January 2011
Explanation as Composition: Collaborative Social Writing Event
January 30, 2011 1 - 4 pm a Les Figues Press event Come see live writers writing live! Explanation as Composition, an experiment in narrative, begins with a collaborative social writing event in which fifteen writers will use materials in and around LACE to create texts for audio tours of the LACE exhibition space. Explanation as Composition is a project by U.N.F.O. (Unauthorized Narrative Freedom Organization), an unofficial and temporary coalition of five writers, including Amanda Ackerman, Harold Abramowitz, Kate…
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Artist Talk with Open Daybook curator David P. Earle and guests
February 03, 2011 7:30 - 9 pm With David Burns, Yok Chang, Starlee Kine, Karen Lofgren, and Eugenia Paz Join us in ending this chapter of David P. Earle's The Open Daybook project and its heralded exhibition at LACE for a discussion of the curatorial process, an examination of time, and the unique artwork created for this project. For this Thursday Nights at LACE event, Earle will be joined in conversation by artist, writer, and public radio producer Starlee Kine…
Find out more »Nomad Two Worlds: LACE Family Activities Day
February 27, 2011 10 - 5 pm at Pier 59 West in Santa Monica We are thrilled to invite you to join us and come experience Nomad Two Worlds. Created by world-renowned photographer Russell James, Nomad Two Worlds is a collaborative art project with Australia’s indigenous artists. The LACE Family Activities Day promises to be both fun and educational, and will feature didjeridoo lessons, painting activities, storytelling and music videos. Native American and Haitian cultures will be explored in music, dance…
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Conversations on Making Place
17 March 2011, 7 - 9 pm Closing Reception and Panel Discussion Painted Over/Under Part 3: Making Place is the architecture-inspired section of a yearlong exhibition conceptualized by artist Kim Schoenstadt. Featuring Los Angeles-based architecture and design firms Predock_Frane Architects, Chee Salette Architecture Office (csao),and Florencia Pita mod and curated by Erin Cullerton, Making Place showcases two-dimensional, abstracted vignettes of the Los Angeles cityscape. As both an exercise in artful placemaking and a response to the powerful imagery of forgotten urban landscapes,…
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Martha Kirszenbaum: Curator-in-Residence
LACE is pleased to host 2013 Curator-in-Residence Martha Kirszenbaum for a research residency in Los Angeles. For her residency, Kirszenbaum will research and continue to develop her two-part exhibition cycle, La Fin de la Nuit & The End of the Night. Presented as part of the Young Curators Season at Palais de Tokyo, La Fin de la Nuit is the first of two exhibitions that explore the visual influence of two major experimental filmmakers: one French, Henri-Georges Clouzot, and one…
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