December 2011
Abramovic, Rainer, Gala Theater & Performance Art Politics: A Public Forum
17 December 2011, 1 - 4 pm Moderated by Dino Dinco, Jennifer Doyle and Matias Viegner On performance art, ethics and criticality in the wake of Marina Abramovic’s 2011 MOCA gala performance and Yvonne Rainer’s critical letter of said performance. Please join us for a moderated open forum instigated by the outpouring of reactions and criticality surrounding, although not limited to, Abramovic’s recent performance as part of MOCA’s fundraising gala. Using Abramovic’s Los Angeles performance as one example, we hope…
Find out more »January 2012
Spirit Resurrection
01 January 2012 Liz Glynn For all information on LA Live! commissioned artists, visit the Los Angeles Goes Live website: losangelesgoeslive.org
Find out more »Three Weeks in January: End RAPE in Los Angeles
12 January 2012 Suzanne Lacy For all information on LA Live! commissioned artists, visit the Los Angeles Goes Live website: losangelesgoeslive.org
Find out more »The Pleasure of the Piss: Arm Utterances
12 January 2012, 7 - 9 pm Jon Rutzmoser The Pleasure of the Piss: Arm Utterances combines feminine subjectivity, mass consumption, the 20th Century avant-garde, and public urination to investigate the overlap between the participatory, abject, hyper-sexualized, and vulnerable. In conversation with Anne Mavor’s Venus in a Half Shell and Other Poses, it is play after a new language. For this performance, artist John Rutzmoser begins with the request that ‘feminine subjects’ drink lots of Mott’s apple juice and urinate…
Find out more »“How I Learned to Draw”: Memory, Documentation, Interference, Distortion
15 January 2012, 2 - 4 pm Barry Markowitz $10 general admission, $5 students FREE for LACE members How I Learned To Draw is an autobiographical performance that incorporates stories about shock, revelation, and miracles which draw on cinematic influences. Structured in a physical space of sounds and video projections that represent acts of interference, Barry Markowitz will offer a physical recounting of the memories and acts of documentation, including autographs and giveaways, that motivated him to draw. In…
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