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  • In Mourning and In Rage (1977)

    Suzanne Lacy & Leslie Labowitz-Starus

    In Mourning and In Rage was a media performance in response to a particularly intense time of focus on violence against women—the months in which ten women in Southern California were murdered by the "Hillside Strangler," setting off a media frenzy. In this piece a motorcade of women followed a hearse from the Woman's Building to the front steps of City Hall, where a news conference had been called. When the hearse parked, nine women robed in black and tall hats that cloaked their faces emerged. A final woman, the tenth (representing the number of women strangled up to date) joined the formation dramatically dressed in red. In response to the sensationalization of these crimes and the victims' lives, Lacy and Labowitz-Starus offered a sobering response of mourning, anger, and action. In the wake of this performance, politicians and rape crisis outreach organizations pledged to do more to prevent crimes against women.


    Media performance (Los Angeles City Hall)
    Courtesy of artist. Photograph by Maria Karras

  • Instant Theater (1953)

    Rachel Rosenthal

    Rachel Rosenthal's Instant Theater project was a  revolutionary performance that integrated text, movement, voice, choreography, improvisation, inventive costuming, dramatic lighting, and wildly imaginative sets into an unforgettable theater experience.


    Photograph 8 x 10 in. each
    Courtesy of the artist

  • Electronic Cafe Multicultural Production Team (1984)

    Kit Galloway & Sherrie Rabinowitz

    The Satellite Arts series marks the first time that the geographically dispersed electronic image was contextualized as a live immersive place, where artists, and sometimes others, could convene and co–create together on a scale that could be as culturally inclusive as desired.


    Photograph
    From the collection of Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz

  • Field Piece-Nude Walk Through (Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles) (1971)

    Barbara T. Smith

    The final installation of Field Piece consisted of 180 ten-foot translucent fiberglass columns on a foam platform that produced sound and light via the audience entering the work and stepping on a trip switch.


    Fiberglass, wood, Ethafoam, electronics, speakers and lights, and Interactive sculptural environment) 20 x 24 x 10 ft
    Courtesy of the artist and The Box Gallery, Los Angeles. Photograph by Boris Sojka Photograph by Boris Sojka

  • EZTV (1977)

    EZTV


    Mixed media 20 x 30 in
    Collection of EZTV

  • Crowd at F-Space (1972)

    Barbara T. Smith


    Photograph 8 x 10 in
    Courtesy of the artist and The Box Gallery, Los Angeles. Photograph by Boris Sojka

  • Nude Frieze (Photo of BTS in the Performance) (1972)

    Barbara T. Smith


    8 x10 in
    Courtesy of the artist and The Box Gallery, Los Angeles. Photograph by Boris Sojka

  • Electronic Cafe Multicultural Production Team (1984)

    Kit Galloway Sherri Rabinowitz



    From the collection of Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz

  • Hole in Space (Los Angeles Location) (1980)

    Kit Galloway & Sherrie Rabinowitz



    From the collection of Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz

  • Charm Performance (1977)

    Rachel Rosenthal


    8 x 10 in
    Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Cindy Upchurch

  • Clear Canvas (1984)

    James Williams


    Video still, taken from VHS 5 minutes
    Collection of EZTV

  • The Case of the Missing Consciousness (1980)

    John Dorr


    Flyer for film event 8.5 x 11 in
    Collection of EZTV

  • Record Companies Drag Their Feet (Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles) (1977)

    Leslie Labowitz-Starus


    Photograph Variable
    LA Women's Video Center (Editor Peter Kirby / Collection of artist / photo by Suzanne Lacy)

  • Take Back the Night (San Francisco) (1978)

    Suzanne Lacy & Leslie Labowitz-Starus


    Color photograph
    Collection of the artists. Photograph by Robbie Blalack

18th Street Arts Center

Collaboration Labs: Southern California Artists and the Artist Space Movement

Collaboration Labs takes an in-depth look at five artists/collectives who were deeply involved in collaborative work, primarily in the 1970s, and traces how their activity fed into the founding of key alternative artists' spaces around L.A. By looking for the first time at the constellation of Rachel Rosenthal, Barbara T. Smith,Suzanne Lacy/Leslie Labowitz, Kit Galloway & Sherrie Rabinowitz (Electronic Cafe International), and EZTV, the exhibition reveals how ephemeral, time-based art—so often, by necessity, collaborative—was forged in mutual dialogue with the alternative artist-run spaces that increasingly shaped the landscape of post-war L.A. art.
09/24/2011 – 03/16/2012
18th Street Arts Center
1639 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404