Los Angeles Goes Live (LAGL) is an exhibition, performance series and publication project that explores the histories and legacies of performance art in Southern California in the 1970s and early 80s and their connection to current practices. The exhibition will be shown in LACE’s galleries from October 2011-January 2012. Concurrently, the LACE Live! Performance series will feature re-inventions of historical performances and performative actions staged throughout the city.

Since 2009 LACE has been working with an outstanding team of performance artists and scholars to develop this project, including Peggy Phelan, Amelia Jones, Suzanne Lacy, Jerri Allyn, Ulysses Jenkins, Cheri Gaulke, Liz Glynn, Heather Cassils, Dorian Wood, Denise Uyehara and OJO. Additionally, the LAGL Advisory Board includes Meiling Cheng, Ondine Chavoya, Dino Dinco, Peter Frank, Gronk, Susan Martin, Jane McFadden, Glenn R. Phillips, Carl Stone and Johanna Went.

LAGL is part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, an initiative by the Getty Foundation that includes 50 arts and cultural organizations throughout Southern California.

For more information on Pacific Standard Time please visit: www.getty.edu/research/scholarly_activities/projects/pacific_standard_time/index.html.

Alison O'Daniel will lead a movement workshop based on seemingly unimportant scenes in films that serve to bridge together important, climactic moments within narrative.

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Elizabeth Yochim with Turning the Wheel enlivens whole mind, body, and spirit consciousness through embodiment, play and authentic self-expression. We invite you to join us! RSVP at voice@portablecityprojects.org

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Christine Suarez is a choreographer, dancer, and art instigator whose definition of dance is broad and welcoming. She loves to make dances in unusual and unexpected places. Using improvisation, sound, and bodies, workshop participants will jointly create mini-dance events all over the LACE galleries.

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You CAN meditate while moving. Paige Tighe will lead the group in simple meditative dance exercises with a focus on being present in your body. These exercises will both center and energize you!

Paige Tighe is currently exploring the boundaries of public and private meditation with a concentration in disruption. This manifests in her collaborations in postmodern dance with Christine Suarez and the mentoring of Hana von der Kolk. She has danced at MOCA, beaches, the Hammer, public parks, buses, and RedCat. She is a part of Pedestal & the All Girl Band which is a mobile karaoke unit and a public art persona. Her favorite media are dancing and video, sometimes together, sometimes not. She is the inaugural post grad curatorial fellow at the Ben Maltz Gallery under the tutelage of Meg Linton.

Elizabeth Yochim with Turning the Wheel enlivens whole mind, body, and spirit consciousness through embodiment, play and authentic self-expression. We invite you to join us! RSVP at voice@portablecityprojects.org

Further information TBA.

Christine Suarez is a choreographer, dancer, and art instigator. She loves to make dances in unusual and unexpected places. Her definition of dance is broad and welcoming. Using improvisation, sound and out bodies we will jointly create mini-dance events all over the space.

Further information TBA.

Gregory Barnett an all-level interdisciplinary performance and movement workshop based in conviction/commitment/intent rather than traditional training or a particular codified school of technique. A two hour practice working with vulnerability and emotional sensitivity a a strength, a series on homo-led actions and experiments stemming from a healthy lack of inhibition and a nauseating about of self-love, a constructed environment acknowledging we are all inherently God His/Her/Itself and profoundly retarded simultaneously at all times.

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Join LACE and Metabolic Studio in congratulating Deanna Petherbridge on the release of her book The Primacy of Drawing.  Deanna will be presenting a brief lecture and Q&A on her work, accompanied by a few surprise guests.

Drawing has always been an inseparable part of Western art making but its role has been subjected to increasing scrutiny during the past decades. Admiration for foundobjects and readymades, the endless possibilities of new technologies, and the embodyment of the artist as performer and animator of social practices as well as maker of artefacts that drawing practice has shifted away from the traditional life class study, portrait likeness or toen and landscape sketch. This book is the first of its kind to address emergent ways of drawing within a richly illustrated trans-historical context and to propose ways of looking and constructions of meanings around a huge range of practices, both old and new. It clebrated Leonardo, Michelangelo, Anguissola, Durer, Rubens, Rembrant, Goya, Fuseli, Kauffman, Ingres, Menzel, Seurat, Van Gough, Picasso, Matisse, Bourgeois, Trockel but also illustrated, analyses and proposes ways to approach the drawings of many less-familar artists and the ideas and theories that inform their work.

Beginning with a consideration of traditional connoisseurship and ancient myths about the origins of drawing, Deanna Petherbridge examines the polarities of open-ended sketches and highly finished presentation drawings that constitute a drawing continuum: graphic parameters within which artists still continue to experiement. She examines the 'economy' of drawing, that is, its materials and techniques and qualities of line and mark, and analyses strategies of making, composing, inventing and development through revealing juxtapositions of historical and contemportary images. The teaching of drawing across the centuries in academies has led to the production of drawing and anatomical manuals and complex theories about copying, hierarchies of genres, the ...

Join Knifeandfork and explore the psychogeography of Hollywood using mobile telephone interactions in a generative process. Over the course of one and half hours, LACE's headquarters will be transformed into a remote drawing laboratory for investigating the Hollywood strip.

Knifeandfork, founded by Brian House and Sue Huang while on a coffee break during a figure-drawing class in Sweden, currently operates out of New York and Los Angeles. Knifeandfork projects are concerned with the critical reconfiguration of media structures and contexts.  American culture guide Flavorpill says of the collective, "the imaginative bicoastal duo['s] installations utilize unorthodox media, including text messages and video clips, in their expository repositioning of traditional art forms." 

Knifeandfork recently completed a series of residency projects engaging in a social practice at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Los Angeles in 2009.  Other recent work includes The Wrench (2008), which recasts Primo Levi’s The Monkey’s Wrench as an open-ended mobile phone text-message exchange between participants and an artificially intelligent character; 5 ’til 12 (2006), a nonlinear interactive installation utilizing a database of video clips to create a near-infinite number of narratives based on the Akira Kurosawa film Rashomon; and Hundekopf (2005), a location-based narrative project utilizing SMS text-messaging to animate and recontextualize the experience of riding the Berlin Ringbahn. Knifeandfork has exhibited with Rhizome at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York; Beall Center for Art + Technology, University of California, Irvine; Loving Berlin Festival, Berlin; and Kulturhuset, Stockholm.