April 2019
Using Memory & Connection to Occupy Space: Art in the Virtual and Natural Realms
Photo Credit: "The Oculus" by Larry Kirkland, installed at the California Science Center in Los Angeles Using Memory & Connection to Occupy Space: Art in the Virtual and Natural Realms April 24, 2019 7pm This conversation will explore the siting and creation of art experiences in the natural world and in virtual reality. Artists Sherin Guirguis, Nancy Baker Cahill, and Samantha Harris will discuss the motivations and inspirations driving their respective practices. We will hear about their interactions with and investigations of spaces, memory,…
Find out more »Screening Night with Los Angeles Filmforum
Still from Fainting Spells by Sky Hopinka Screening Night with Los Angeles Filmforum Sunday, April 28, 2019, 7:30 pm In conjunction with the exhibition Unraveling Collective Forms at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions 6522 Hollywood Blvd), Filmforum co-presents digital films by artists Cecilia Vicuña, Jeannette Ehlers, Arshia Haq and Sky Hopinka whose work are on display in the show. At the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028 Tickets: $10 general; $6 students (with ID)/seniors; free…
Find out more »May 2019
Homeward LA
Homeward LA Saturday May 4, 2019 2 pm Performance at LACE Homeward LA brings true stories of those who have suffered from homelessness to venues all over Los Angeles between April 26 and May 5. Performed by professional actors, these stories are meant to inspire and bring the community together to end homelessness. Last year’s inaugural event raised $55,000 for The Midnight Mission, a nonprofit on Skid Row that provides shelter, food, education and more to LA’s homeless population. Please…
Find out more »Oral Histories of Environmental Resistance/Historias orales de resistencia ambiental
Oral Histories of Environmental Resistance /Historias orales de resistencia ambiental May 5, 2019 2-4PM LACE gallery (See Spanish version below) As part of Unraveling Collective Forms exhibition activist members Jennifer Reyes, Dimas Efren Donis and Hilda Dueñas from East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice and artist Carolina Caycedo share stories of resistance in Los Angeles and other latitudes. ***This event will have simultaneous interpretation in English/Spanish East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ) is a community-based organization that works to facilitate self-advocates in East Los Angeles, Southeast Los Angeles and Long Beach. By providing…
Find out more »Movement as Translation of Emotion, Material as Witness, Gathering #2
Movement as Translation of Emotion, Material as Witness, Gathering #2 Tuesday May 7, 2019 6-9 PM There is a language each of our hands speak, a way of engaging -- thereby encoding the physical world. Tactile transmissions from our pasts, projected to a future. Remembering we were once connected to a womxn, we gather to support womxn’s collective actions, and look to our generative intuition as a guiding force for an action of solidarity, communication, healing and craft. This second gathering will…
Find out more »Transfeminist Discourses/Knots
left image 'Respite, Reprieve, and Healing: An Evening of Cleaning performance by Patrisse Cullors' (photo credit Giovanni Solis), right image 'Sayak Valencia' Transfeminist Discourses/Knots Saturday, May 18, 2019, 2-5 PM LACE gallery Sayak Valencia, Tijuana activist, writer, performer, and author of Capitalismo Gore in conversation with LACE curator Daniela Lieja Quintanar and invited artists. Following the talk will be performance Knots by Patrisse Cullors artist, organizer, educator, and popular public speaker. Cullors is a Los Angeles native and Co-Founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and Founder of grassroots Los Angeles based organization…
Find out more »Befriending Bemis
Sunday, May 19, 2019 | 1–3 PM Bring a friend or two and get to know the programs + people of Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts! Featuring Bemis alumni Trevor Amery, Shagha Ariannia, and Alison O’Daniel, this informal event will share highlights of Bemis Center's Residency Program, Exhibition Program, and future ambitious endeavors. Free and open to all. Free online event registration HERE
Find out more »Closing performance: “An Infected Sunset”
Closing performance: An Infected Sunset by Demian DinéYazhi’ in collaboration with Holland Andrews Sat, May 25, 6-9pm With this performance, we celebrate together the exhibition Unraveling Collective Forms, closing May 25. An Infected Sunset is an ekphrastic long-form prose poem first conceived in August 2016 in the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting, police killings of unarmed Black men, and in the midst of the Standing Rock #NoDAPL Resistance. During the writing of the poem the settler colonial nation-state elected the 45th president of…
Find out more »LACE Benefit Art Auction 2019
SAVE THE DATE | LACE BENEFIT ART AUCTION MAY 29, 2019 Vibiana 214 S. Main Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 As LACE enters its fifth decade as the longest-running contemporary artist space in Los Angeles, join us for the annual Benefit Art Auction on May 29, 2019 at Vibiana with a special reception by Redbird & Vibiana Chef Neal Fraser’s Redbird. The online auction launches on Paddle8 May 15th LACE BENEFIT ART AUCTION | EVENT SCHEDULE PRIVATE HOST COMMITTEE RECEPTION | 6:00 PM Private…
Find out more »June 2019
Video in Site: The Western
Video in Site: The Western June 5, 2019, 7-9 PM Video in Site is a series of screenings that will occur regularly from February 2019 to September 2019. Each screening will bring together video art and experimental film, alongside clips from the internet and other digital detritus. The work will be grouped together loosely by genre, including the Musical, the Western, Action, Science Fiction, Soap Opera, the Road Trip and Horror. To make site-specific work today is to engage with the…
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