January 2011
Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 – 2000
January 20, 2o11 7:30 - 9 pm Post Conceptual Performance: Video 1977 - 1997 LACE is thrilled to host an evening of video screening to celebrate the recently released book Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000. By the mid-seventies, the concept of the artist’s body as medium had evolved from arid performance to effusive provocation. Tony Labat emerged in 1977 with the remarkable series Solo Flight in which the artist’s identity is given…
Find out more »Community Dance Series: Paige Tighe (Part 2)
January 23, 2011 12 - 2 pm Presented by Portable City Projects You CAN meditate while moving. Paige Tighe will lead the group in simple meditative dance exercises with a focus on being present in your body. These exercises will both center and energize you! This all-level class will start with walking meditation exercises followed by some blood-pumping African beats and improv dance movement to get you warm in the January cold. Paige Tighe is currently exploring the boundaries of…
Find out more »LACE @ Art Los Angeles Contemporary
January 27, 2011 8 - 6 pm with a special performance by Brian Getnick and Kristian van der Heyden Come find the LACE booth at the Art Los Angeles Contemporary art fair for some exclusive previews of our upcoming year. View previously unreleased footage of LACE performances from Skip Arnold, Heather Cassils, Dawn Kasper, Julie Tolentino, Christopher Willits, and Swissnex. Be the first to own the LACE Living the Archives box set, available for purchase alongside the newly released Living…
Find out more »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…
Find out more »February 2011
Gutted 2011
Februrary 19, 2011 7 pm LACE's Annual Winter Benefit LACE is pleased to present GUTTED 2011: LACE’S ANNUAL WINTER BENEFIT. For the second year in a row, LACE has teamed up with Los Angeles-based curator and artist Dino Dinco, who brings his own passions and experience to this annual fundraising event. Inspired by Los Angeles’ history of performance art and LACE’s role as an open platform for artistic expression, Dinco has reached out to a range of artists, both established…
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