providing TAROT FACIALS
        Krystal Krunch (aka Low Dose T Tranny P and Gang Asian Tanaka) does it again at artSpa 02 with Tn'T  EXPLOSIVE ADVICE: THE TEN MINUTE TAKEOVER
        Eric Lindley & Adam Overton will be performing experimental music & massage

    7pm - artSpa Panel: The Art of Exchange
    borders and boundaries, giving and taking, sharing and beyond: questions, strategies, suggestions...
    panelists:
        Lara Bank
        Marc Herbst
        Michael Parker
        Michael Smoler

Tues Nov 20th
    7 - 8pm, Experimental Meditation Group
        Open-mic Meditations... (see week one description for more details)

Thurs Nov 22nd
    5pm til late, An artists-in-exile Thanksgiving potluck
        Join us for food and maybe some music, performance, and screenings as well.
        Prepare yourself for the unveiling of Lara Bank's Primal Scream Painting Booth.

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artSpa Week 4

Sun Nov 25th
    11am - Noon, Experimental Meditation Group (see week one description for more details)
    1 - 6pm, artSpa Walk-in Clinic
        Lara Bank will be facilitating a Primal Scream Painting Booth
        Sarah Cole will be providing private staring sessions and one-on-one healing and wholing consultations
        Lindsey Walker will be offering polarity-based energy work sessions
        Mark So & Adam Overton will be performing experimental music & massage

    PLUS: 1PM Robby Herbst presents Blockages and Blockades - seeking to exorcise the state within: a participatory workshop on activating the radical within by attempting to overcome the fear of the state.

    7pm, artSpa Panel: New Age Aesthetics
        Artists talk about their work in relation to the history, language and practice of self-help, somatics and         psychedelia
            panelists:
                Karl Erickson
                Robby Herbst
                Krystal Krunch
                Carol McDowell

Tues Nov 27th
    7pm til late, Experimental Meditation Group
        with special guest Kahty Chenoweth leading a shamanistic journeying session

cost: FREE
no rsvp necessary, but is helpful for us to prepare:
suggested materials: a small pillow to sit on, blanket, blindfold, something to take notes, a rattle or drum (something percussive)

Kahty's art practice encompasses interactive and intimate sculpture, community projects and teaching. MFA: CalArts. Exhibitions: VAAARC, Vancouver, B.C.; Orange Co. Museum of Art; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Banff Art Centre, Banff, Canada; Patricia Faure Gallery and Special K Editions, Los Angeles. Independent projects: 50th Venice Biennale, Documenta 11, "Moisture" for CLUI, Hinkley, CA.

Thurs Nov 29th
    7 - 9pm, Yoga and Energetic Drawing
        with Nancy Popp

Cost: donations requested
Bring: an empty stomach
stretchy but not-too-loose clothing
a blanket and yoga mat
your favorite pen/pencil/charcoal/mark-making tool

Explore movement and energetic mark-making in your favorite traditional and not-so-traditional yoga poses.

Nancy Popp practices performance art and yoga in various places, but not always at the same time. She's shown in spots like Southern Exposure, 18th Street Arts Complex, the Getty Center, and the Armory Center for the Arts, and taught yoga for over 10 years. She currently holds classes at Dancing Shiva in Los Angeles.

www.dancingshiva.com
www.nancypopp.com

Fri Nov 30th
    8pm, Touchy-Feely Music / Performance Event
        The music of Tashi Wada, Mark So, Michael Pisaro, and Liam Mooney

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artSpa Final Week

Sun Dec 2nd
    11am - Noon, Experimental Meditation Group (see week one description for more details)
    1-6pm, artSpa Walk-in Clinic
        Michael Stein-Ross will be offering chair massage
        Lara Bank will be facilitating a Primal Scream Painting Booth
        Dwyer Kilcollin will be selling her acclaimed Aura Extract, and related products. Now is the time to invest in 100% pure artist's authenticity, live from the creator, founder, and president of AuraSolutions
        Sarah Cole & Adam Overton will be performing experimental music & massage

        PLUS: 5:30pm - Matias Viegener will lead a closing meditation / guided visualization

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