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The Benefit of Friends Collected
Panel and White Elephant Party←→Dear Friends and Everybody,
Join us to celebrate The Benefit of Friends Collected, Vol. 2 and its contributors on Thursday, May 28th.
We’re collecting friends together, and everyone will benefit.
Thursday. May 28, 7:30 PM
Hosted by LA Contemporary Archive and Ghebaly Gallery
2245 E Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90021In case you missed it, this year Project X Projects published The Benefit of Friends Collected, Vol. 2, featuring 45 artists writing about each others’ work. The artists were randomly assigned their subjects.
The book’s organizer, Jesse Benson, will host a short panel discussion about the book with some of the contributors.
Followed by a massive White Elephant Gift Exchange with book contributors—a fun way to collectively explore the issues of the randomly assigned gift of dialogue that is key to the book’s structure.** Bring a wrapped “gift” for the White Elephant Exchange. **
Wrapped gift guidelines: Your wrapped gift should be technically valued under $25 (although it can be priceless by other indicators): something funny, weird, arty, junky, or actually nice.What’s a “White Elephant Gift Exchange”?
A White Elephant Gift Exchange is a popular Holiday event where people vie to walk away with the best present. It also goes by Yankee Swap, Dirty Santa, and a plethora of other names. More details below.There will be drinks and food, too.
Hope to see you!
Very best,
Shana & JesseList of Contributors: Kelly Akashi, Animal Charm, David Berezin, Simon Bill, Sergio Bromberg, Kathrin Burmester, John Burtle, Jedediah Caesar, Joshua Callaghan, Anthony Carfello, Rachel Foullon, Joey Frank, Liz Glynn, Patrick Goddard, Patrick Hill, John Houck, Bettina Hubby, Jamie Isenstein, Vishal Jugdeo, Stanya Kahn, William Kaminski, Nicholas Kersulis, Alice Könitz, Jason Kunke, Gabriel Kuri, Lisa Lapinski, Caitlin Lonegan, Marie Lorenz, Molly Lowe, Brian Mann, Emily Mast, Nicole Miller, Joshua Nathanson, Jed Ochmanek, Virginia Poundstone, Sarah Rara, Elise Rasmussen, Isaac Resnikoff, Matt Rich, Amanda Ross-Ho, Miljohn Ruperto, Asha Schechter, Alex Slade, Jill Spector, Clarissa Tossin
White Elephant Gift Exchange Rules:
1. Each player brings one wrapped gift to contribute to a common pool.
The gift exchange organizer should provide information on what type of gift people should bring.2. Each player writes their name on a slip of paper and gives it to the organizer.
3. The organizer pulls the first player’s name from hat.
The first player selects a gift from the pool and opens it.
Make sure everyone can see the gift!4. The first player picks the second player’s name from the hat.
Each player going forward will draw the subsequent name.5. The following players can choose to either pick an unwrapped gift from the pool or steal a previous player’s gift.
Anyone who gets their gift stolen in this way can do the same – choose a new gift or steal from someone else.To keep things moving along, there are a couple of limits on gift swapping:
A present can only be stolen once per turn, which means players who have a gift stolen from them have to wait to get it back.
After three swaps, the turn automatically comes to an end (otherwise things could drag on for a long time).6. After all players have had a turn, the first player gets a chance to swap the gift he or she is holding for any other opened gift.
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2018
- 02.07.18
X-TRA seeks interns - 03.11.18
Andrea Fraser / Lecture at ICA LA - 04.09.18
Spring Launch Event
with Lex Brown and Leslie Dick - 04.29.18
Martine Syms / Screening and Conversation - 05.01.18
XX-TRA 20th Anniversary Benefit
- 02.07.18
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2017
- 01.18.17
Screening and Conversation with Aria Dean, Erin Chrisotvale, and Ulysses Jenkins - 01.23.17
CALL FOR INTERNS - 02.11.17
grantLOVE x Alisa Ratner prints to benefit X-TRA - 02.25.17
X-TRA presents ARTISTS’ BOOKS CHANGE LIVES at LAABF 2017 - 04.22.17
X-TRA Spring Launch Event: The Heart and the Halt - 06.30.17
A.L. Steiner
ARTIST WRITES Lecture #1 - 08.03.17
X-TRA Summer Event
Looking at Performance: Guts, Lust and Kinks - 08.31.17
20th Anniversary Reader Sale - 09.05.17
CALL FOR INTERNS - 10.07.17
Say Hello to the 20th Volume of XX-TRA! - 11.10.17
Fall Launch Event: with Candice Lin and Miljohn Ruperto - 11.21.17
Give a little XX-TRA this year. - 12.01.17
X-TRA Thanks for the Anniversary Celebration and Party Pics!!
- 01.18.17
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2016
- 02.13.16
Immaterials and Proposals at the LA Art Book Fair - 02.19.16
MEET & GREET 2016 - 03.13.16
LA in the AUGHTS: Benefit Auction and Party for X-TRA - 04.23.16
X-TRA Spring Launch! - 06.16.16
Call for submissions - 07.17.16
X-TRA Editions: MARK HAGEN - 07.17.16
Summer Launch: Hole Up with
X-TRA & Mark Hagen at ARTBOOK - 08.07.16
Walkthrough of Barbara Kasten: Stages with Susanna Newbury - 08.15.16
READER SURVEY - 09.15.16
X-TRA at NY ART BOOK FAIR - 10.22.16
Art Book Fair in Chinatown - 11.03.16
X-TRA Fall Launch with Sarah Conaway, Travis Diehl and Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal - 12.31.16
Art Isn’t Easy: End of Year Fundraiser and Membership Drive
- 02.13.16
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2015
- 01.29.15
X-TRA and Project X at the LA ART BOOK FAIR! - 01.30.15
The Benefit of Friends Collected, Vol. 2: Book Fair Reception - 01.31.15
1 IMAGE 1 MINUTE at the LAABF - 03.11.15
Project X Forum 1: The First Show, 1992 - 03.18.15
Panel Discussion: On Art Practice, Theory, and the PhD. - 03.18.15
Project X Desk Writer in Residence: Christiane Kues - 04.15.15
Project X Forum 2: FAR Bazaar - 05.09.15
X-TRA Spring Launch: The Conversation - 05.19.15
Project X Forum 3: XTREME Research - 05.28.15
The Benefit of Friends Collected
Panel and White Elephant Party - 06.30.15
Project X Forum 4: Suitably Appointed - 07.29.15
Project X Forum 5: Revisiting “Program for Paradise” - 08.19.15
Project X Forum 6: Pair-A-Sites,
with Charles Gaines and Kerry Tribe - 10.14.15
Project X Forum 8: Lost and Found with Nao Bustamante, Soo Kim, and HK Zamani - 10.19.15
X-TRA Launch: Fall together - 11.09.15
Xtreme Archive: Project X 1992-1999 - 11.21.15
Project X Forum 9: East of Eden, Profane Gardens - 11.24.15
Spend Money on Amazon, Amazon Gives X-TRA Money - 12.09.15
XTREME Launch Party!
- 01.29.15
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2014
- 01.29.14
SCALE: Launch Event for X-TRA 16.2 - 02.02.14
Cadavere Quotidiano: The first Project X Projects Paperback - 02.28.14
LA in the 90s : Benefit Auction and Party for X-TRA and Project X - 04.26.14
Cadavere Telephone: X-TRA and Cadavere Quotidiano Launch Party - 04.30.14
2014 X-TRA Reader Survey! - 06.28.14
Artist’s Tag Sale - 08.24.14
X-TRA Summer Launch in Berlin - 09.15.14
The Project X Desk at Outpost@Armory: Johanna Hedva - 09.17.14
X-TRA and Project X at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair - 09.26.14
X-TRA and Project X at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair - 10.13.14
HELL: Shanaynay Library Party and Cadavere Quotidiano Paris Launch - 10.28.14
Panel Discussion: What does art practice have to do with political activism? - 11.01.14
X-TRA Fall Launch: Leslie Dick and Zackary Drucker in conversation
- 01.29.14
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2013
- 02.01.13
X-TRA at Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair - 02.13.13
X-TRA at the College Art Association Conference in New York - 04.04.13
X-TRA presents Dont Rhine and Clean Needles Now - 04.21.13
The X-TRA Art Sale - 08.14.13
The Summer Event!: Conversation and Beer. - 11.03.13
Destruction! And Monsters! Fall Launch Party and Screening - 12.31.13
3 Ways to Make X-TRA’s Year End Right.
- 02.01.13
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2012
- 01.24.12
X-TRA presents Chinese Cocktail, a concert by Robert Wilhite - 02.23.12
The Kitchen Table, reprise - 06.10.12
Surfing & Smoking - 07.20.12
Immaterials and Proposals, part deux - 09.27.12
X-TRA at the NY Art Book Fair - 10.01.12
15 Years in 15 Days: Day 1/ Stephen Berens presents The Los Angeles Times and Me - 10.01.12
X-TRA’s 15 Years in 15 Days - 10.02.12
15 Years in 15 Days: Day 2 / Why Start An Art Magazine Now? (1997 / 2012) - 10.03.12
15 Years in 15 Days: Day 3 / Debate Drawing Party - 10.04.12
15 Years in 15 Days: Day 4 / MAK Center to support ARTISTS + INSTITUTIONS: Common Ground “What is the Common Ground for Artists and Institutions?” - 10.05.12
15 Years in 15 Days: Day 5 / Revisiting the revisiting of feminism. - 10.06.12
15 Years in 15 Days: Day 6 / X-TRA celebrates MATERIAL. - 10.07.12
15 Years in 15 Days: Day 7 / Jan Tumlir presents Black and White Paintings and Albums, a talk with images and music. - 10.08.12
William Leavitt presents Habitat - 10.09.12
Micol Hebron presents 1 Image 1 Minute - 10.10.12
The Art of Criticism, a panel discussion Organized and moderated by Damon Willick with Sharon Mizota, Doug Harvey, and Aram Moshayedi. - 10.11.12
“Country Lessons” hosted by Vanessa Place - 10.12.12
Performance: Leslie Dick’s “Boundary Lines” & PDAs by CamLab - 10.13.12
FIRE IN THE LIBRARY: FIND BIG MIND, a cross discipline talk influenced by the work of Eugenia Butler - 10.14.12
Chinese Cocktail listening party with Robert Wilhite - 10.14.12
X-TRA=XV CAKE PARTY!!! - 12.06.12
X-TRA hosts Happy Hour at Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum - 12.14.12
Launch Event: X-TRA at Armory Center for the Arts with Marcos Lutyens
- 01.24.12
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2011
- 01.28.11
X-TRA’s 1 IMAGE 1 MINUTE 2011 - 04.02.11
Screening of the films of Gary Beydler - 05.02.11
Amazon will donate to X-TRA every time you buy something using our link! - 09.25.11
Artists & Writers Picnic - 10.11.11
X-TRA at The Bash, the Co/Lab party for Art Platform - 12.08.11
Immaterials and Proposals at Human Resources
- 01.28.11
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1997
- 01.01.97
X-TRA Contributors
- 01.01.97