July 2011
Speculative Panel DIscussion
28 July 2011, 7 - 9 pm with Jordan Crandall, Jack Halberstam, Rita Raley, and Speculative artists and curators Join LACE for this exclusive Thursday Night at LACE panel in discussion of Speculative, a group exhibition curated by Zach Blas and Christopher O'Leary. Joining the curators in conversation will be special guests Jordan Crandall, Jack Halberstam, and Rita Raley as well as artists Jeff Cain, Micha Cardenas, and Michael Kontopoulos. Speculative focuses on new modes of art making and of presentation with an emphasis on the experiential, subversive, and…
Find out more »August 2011
Unsound.com presents DECOMPOSTIONS: The Haters, Gil Kuno, Crank Sturgeon, Styrofoam Sanchez, GX Jupitter-Larsen and Tiffany Trenda
04 August 2011, 7 - 9 pm A Thursday Night at LACE program LACE is pleased to present DECOMPOSITIONS, curated by Gil Kuno of unsound.com. Featured in the program are performances by The Haters, Gil Kuno, Crank Sturgeon, Styrofoam Sanchez, GX Jupitter-Larsen + Gil Kuno, and a special introductory performance by Tiffany Trenda. Both Crank Sturgeon and Styrofoam Sanchez will be streaming live via Skype from outside locations. Sound is invisible, but the process of creating it should not be.…
Find out more »Native Strategies Launch Party
11 August 2011, 7 - 9 pm A Thursday Night at LACE program Native Strategies is a new experimental platform and journal for performance art in Los Angeles. Initiated by Brian Getnick, Zemula Barr, and Molly Sullivan, each issue will be released following a series of performances curated around themes, strategies and ideas present in the work of Los Angeles based performance artists. Over the course of five years, the interviews, essays, reviews, drawings and photo documentation from each issue will be compiled into a book.…
Find out more »Tessa Wills
18 August 2011, 7 - 9 pm Curated by Dino Dinco for Thursday Nights at LACE This performance event will be clothing optional, and therefore we ask that guests be at least 18 years of age. There will be a clothes check in the main gallery. Please stay for a Q & A session with the artist afterwards. ABOUT THE ARTIST Tessa Wills is a British live / performance artist and choreographer based in San Francisco who has also made…
Find out more »September 2011
Mariel Carranza & Dorian Wood
15 September 2011, 7:30 - 9 pm Curated by Dino Dinco for Thursday nights at LACE Artists Mariel Carranza and Dorian Wood present a performative installation organized around sound making, physicality, gesture and sculpture. Working together for the first time, this unique collaboration hinges on the principle of trust, as well as each artist’s distinct relationship to sound making, sound feeling and hearing. Carranza is physically woven into the sound-making instrument, its architecture comprised of wooden beams and strings of varying…
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