The occasion features a E book and Vinyl Launch, Movie Screening, and Dialog At MoCA Grand Avenue / Ahmanson Auditorium in Los Angeles with an afterparty to instantly comply with at La Cita

Free With RSVP Right here

At the moment, creator Harper Simon publicizes a sequence of occasions to rejoice the publication of Meditations on Crime. Kicking issues off on July 8 from 4-6pm PDT at MOCA Grand Avenue / Ahmanson Auditorium in Los Angeles is a premiere screening of Meditations on Crime, a dialog with its administrators Simon and Jonah Freeman moderated by Hat & Beard Editor and Writer J.C. Gabel, adopted by a ebook signing. Extra info is offered right here. The occasion is free with RSVP, which may be carried out right here. 

Following the occasion will likely be an after get together at La Cita (336 S. Hill Road) from 6-9pm that includes a musical efficiency by Simon and Meditations on Crimecontributors Jennifer Herrema (Royal Trux), Geneva Jacuzzi, Paz Lenchantin (Pixies), Carla Azar (Autolux), Cole Alexander (Black Lips) and different particular friends. 

That is simply the primary of a number of occasions deliberate to rejoice the discharge, with extra scheduled all through the summer season together with a spot on the The 2023 San Francisco Artwork E book Truthful from July 14 – 16, as nicely a stay musical efficiency at Zebulon in reference to Printed Matter’s 2023 LA Artwork E book Truthful at The Geffen Modern at MOCA on August 13.

“Everyone seems to be fascinated by crime,” says Harper Simon. “If you have a look at the historical past of music, romantic love songs stands out as the dominant mode of songwriting, however second would in all probability be songs involving crime.” Simon provides a brand new and expansive contribution to this legacy with Meditations on Crime, an formidable multi-media undertaking that features an album he produced of musical collaborations with a sweeping vary of contributors, together with Julia Holter, Gang Gang Dance, King Khan, the Solar Ra Arkestra and a ebook he edited that includes essays by such notables as Miranda July, Hooman Majd, and Jerry Stahl, alongside art work from giants like Cindy Sherman, Tracey Emin, Julian Schnabel, and Raymond Pettibon.

Pay attention / Share: Meditations on Crime
For the ebook, Simon factors to “On Crime,” the essay by Nigerian novelist and poet Ben Okri, as a central piece. “It nearly felt like an introduction as a result of it was so philosophical,” he says. “It set the tone. The ebook began to turn out to be much less political and extra attention-grabbing.

Simon was dedicated to together with visible artwork that investigated the concept of crime, so he enlisted his buddy Jonah Freeman, from the artwork staff Freeman-Lowe, as a co-curator.

The 28-minute movie, additionally titled Meditations on Crime, was produced and directed by Jonah Freeman and Harper Simon to coincide with the discharge of the ebook/album bundle. It makes use of Simon’s music and excerpts from Ben Okri’s essay as an armature for a kaleidoscopic cinematic collage of discovered and unique footage. Acclaimed actress Katherine Waterston narrates the movie which, whereas touching upon a broad spectrum of crime, finds its focus within the jail system and all its contradictions.

The ebook will likely be accessible in three totally different variations: a softcover with 352 pages containing 339 artworks by 18 visible artists and 11 essays/interviews, a restricted version 13 in. x 13 in. clamshell in a customized clothbound field that features each the ebook and a vinyl LP of the Meditation on Crime album, and a restricted variety of signed clamshell editions signed by Harper Simon and Jonah Freeman. For extra info and/or to order yours go to the Hat & Beard Press web site, right here. 

Harper Simon is a author and musician who lives in Los Angeles. Simon is an government producer on the upcoming function movie Pavements directed by Alex Ross Perry, concerning the seminal 90s band Pavement, together with Vice. He’s additionally a contributing author for Airmail, Spin, Purple Journal and the L.A. Evaluation of Books.

Jonah Freeman is visible artist and filmmaker who lives and works in NYC. His work, whereas grounded within the filmmaking course of, has manifested in a wide range of kinds together with portray, sculpture, and large-scale installations. The central theme of his apply is the odysseys of the constructed world and the ensuing social and psychological results. He has exhibited in museums, galleries and biennials worldwide together with Museum of Modern Artwork Los Angeles, CA, Deitch Initiatives, NYC/LA, The Centre Pompidou, Paris, MOMA/PS 1 NYC, Marlborough Gallery, NYC/London, amongst others. His movies have screened in quite a few movie festivals together with The Worldwide Movie Pageant Rotterdam, l and The Rome Worldwide Movie Pageant. He continuously collaborates with artist Justin Lowe.

J.C. Gabel started his profession in publishing on the age of 19 with Cease Smiling,“The Journal for Excessive-Minded Lowlifes,” which grew into it right into a full-color shiny that includes timeless themes, unique tales, and interviews you couldn’t learn wherever else, earlier than shifting into ebook full time working for Taschen, Phaidon and Chronicle as an contributing editor. From 2005 to 2015, Gabel was additionally a daily contributor to the Wall Road Journal, Playboy, Bookforum, LA Occasions, New York Occasions, and Wallpaper. In 2016, Gabel based Hat & Beard Press with the objective of discovering a extra artist-friendly method of manufacturing and promoting books within the twenty first Century. H&B has since printed over 75 books.