INNER COURSE

www.innercourse.me

Tora Legendre Lopez

www.toralopez.com

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love + light

Tora Lopez

INNER COURSE

PANTIES FOR DIAMONDS -
A PSYCHODRAMATIC AUDITION FOR LOVE IN THE AGE OF ABANDONMENT

by: Tora Lopez + Rya Kleinpeter

http://www.planet-mag.com/2011/art/thomas-beale/inner-course/

http://jonathanferraragallery.blogspot.com/2011/07/jonathan-ferrara-with-tora-lopez-rya.html

http://altononthespot.blogspot.com/2011/07/inner-course-at-honey-space.html

http://genwhite.blogspot.com/2011/06/inner-course-tora-lopez-rya-kleinpeter.html

images by: Benjamin Heller

INNER COURSE

PANTIES FOR DIAMONDS -
A PSYCHODRAMATIC AUDITION FOR LOVE IN THE AGE OF ABANDONMENT

Tora Lopez + Rya Kleinpeter

Honey Space
www.honey-space.com
148 11th Ave (btw 21 - 22nd St)
New York City

JUNE 23 - July 28, 2011
for an appointment contact
innercourse@honey-space.com
walk-ins welcome

www.innercourse.me

INNER COURSE

PANTIES FOR DIAMONDS -
A PSYCHODRAMATIC AUDITION FOR LOVE IN THE AGE OF ABANDONMENT

Tora Lopez + Rya Kleinpeter

Honey Space
www.honey-space.com
148 11th Ave (btw 21 - 22nd St)
New York City

JUNE 23 - July 28, 2011
for an appointment contact
innercourse@honey-space.com
walk-ins welcome

www.innercourse.me

Act One: The Secretary

Act Two: The Softing

Act Three: The Audition

Performers

Tora Lopez + Rya Kleinpeter

Lisa Lozano, Anne Koch, Daphane Park. Amanda Kanter, Pamala Bishop, Benjamine Heller, Carlton de Woody, John Wells, Fauzeeya Hunter, Hellen Mathers, Matt Savitsky, Tyra Bombetto, Class Actress, and surprise cameos

MANY RUMORS OF RENNI ESRUOC

MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART, Tasmania

MANY RUMORS OF RENNI ESRUOC

by Tora Lopez and Rya Kleinpeter

Part One Red Telephone

Part Two Blood and Guts

Part Three I Want Your ESP

MANY RUMORS OF RENNI ESRUOC | Part One

Part 1 Red Telephone

An Australian rotary phone rings.

Callers from all over The United States and Australia respond to personal ads, posted inquires and statements. The calls are toll-free. The conversations remain anonymous -they are not recorded.

Jan 2011

MANY RUMORS OF RENNI ESRUOC | Part Two

Part Two Blood and Guts

Nine Tasmanian women.

The machine room is hidden within the inner walls of the museum. Amid the hum of the equipment, the women exercise, create and sing rounds of Tasmanian folk songs.

Guest Performers

Shae Thomas, Charlea Edwards, Helen Edwards, Bryony Geeves, Anna Kidd, Rose Kokkoris, Sara Mae Brown, Maggie Bell Brown

MANY RUMORS OF RENNI ESRUOC | Part Three

Part Three I Want Your ESP

A long dark corridor.

On a bed dressed in velvet hidden within the inner walls of the museum, Lopez and Kleinpeter take calls from all over The United States and Australia in response to personal ads, posted inquires and statements. The calls are toll-free. The viewer watches from afar -the conversations are miked throughout the corridor. The conversations are not recorded.

ARTIFACT OF INNER COURSE Nº 1

ARTIFACT OF INNER COURSE Nº 1

by Tora Lopez and Rya Kleinpter

72”x 24”

GELITIN we love you!

INNER COURSE

Tora Lopez + Rya Kleinpeter

Fetish #1 : Heaven + Earth

9' tall earth installation

sifted earth, water, sun, found posts, found bamboo, twine

Life is Art West

Ex Deo Libertas!

http://lifeisartfoundation.org/exhibitions/ex-deo-libertas

American Medicinals

graphic design

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/arts/design/12farm.html

http://americanmedicinals.com

The Pearl

4' diameter sphere study | Conscious Consumption Creation Act C.C.C.

A one month of Life is Art Collective residency waste, twine, plaster, salvaged mica and salvaged paint

A pearl is a defense mechanism to a potentially threatening irritant, a finding of perfection in disaster. They are used in many cultures as panaceas to hostile ailments and are universally collected as precious gemstones.Thirty days of the communal life went into The Pearl. On day one of the residency I eliminated all trashcans from the premises. Artists, guests and interns saved every piece of refuse and were asked to meticulously collect, clean and categorize the debris. Glass bottles were re-directed into drinking glasses, organic matter was composted and all remaining –plastic, paper, string, foil, fingernails, hair etcetera was consumed by The Pearl. Each evening I broke down and rolled the detritus into a twine wrapped sphere. Over the month the sphere grew in concentric circles until it took multiple people to manipulate. At the end of the residency, I coated the Pearl with plaster and finished the spherical study with mica and a mixture of salvaged paints.