ART OFFICE and Slab, two artist-run collaborative projects join together to present a 60-minute screening of contemporary video work by local, national, and international artists. The videos in this program explore how realities are tested through representation, physical configuration, creative desire, and potential failures.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
 Julia Brown
 Kim Collmer
 Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby
 Lyn Elliot
 Peter Harkawik
 Jon Irving
 Lauren Kelley
 Jennifer Levonian
 TV Moore
 Shana Moulton
 Corinna Schnitt


ABOUT ART OFFICE
As an ongoing platform for critical investigations and artistic projects, ART OFFICE for Film + Video actively seeks, promotes and presents contemporary video and film in art contexts. Founded by artists and CalArts alums Victoria Fu, Julie Orser and Jennifer L. Porter, ART OFFICE was formed to expand both emerging and established artists working in time-based media in the Los Angeles area.
Art Office

ABOUT SLAB
Slab is an exhibition method founded by Los Angles-based artist Wendy Mason and Houston-based curator Nancy Zastudil. Enacted in unexpected locations, Slab functions as a platform for artists' works, including solo, group and collaborative projects. We consider the transitory roles of artists and curators while aiming to facilitate artist's projects and events, exploring the fun and experimental nature of creative activity.
Slab Projects

Recent and Rarely Seen Explicit Videos from Southern California Artists
debuted at Lust 4 LACE

This bold collection of explicit videos explores issues of the perverse and provocative, challenging many preconceptions about sexuality and desire. Whether focusing on intimacy, the sex act itself or a sense of playfulness - these unabashed explorations of the human condition transcend gender and go beyond the purely pornographic. As a whole, the explicit nature of these works is more about stripping away layers of convention, rather than just clothing.

Featuring brand new and rarely seen explicit videos and performances from Southern California artists including: Buck Angel, Skip Arnold, Jordan Biren, Squeaky Blonde, David Burns, Peter Caine, Franco Castilla, Mark B. Chamness, Charong Chow, Jennifer Cohen, Geoff Cordner, Michael Dee, Dino Dinco, Willia Drew, Zachary Drucker, Martin Durazo, Micol Hebron, Tyler Hubby, Bryan Jackson, Kadet Kuhne, Darin Klein, Lauren Lavitt, Matt Lipps, Selene Luna, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Eon McKai, Julie Orser, Julianna (JP) Parr, Kathryne Layne Paxton, Barry Pett, Eva Posey, Dustin Robertson, Margie Schnibbe, Mark Cosmo Segurson, Thairin Smothers, Vena Virago, Austin Young, Carlos Zamora, and more.

Organized by David Burns and Margie Schnibbe, BUMP was inspired by a series of explicit video programs organized by Bruce Yonemoto in the early 1980’s.

LACE'S INFAMOUS VALENTINE'S DAY PARTY IS BACK!

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions celebrated the grand tradition of VALENTINE's day from years past with, good friends, random lovers, and strangers and to kick off our 30th anniversary in style!

Organized by artists David Burns and Margie Schnibbe (aka Vena Virago) with Peter Bolton & Carla Hart, Franco Castilla, Lenora Claire, Chad Clark, Robert Crouch, Christine Nichols and Carol Stakenas, Lust 4 LACE celebrates the grand tradition of years past and all manner of delightful debauchery by creating a night featuring explicit, naked, juicy, tasty, slippery, slimy, crunchy, gooey, sexy, voyeuristic, fetishistic live action animated narrative squishy hand-made video, live art and musical performance--DJ sets by John Tejada, Henry Self and Robert Crouch--not to mention kinky crafts with JP Craft Captain sponsored by Babeland and delectable libations by Stone Brewing Co.

Featuring brand new and rarely seen explicit videos and performances from Southern California artists including: Buck Angel, Skip Arnold, Jordan Biren, Squeaky Blonde, David Burns, Peter Caine, Franco Castilla, Mark B. Chamness, Charong Chow, Jennifer Cohen, Geoff Cordner, Michael Dee, Dino Dinco, Willia Drew, Zachary Drucker, Martin Durazo, Micol Hebron, Tyler Hubby, Bryan Jackson, Kadet Kuhne, Darin Klein, Lauren Lavitt, Matt Lipps, Selene Luna, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Eon McKai, Julie Orser, Julianna (JP) Parr, Kathryne Layne Paxton, Barry Pett, Eva Posey, Dustin Robertson, Margie Schnibbe, Mark Cosmo Segurson, Thairin Smothers, Vena Virago, Austin Young, Carlos Zamora, and more.

LUST 4 LACE part of the LACE LIVE! commissioning series. Throughout 2008 LACE is developing projects to celebrate LACE’s rich history, inspire heightened usage of its archival holdings, promote exploration of contemporary art in Los Angeles since 1978.

Be our MYSPACE valentine!!

Download the Lust for LACE press release here.

Shared Women is an exhibition that is dependent on cronyism, feminism and nepotism. We are supposed to be doing it for the love of the craft, for the love of humankind, for the love of the planet but we are not. We sleep with each other, inspire, plot, plan, respond, complain, collaborate, and analyze. We reorganize and reaffirm our histories every few years, culling histories from 'the women' and 'the gays,' from outsiders now insiders. This is a gay feminist show that picks up the tools of our mothers and refashions them to seduce and influence each other. Maybe some artists in this show have slept their way to the middle. Maybe some are using that bridge called my back, but all are creating conscientious contemporary feminist art that needs to be seen by more than the "communities" that form around alternative venues, ideologies, and shared women. Welcome to our dirty commerce.

Download Art Forum review (May 2007)
Download Artillery review (May 2007)

ARTISTS

A.L. Steiner
Aisha Burns
Amy Adler
Ashley Reid
Carrie Moyer
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer
Edie Fake
Ellie Murphy
Erica Vogt
Daphne Fitzpatrick
Emily Roysdon
Eve Fowler
GB Jones
Goodie B Wiseman
Ginger Brooks Takahashi
Jeanine Oleson
JD Samson
K8 Hardy
Kathe Burkhardt
Leidy Churchman
Lindsay Brant
Lisi Raskin & Aaron Brewer
Math Bass
Nicola Tyson
Nicole Eisenman
Paige Gratland
Sheila Pepe
Shannon Ebner
Sharon Hayes
Suzanne Wright
The Third Leg
Ulrike Mueller

PERFORMERS

Marriage
Edie Fake and Dewayne Sleightweight
Taisha Paggett

FILM PROGRAM

Chicks on Speed
Deborah Schamoni
Emily Roysdon
Eve Fowler
Heather Cassils
James Ingrid Pei-Mun Tsang
Jennifer Reeves & M.M. Serra
Michelle Dizon
robbinschilds
Stanya Kahn + Harry Dodge
Tara Mateik

KAPITALIST KIOSK

many many artists multiples

Celebrating the grand tradition of years past, we're once again hosting our infamous St. Valentine's Day bash, and we're doing it in decadent style.

Join us on Saturday, the 17th of February 2007, for a night filled with DJ sets, live music, entertainment, kinky crafts and all manner of delightful debauchery. We'll be featuring videos from ARTSLUT, and just wait till you see what other sorts of sexy surprises are up our sleeves...!

8-9pm: Erotic readings by Brian Blanchfield, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson and Matias Viegener

9-10pm: ARTSLUT rare vintage handmade fetish videos.
See below for a complete playlist!

Throughout The Night:

    * TrashBand
    * Felis Stella "Kiss Me"
    * Naughty Michelle Aston
    * DJ sets by Robert Crouch and Dino Dinco
    * JP Craft Captain's Craft Night presents Extra Kinky Crafts: Hosted by the Off Ramp Girls

» Check back for the latest info on performers and special guests! «

Curated by David Burns and Margie Schnibbe (aka Vena Virago).
Special thanks to our sponsors, Babeland, Echo Park Film Center, IZZE Beverage Company and Stone Brewing Co.

PROCEEDS BENEFIT the LACE Video Archive, a crucial resource to the history of art-making post 1978 in Los Angeles. Join us in celebrating LA's rich legacy of creative production, LACE's unforgettable part in that history and ringing in its feisty future!

About ARTSLUT:
The ARTSLUT program is a rare collection of vintage handmade fetish videos curated by David Burns and Bruce Yonemoto. All of the ARTSLUT videos are made by Los Angeles-based artists spanning 30 years to create a provocative playlist of sometimes shocking and often humorous video works. There is a fetish for everyone in the ARTSLUT collection; from early black and white videos using portapaks in the late 1970's, "Enema Bandit" and "WOOF WOOF", to low budget Mini DV ...

Book launch hosted by Jennifer Doyle and Chris Kraus.  New Semiotext(e) release with interviews by Sylvère Lotringer, edited by Giancarlo Ambrosino, co-edited by Hedi El Kholti, Chris Kraus and Justin Cavin.

With a Screening of Rare East Village films:

    Fire in My Belly (1987):
    David Wojnarowicz, Music Diamanda Galas. 4'

    Sex Series and Others (2005):
    Marion Scemama & François Pain. Music, Text and Photos David Wojnarowicz. 3'

    When I Put my hands on Your Body (1990):
    Marion Scemama. Music Ben Neil. 4'

    Last Night I took a Man (1989):
    Text David Wojnarowicz, Images Marion Scemama, Editing François Pain. 4'

    What is this Little Guy's Job in the World (1987):
    David Wojnarowicz. 2'

    In This House (1989):
    Text & Image David Wojnarowicz. 3'

    If I had a Dollar to spend (1989):
    Live Performance filmed by Marion Scemama. 4'

    Around Clown (1987):
    David Wojnarowicz and Steve Doughton. 3'

    Fear of Disclosure (1990):
    David Wojnarowicz and Phil Zwickler. 4'

    Interview with Sylvère Lotringer (1989). 1'

    Monologue (1989):
    David Wojnarowicz, images and editing Marion Scemama. 1'

    Stray Dogs (1985):
    Richard Kern. 4'

    Where Evil Dwells (1985):
    Tommy Turner and David Wojnarowicz. 30'

For more information about the book, please visit the Semiotext(e) website.

LACE, in partnership with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University, is proud to present an exhibition of recent photographs and video by Venezuelan artist Alexander Apóstol. The exhibition, curated by Bill Kelley, Jr., features two large-scale photographic series-Residente Pulido and Residente Pulido, Ranchos-as well as new video work. The exhibition will premiere at LACE in September 2006 and run through December 2006. The exhibition will then travel to Harvard University under the sponsorship of the David Rockefeller Latino and Latin American Art Forum.

Bill Kelley, Jr. writes of Apóstols work: "In a post-identity world, where subjective memories and histories now take on a more important role, discussions around urbanism carry a gentrifying signpost while, ironically enough, investing the city with new political and discursive possibilities." Originally from Caracas, Venezuela, Apóstol contrasts the city's cultural environment with some of the utopian ideals that have shaped its architecture in order to consider the connecting threads between place and time, history and actuality. As Apóstol re-appropriates, re-contextualizes, and sometimes even digitally manipulates images of Modernist edifices in a current state of dilapidation, he attempts to reconcile the ideological failings of the past with the socio-political and economic realities of the present. In a city like Los Angeles, where early 20th century urban planning now forces us into unique patterns of metropolitan life, this type of thoughtful investigation is a key process in understanding our local environment.

RELATED PROGRAMS

Thursday 21 September 2006 | 7:30pm
Conversation with Alexander Apóstol, Bill Kelley, Jr. and José Falconi at LACE

Saturday 23 September 2006 | 8pm
Conversation with Alexander Apóstol and Teddy Cruz at Estación Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico José Maria Larroque 271, 3rd floor, Colonia Federal, Tijuana BC, Mexico

LACE's ongoing ...

Technology killed the traditional artist's role as the premier recorder of visual experience, yet the contemporary artist finds wider realms of expression impossible without it. Open Architecture aims to explore the relationship between fine art and technology while potentially finding answers to some big questions: What is the relation between the message and the media? Is the meaning defined by its technical parameters?

Open Architecture is an exhibition of new media work by artists working with digital video media, performance, animation, and new genres, but with the common interest of blending the experiential with the virtual.

For more information please visit Fringe fest 2006 for more details.

Artists Included:
Robert Herbst: Photos Hollywood Boulevard, May 03, 2003
Elizabeth Rowe: Untitled, 2005
Andrew Hicks: not doing, 2005
Sarita Dev & Maurits Kelder: Himalaya¹s Head, 2005
Zach Blas: untitled (radio.ipod.human), 2005
Richard Skelton: Lifesines, 2005
Kevin Hamilton: Monitor, 2005

Voiceovers is a series of performances, readings and screenings exploring the voice as a physical utterance and carrier of meaning rather than a tool of language to be learned and controlled.

In the Gallery

5 October through 6 November
Chuck Jones : 3 Isolation Studies and The Butthole Tree

Chuck Jones plays with the nooks, crannies, gurgles, burbs, tangs, foibles, and prejudices that make us human. His Isolation Studies cut our language to its raspy ingredients. Jones makes apparent the repetitions that underlay our speaking; more so, he also reveals the traumas that make necessary human communication. This is especially apparent in regards to the Loveline Isolation Studies, where those who call in, mostly teenagers, expose their raw need for contact, and then sadly met by the aloof, sardonic nature of the hosts. In The Butthole Tree, the folks interviewed go through a litany of the sounds, body functions, and human frailty that drive a wedge in our ability to communicate with one another. Our prejudices define us and limit us. Chuck Jones enables us to tell who we are.

Born and raised inside the beltway (I-495) of our nations capital, Chuck Jones lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. His Isolation Series has been "featured" on WFMU more than once and this surprised him a great deal and forced him to pay extra for bandwidth use on his website, baby gorilla. Chuck made The Butthole Tree during his graduate program at The School of Art and Design at The University of Illinois where it was received very, very poorly. He currently "teaches" at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

9 November through 30 November
Natalie Zimmerman : Therapeutic Spaces and Others

In 1999, Zimmerman sent five different psychiatrists and mental health professionals a tape on which they could record a ...

LACE is pleased to present Taking a Bullet, a solo exhibition of recent works by Los Angeles-based artist Joe Sola, organized by Karl Erickson, Program Coordinator, and consulting curator Irene Tsatsos.

The exhibition will kick-off at the opening reception with a one-night performance titled "Film Actors Make Conceptual Art." Here Sola acts as director, requesting four Hollywood actors to use provided materials to create artworks live onstage; the results of which will be on view throughout the exhibition. Sola will also present the video work, "Studio Visit," a compilation of meetings inside the artist's studio with an international cast of museum curators and gallerists; a screening at the Egyptian Theatre of the 35mm film "Army Ranger Reaching for New Spirit Warrior (from the Mankind Project) Near Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles," a meditation on the grand narratives of Hollywood cinema and the fantasies that support them; and a new series of watercolors inspired by coming-of-age films.

Armed with strategies of seduction, including humor, beauty, and the occasional jolt of spectacle, Sola's artworks explore the problems we face when navigating between the stylized images we consume from Hollywood film and the residue of them that we take with us.

Taking a Bullet is Sola's first solo exhibition, which will travel to the Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA, in 2006, and it is accompanied by a 64-page catalog to be made available through our website.

Joe Sola's work has been exhibited internationally in Mexico, England, Switzerland, Spain, and Cuba. Sola's second solo exhibition will be at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH in 2006. His most recent group exhibitions (all 2005) include 'Rogue Wave', LA Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, Landmarks. Portland Institute of Contemporary Arts, OR, and Still Things Fall from the Sky, Evanston ...