December 2010
Maura Brewer: The New Show at Hayden Planetarium
December 09, 2010 7:30 - 9 pm Presented by Elysian Park Museum of Art The Elysian Park Museum of Art Visitor's Center presents a one-night screening of Maura Brewer's animation The New Show at the Hayden Planetarium, a three-part animation that joins science, humor, and personal narrative to investigate the cultural status of the planetarium. Combining appropriated audio from the Hayden Planetarium’s 2001 show “Passport to the Universe” with stop motion animation, The New Show at the Hayden Planetarium refigures the planetarium as coping mechanism,…
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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…
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Screening: The Polymath, or the Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman
25 August 2011, 7 - 9 pm A Thursday Nights at LACE program LACE is proud to present in conjunction with Speculative a rare screening of Fred Barney Taylor's 2007 documentary The Polymath, or the Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman. Polymath depicts the intense life of Samuel R. Delany. This self-described “ordinary, dull, Black faggot" has been a rebellious pioneer who opened up the white male universe of science fiction to issues of race, gender and sexuality. In…
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Cheng-Chieh Yu
15 December 2011, 7:30 - 9:30 pm Curated by Dino Dinco $10 admission $5 discounted student admission FREE for LACE members LACE presents a special evening of dance theater and video with Cheng-Chieh Yu / Yu Dance Theatre “Dancing Mother Courage” / “Good Person” / “Malicious Delicious: Movement Studies for ‘Mack the Knife’” >> a trilogy of dance theater and video inspired by Bertolt Brecht Performers: Bowman-Rivera Esteli, Chankethya Chey, Jeremy Hale, Mana Hayakawa, Sarah Jacobs, Nguyen Nguyen, Joseph Small…
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American Realism
01 August 2012, 8 - 11 pm Curated and directed by Katherine Brook Presented by LACE & Space 15 Twenty Conceived and directed by Katherine Brook Text arranged by Liza Birkenmeier Directed by Katherine Brook, and originally developed at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, New York, American Realism is a one-day extreme endurance piece for eight actors, about contemporary labor, spoken through the voices of depression-era California migrant workers. Disassembling notions of realism and investigating the possibilities of reenactment without…
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