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You are here: Home / Archives for LACE / 1985-1989

Industrial Zone Surf Stomp New Music L.A.

March 12, 1987 A city-wide festival of events held the first two weeks of March, sponsored by twenty-four organizations including LACE. LACE's contribution included California surf music performed by ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1985-1989, Exhibition, LACE, Performance, Video Tagged With: 1987, concert, David Allan and the Arrows, festival, Hal Jepson, Industrial Zone Surf Stomp New Music L.A., Lawndale the Insect Surfers, music, Schuyler Wrobel, surf music, the Halibuts

Surveillance

  February 27, 1987 - April 12, 1987 Exhibition of installations, photography, and videotapes by artists who have either usurped surveillance procedures employed by spies, private ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1985-1989, Exhibition, Installation, LACE, Video Tagged With: 1987, Aron Ranen, Branda Miller, Bruce Charlesworth, Carol Rainey and Steven Feldman, Chip Lord, Debora Irmas, Dieter Froese, Elsa Cayo, Gary Lloyd, Heiner Muhlenbrock, installation, Jake Seniuk, John Baldessari, Julia Scher, Lewis Stein, Louis Hock, Margia Kramer, Martha Rosler, Michael Klier, Michael Smith, multimedia, Nancy Buchanan, Noriaki Nakagawa, Ocean earth, Pacific Street Films, Paper Tiger TV, Paul Ryan and Michael Shamberg, Peter D Agostino, photography, Richard Lowenberg, Richard Prelinger, Sam Samore, Surveillance, Video

David Moss

February 20, 1987 Performance by David Moss, avant-garde percussionist who combined layers of drums, gongs, cymbals, chimes and other instruments, odd electronics, Bertoia sound sculptures and ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1985-1989, LACE, Performance Tagged With: 1987, David Moss, instrumental, music

LACE Valentine’s Day (1987)

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Filed Under: 1985-1989, LACE Tagged With: valentine, valentines day

Tony Labat / Tony Labat and the Giant: Television

February 5, 1987 - February 26, 1987 A presentation of Tony Labat’s single channel works since 1982, humorous on-linear narrative pieces that connected personal and political statements. ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1985-1989, LACE, Screening, Video Tagged With: 1987, 1987 - February 26, February 5, Tony Labat, Tony Labat / Tony Labat and the Giant: Television, Tony Labat and the Giant: Television, Video

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Photos by Christopher Wormald.
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