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A Composite Field
20 January 2012 7 - 10 PM
A new collaborative performance work by Yann Novak and Taisha Paggett curated by Dino Dinco
$10 General Admission
$5 Students
FREE for LACE Members and Friends of the MAK Center
SOLD OUT
Please note this performance will take place at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture’s Mackey Garage Top
1137 South Cochran Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90019
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 ...
read more >"How I Learned To Draw": Memory, Documentation, Interference, Distortion
15 January 2012 2 - 4 PM
Barry Markowitz
$10 general admission, $5 students
FREE for LACE members
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 ...
The Pleasure of the Piss: Arm Utterances
12 January 2012 7 - 9 PM
Jon Rutzmoser
The Pleasure of the Piss: Arm Utterances combines feminine subjectivity, mass consumption, the 20th Century avant-garde, and public urination to investigate the overlap between the participatory, abject, hyper-sexualized, and vulnerable. In conversation with Anne Mavor’s Venus in a Half Shell and Other Poses, it is play after a new language.
For this performance, artist John Rutzmoser begins with the request that ‘feminine subjects’ drink lots of Mott’s apple juice and urinate on him—more specifically on a tattoo of Duchamp’s Fountain on his arm. Directives will be given through a textual and visual installation which will blur any hard distinction between reading words and reading images. Piss is used as a metonym for ethical subjectivity, literally tracing the physical act of sacrificing the self for nothing. "I’ll wipe myself clean and we’ll all know a little more about play and seduction." - Jon Rutzmoser
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jon Rutzmoser is an artist, writer, and educator living in Los Angeles. He recently received an MFA in Writing and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts. His work engages with notions of ethical subjectivity within a world of collapsed metaphor, linguistic slippage and self-exploitation. More information on Jon Rutzmoser at jonrutzmoser.com
The Pleasure of the Piss: Arm Utterances 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 be held in Los Angeles. Sponsored by Highland Art Agents and presented by LACE with the assistance of Vanguard, DTLA, American Hotel, Pasadena Film Forum, and Jett’s Café and Art Haus, the festival was presented through the cooperation of the LA arts community without any public funding.
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