September 2012
Chris Kraus & Matias Viegener Book Launch
20 September 2012, 7 - 9 pm Join LACE, Les Figues Press & Semiotexte in celebrating the launch of two new works from Los Angeles-based authors Chris Kraus and Matias Viegener. Both authors will be reading excerpts from their text. Kraus' 1997 debut novel I Love Dick was hailed by Rick Moody as "one of the most important literary events of the past two decades," and has become a cult classic. New York Times critic Holland Cotter has called…
Find out more »ARTeen Workshop
With Gina Osterloh. Join LACE's current artist-in-residence Gina Osterloh for a free photography and production workshop on Saturday, 22 September from 10am to 4pm. The workshop will give ten students the opportunity to work hands-on with Gina while recreating aspects of her exhibition and producing their own photo shoot. Gina will instruct participants on elements of shadow and her process of manipulating depth, dimension and flatness through aperture and camera techniques. Students will also learn about Gina’s influences and the theory behind her practice, and…
Find out more »October 2012
Cynthia Carr
Free
Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz LACE is thrilled and honored to host Cynthia Carr, author of Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz, for a presentation and reading from the work. When the Catholic League and Senator John Boehner protested the National Portrait Gallery’s inclusion of an edited excerpt of David Wojnarowicz’s short silent film A Fire in My Belly in its Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture exhibit,…
Find out more »Ursula Scherrer: Re-Write
Part of (Re-) Cycles of Paradise Re-write is a new performance work by Ursula Scherrer, which will be performed during the opening of (Re-) Cycles of Paradise and continues as an installation throughout the exhibition. Scherrer explores the thought process about being a woman, a mother, an artist, and a responsible social being in a physical, organic act during which she uses knitting needles to write streams of consciousness in fresh clay that is spread on shards of glass. The…
Find out more »Melodie Mousset and Zachary Sharrin: Some Parts are Limbs
October 27, 2012, 2 - 4 pm Part of (Re-) Cycles of Paradise Starting promptly at 2pm, Melodie Mousset and Zachary Sharrin will invite the audience to a “performance class” that will use data and information about gender theory and climate change metaphorically in order to help the audience find a physical balance as they face the dynamics of a fast changing society and environment. Using their own bodies as a medium to convey information, they will combine movement, gesture,…
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