June 2016
Overnight at LACE
Free
June 15-August 14, 2016 Opening Reception: Wednesday June 15, 2016 7-10PM Tim Youd brings his 100 Novels Project to LACE with the retyping of two John Rechy novels. These retyping performances will mark the 47th and 48th novels Youd has retyped in his ongoing multi-year performance series. The 100 Novels Project is an extended and idiosyncratic literary pilgrimage. Youd journeys across the world retyping entire novels in locations germane to each story. In these charged locations, he uses the original…
Find out more »Jibade-Khalil Huffman: Verse Chorus Verse
June 29-August 14, 2016 Opening reception: Wednesday June 29, 2016 - 7-10PM Performance: Thursday July 28, 2016 - 7:30PM For his summer residency at LACE, Los Angeles based artist Jibade-Khalil Huffman presents a newly commissioned multimedia installation that explores the subject of spectatorship, systems of display, and narrative making. Verse Chorus Verse is comprised of a suite of formally connected works concerned with the question of perception by exposing and foregrounding systems of image-making and storytelling. Here, the projector serves…
Find out more »September 2016
Open Air Prisons
Opening: Tuesday September 13, 2016 – 7:30-10PM Exhibition dates: September 14 - November 6, 2016 Curated by Kelman Duran Does a railroad never finished by colonial agents in Brazil signify a free-market halt? Does it point to a utopia filled with de-growth and unattainability as opposed to competition and expansion? A win for the forest and the Natives in it who didn’t succumb and who threatened to commit mass suicide if the logging continued to face them? Doesn’t the body in these…
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“¡Con la boca es un mamey!”
“¡Con la boca es un mamey!” Performance by Mireya Lucio October 26, 2016 7PM - LACE PROJECT ROOM Enter through the back door Translating research-sharing into ritual, Mireya Lucio will perform a non-authoritative lecture as a process of de-colonizing herself. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, but educated and residing in the United States, Mireya will weave a personal revisionist history of a nation as she excavates the facts surrounding the U.S. occupation of the island. Using embodied research–historical timelines,…
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O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice!
O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice! Curated by Shoghig Halajian December 2-3, 2016 7PM O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice! A story about ourselves... About what we are... About our solitude! A desire for an encounter... A desire for sharing... A desire for love! Gently pushing... Because in our time, we need more culture... More dreams... To not live alone! - Radhouane El Meddeb O solitude, my sweetest choice! Places devoted to the night, Remote from tumult and from noise, How…
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