Eternal Telethon is an open

collective A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest or work together to achieve a common objective. Collectives can differ from cooperatives in that they are not necessarily focused upon an e ...

working to establish an artist

retirement home A retirement home – sometimes called an old people's home, old folks' home, or old age home, although ''old people's home'' can also refer to a nursing home – or rest home, is a multi-residence housing facility intended for the elderly. Ty ...

at the

Salton Sea The Salton Sea is a shallow, landlocked, highly salinity, saline endorheic lake in Riverside County, California, Riverside and Imperial County, California, Imperial counties in Southern California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the S ...

by hosting "live" webcast. Founded in 2009 by Ina Viola Blasius,

John Burtle John Burtle (born in 1984) is an American artist who works in performance, Public Art, sculpture, and broadcast media. The artist lives in Los Angeles, often changes the spelling of their name, and frequently works with in groups . Work Burtle's ...

, Akina Cox, Chad Dilley, and Niko Solorio the Eternal Telethon has featured over 200 artist. Notable Eternal Telethon projects have included "the Future is Eternal" which was part of

CalArts The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art school in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both the ...

40th anniversary, the twenty-four-hour broadcast "Infinity + 24" at

Machine Project Machine Project was a Los Angeles based not-for-profit arts organization and community event space. History Founded by Mark Allen, Machine Project launched in 2003 with its inaugural show, 'Tom Jennings - Story Teller,' an installation produced ...

, "Eternal Service" at the Church of Public Fiction with Signify, Sanctify, Believe the Hammer Museum with KChungTV, and "Our Work is Never Done" which was part of the

USC USC may refer to: Education United States * Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, Santurce, Puerto Rico * University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina ** University of South Carolina System, a state university system of South Carolina * ...

MPAS curated exhibition "Work After Work". In the catalog for the Work After Work Zemula Barr describes the project saying "Although seemingly tongue and cheek, the collective's goal is to initiate an artist's retirement home is very real and points to the lack of structural and economic support available to artist, many who struggle to meet ends meet with part time employment and a lack of health benefits."

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External links

* http://larecord.com/interviews/2010/11/19/eternal-telethon-infinity-24 * http://behaviouralsciences.net/curiosity/ * http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2010/11/eternal_telethon_at_machine_pr.php {{DEFAULTSORT:Eternal Telethon Telethons Performance artist collectives Performance art in Los Angeles