02/08/2026
See you tonight!
pehrspace presents an album release concert for Ian Wellman, with additional performances by Underwater Garden Ensemble Jen Boyd and film loops by Kate Lain.
Kate Lain is a Pasadena-based artist working primarily in experimental documentary film and video. In much of her moving image work, Lain creates portraits of everyday spaces, phenomena, and people, using abstraction as a way to invite critical engagement. Her practice is rooted in observation and documentation, particularly of so-called “natural” landscapes in the Los Angeles area. She is interested in the capacities and limitations of documentation and in problematizing notions of objectivity. She sees many of her films as abstracted documents that point beyond that which they document while also calling attention to their own construction. Her work is process-driven, and she approaches much of her work as collaborations with places, with material properties, with objects, with natural and chemical processes, with weather and other conditions, and with elements of chance that arise from all of these. Lain's film work has screened at festivals and venues internationally
smoke and ash loops is a changing arrangement of a set of looped short film strips that are physical records of the Bobcat Fire of September 2020 that burned over 100,000 acres in the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles. Kate Lain created the film strips in Pasadena between September 8 & 14. Lain created these cameraless images using clear 16mm film leader, cyanotype chemicals, and glue. The cyanotype strips were made with the smoke that filled the air, ash that fell at Lain's apartment, whatever sunlight made it through the thick smoke, and tap water. The non-photographic strips were made by placing glue-covered film strips outside in smoky conditions to catch falling ash and other material falling from the air.
8:00p Doors
8:30p Jen Boyd
9:15p Ian Wellman
10:00p Underwater Garden Ensemble
21+ | $15 in the Archives
parking is available across the street behind the church (lot with blue gates)
Hope to see you there!
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