LACE is proud to present Capsize, a new collaborative installation and performance by Tad Beck and Jennifer Locke. Capsize is curated by Marjorie Vecchio, PhD., and will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno. Taking place on an island off the coast of Maine where Beck had spent many summers both as a child and adult, the two artists developed a body of work utilizing objects, landscape and models from this island incorporating Locke’s approach to action/performance and the camera.

Capsize incorporates an unorthodox utilization of materials through performance, upending the normal order of symbolic relations. The elements of each discrete piece (boat/body/water/camera/model/artist) are shuffled and reshuffled into various permutations, and thus function as a matrix supplying terms for the invention of activities and their positioning within the camera’s frame.

Both artists have worked with the male body in the past, each in their own way. For Beck, the erotic potential of the body is usually coupled with absurdist/humorous activities, utilizing eros as a springboard for looking at more abstract notions of repetition, failure, exertion, voyeurism, and the masculine subject. Locke’s utilization is similarly concerned with exertion and the dynamics of looking/voyeurism, but is also particularly concerned with the way that bodies animate and inhabit a space, the ways in which the presence of a camera and/or viewer transforms that body's way of occupying physical space, and in so doing explores architectural themes.

PUBLICATION
Curator Marjorie Vecchio, PhD is collaborating with LACE to publish a catalogue that will include a keynote essay by Jennifer Doyle, PhD and an essay by Grant Wahlquist. The catalogue is sponsored by a generous award from the Hilliard Endowment, the Associated Students of the ...

LACE is proud to present Now he's out in public and everyone can see, an 18-channel video installation by Natalie Bookchin that weaves together found fragments from online video diaries in which vloggers recount a series of media scandals involving African American men. The multiple stories originally circulated and enflamed by networks of corporate media gone viral, intersect around themes of racial and class identity and explore popular attitudes, anxieties, and conflicts about race. Bookchin’s work creates a critical context for otherwise isolated and scatter-shot online voices, drawing links, making connections, and locating tropes between individual rants and responses. The montage produced by the multiple monitors in the gallery mirrors the composite story, of a racialized subject under scrutiny. Where the typical viewer of online video is a single person in front of her screen, the installation produces an active social space where multiple viewers navigate through a media environment, piecing together a fragmented and layered narrative told across space and time.

A major new work by Bookchin, Now he’s out in public and everyone can see was developed over the past two and a half years and is part of a larger body of work in which Bookchin repurposes videos made and circulated online, giving new social shape and form to individual expression. Previous video works in this series also address current social events and phenomena including joblessness, mood-stabilizing drugs, and DIY dance videos. This newest project is more spatially and conceptually complex, weaving together many more videos, sounds, voices, narratives, and perspectives into three-dimensional space. This further evolution of form reflects and explores the mix of struggles, conflicts, and harmony in some of the critical stories we as a society are telling today about who we are, and what we aspire to be, and represents ...

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LACE presents A Composite Field, a new work by Yann Novak and Taisha Paggett  at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture’s Mackey Garage Top (at the R. M. Schindler designed Pearl M. Mackey Apartments) in the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles (1137 South Cochran Avenue). For the eighth and final installment of his one-year program, Performance Art Curator in Residence Dino Dinco pairs up sound and installation artist Yann Novak with choreographer and dancer Taisha Paggett for the premiere of this site-specific work.

Dinco proposed this site to the artists out of the keen awareness of space and architecture – material, conceptual, corporeal – that informs and influences their work. Novak and Paggett take a sculptural approach to both sound and movement in their respective constructions of the spectating experience. Novak has made field recordings that document the aural presence of the Mackey Garage Top, which will inform how he and Paggett construct their performance. These recordings will be digitally altered to emphasize the unique characteristics of the space itself. Drawing on her ongoing interest in the cultural process of vision, seeing and being seen, Paggett will construct and perform a chain of actions inspired by the layered organic and artificial elements of both the space and the sound score.

Seating is limited and limited number of advanced tickets are available. There will be three scheduled seatings on the hour at 7, 8, and 9 PM.

The premiere of A Composite Field concludes Dinco’s yearlong tenure as LACE’s first Performance Art Curator in Residence. Over the last 12 months, Dino has assembled a daring ensemble of performers from Los Angeles and beyond including Mecca Vazie Andrews, Mariel Carranza, Jorge Rodolfo De Hoyos (San Francisco), Brian Getnick with Claire Cronin and Corey Fogel, Tameka Norris (currently at Yale), Dawn ...

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How I Learned To Draw is an autobiographical performance that incorporates stories about shock, revelation, and miracles which draw on cinematic influences. Structured in a physical space of sounds and video projections that represent acts of interference, Barry Markowitz will offer a physical recounting of the memories and acts of documentation, including autographs and giveaways, that motivated him to draw. In recounting his experiences, Markowitz acknowledges that telling a story is a distortion. "Any process of re-examining and event is a distortion of the event." - Barry Markowitz

Small structural elements in this performance have been brought forward and trans-mutated from Markowitz's 1981 performance for Public Spirit titled Think About It Susan. A clothesline is strung from one table to another. Wet towels and pieces of hair are hung on the line and passed to a person waiting for them at the other table.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Barry Markowitz received his MFA from California State University, Los Angeles. Additionally, he has studied at the Art Students League, the School of Art and Design in New York, UCSB and CSUN. His awards and honors include a fellowship grant from the J. Paul Getty Trust/California Community Foundation and Rockefeller Honorariums from UC San Diego and from Cal State Dominguez Hills. His recent exhibitions have been seen at the Palos Verdes Art center, Andrew Shire Gallery, L2 Kontemporary and PØST. He has been included in group exhibits at the J.Paul Getty Museum, The Whitney Museum, and the Southwest Museum. More information on Barry Markowitz at bzmarkowitz.com

How I Learned To Draw is part of Liz Glynn’s project series for Los Angeles Goes Live, Spirit Resurrection.

ABOUT SPIRIT RESURRECTION
Public Spirit, which took place in May and October 1980, was the first performance art festival of such scope to ...

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