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  • Broken Shoes (Skeleton) (1978)

    Cheri Gaulke

    Broken Shoes, an art performance by Cheri Gaulke with Nancy Angelo, Anne Gauldin, Sue Maberry, Meridee Mandio, Barbara Smith and Chris Wong, was part of the Public Spirit series. Here Gaulke is dancing with a skeleton puppet with bound feet. As part of Los Angeles Goes Live, Gaulke was commissioned to present Peep Totter Fly, a new interactive video installation and performance that revisits the artist's 1970s–80s critique of high heels. The installation will include an evocative video of high heels juxtaposed within natural environments. Viewers will have an opportunity to try on red high-heeled shoes for men and women, sizes 5–16. Gaulke’s project will kick-off with an opening performance on the streets of Hollywood for the exhibition opening on September 27, 2011. 


    Performance
    Courtesy of Cheri Gaulke. Photograph by Sheila Ruth © Cheri Gaulke

  • Columbus Day: A Doggerel (1980)

    Ulysses Jenkins

    This collage by Ulysses Jenkins represents a performance that was part of Public Spirit: Live Art in L.A., a performance at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions in Downtown Los Angeles, which included dance, sound, live music, performance, an altar installation, Benny Duarte (a Brazilian Capoeira dancer), Jessie "Choy" Castor (a Mexican Indian drummer), Billy Harris (an African American jazz saxophonist), Onje (an African American vibraharpist), and Ulysses Jenkins (a Native American and African American artist/griot).


    Performance
    Collage by Ulysses Jenkins © Ulysses Jenkins.

  • David and the Giant (1978)

    Kim Jones

    Performance by Kim Jones, aka Mudman, that reenacted the biblical fight between David and the giant Goliath, using a three-foot-tall plaster cast of Michaelangelo's famous statue. The performance took place at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) in Downtown Los Angeles.


    Performance
    © Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)

  • Cheap Talk (Great Wall Series) (1980)

    Linda Nishio

    Cheap Talk was a part of the exhibition Public Spirit: Live Art in LA, a performance at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition (LACE), in downtown Los Angeles.


    Performance
    © Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

  • Meridian Pass (1982)

    Rudy Perez

    This site specific group work was choreographed by Rudy Perez and performed at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition (LACE).


    Performance, dance.

  • Hey! Baby, Chickey! (1982)

    Nina Sobell

    This live performance and video by Nina Sobell was performed with actor Chris Shearer and puppets. 


    Performance
    Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)

  • Grinning in Space (1980)

    John M. White

    This performance and installation piece by John White, which took place at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) in Downtown Los Angeles, involved a high level of audience participation.


    Performance/Installation
    Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)

  • Transitions: Survival Skills in a Surburban Landscape (2011)

    Denise Uyehara

    For Los Angeles Goes Live at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Denise Uyehara will perform a piece based on James Luna’s 1975 performance of Transitions, which evokes cultural customs from her Okinawan heritage.


    Performance
    Photograph by Carol Cheh © Denise Uyehara

  • Cuts: A Traditional Sculpture; Poster 2011 (2011)

    Heather Cassils

    A poster for Heather Cassil's project of 2011 for Los Angeles Goes Live at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE).


    Performance, print media, Web-based, mobile application
    Design by Cathy Davies Heather Cassils

  • Tiresias (2010)

    Heather Cassils

    Photograph from Tiresias by Heather Cassils, presented in 2010 as part of the Gutted benefit at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE).


    Performance, installation
    Photograph by Robert Crouch Heather Cassils

  • Promotional Photo for Athco, or The Renaissance of Faggot Tree (2010)

    Dorian Wood

    Dorian Wood will create a public installation and performance called Athco, or The Renaissance of Faggot Tree for Los Angeles Goes Live at LACE in October 2011.


    Performance
    Photograph by Emmanuel Briseno Dorian Wood, 2011

  • Broken Shoes (1978)

    Cheri Gaulke

    Performers removing the shoes of audience members during Broken Shoes, an art performance by Cheri Gaulke with Nancy Angelo, Anne Gauldin, Sue Maberry, Meridee Mandio, Barbara Smith and Chris Wong. The performance was part of the Public Spirit series.


    Performance
    Courtesy of Cheri Gaulke. Photograph by Sheila Ruth © Cheri Gaulke

  • Broken Shoes (Puppets) (1978)

    Cheri Gaulke

    Pictured here are performers attaching puppet strings to the shoes of audience members during Broken Shoes, an art performance by Cheri Gaulke with Nancy Angelo, Anne Gauldin, Sue Maberry, Meridee Mandio, Barbara Smith and Chris Wong. The performance was part of the Public Spirit series.


    Performance
    Courtesy of Cheri Gaulke. Photograph by Sheila Ruth © Cheri Gaulke

  • James Luna High Portrait Press Photo (Date unknown)

    James Luna

    James Luna will be collaborating with Denise Uyehara on her piece for Los Angeles Goes Live. Uyehara's performance will be based on Luna's performance of Transitions in 1975.



  • Food Is the Medium? (1980)

    The Kipper Kids

    As part of Public Spirit: Live Art in L.A., the Kipper Kids perform at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE).


    Performance
    Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)

  • Three Weeks in May, Performance by Suzanne Lacy, 1977, Los Angeles (1977)

    Suzanne Lacy

    Women stamp the word rape at locations in Los Angeles where acts of rape had been committed the previous day. Lacy retrieved daily police reports and recorded them on the maps for a three-week period.


    Performance Art
    © Suzanne Lacy

  • Three Weeks in May, Performance by Suzanne Lacy, 1977, Los Angeles (1977)

    Suzanne Lacy

    Women at a rally led by city council woman Pat Russell, and a self-defense demonstration led by Betty Brooks, located in the center of Los Angeles.


    Performance art
    © Suzanne Lacy

  • Ready to Order (1978)

    The Waitresses

    Ready to Order has a designed seven-day structure, which included vignettes performed in restaurants during mealtimes, and bilingual panels and workshops presented nightly, which focus on issues of women and work, money, sexual harassment, and stereotypes of woman as mother, servant, prostitute, and slave. One of the characters was called the Waitress Goddess Diana. Included in the piece were Anne Gauldin, Jerri Allyn, Leslie Bell, Patti Nicklaus, Jamie Wildman, and Denise Yarfitz Pierre.


    Public Art
    Photograph by Maria Karras Jerri Allyn

LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)

Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983

Los Angeles Goes Live explores the history and legacy of performance art in Southern California in the 1970s and early 1980s through an exhibition, performance series and an accompanying publication. The exhibition invites audiences to interrogate the central issues at the core of performance art practice including ways in which performance art can be revisited after the fact. Challenging traditional approaches to revisiting performance art, the exhibition includes Recollecting Performance, in the main gallery, which showcases performance art garments and props curated by Ellina Kevorkian that have gone unseen since their original performance. The Los Angeles Goes Live performance series will serve as a platform to spark dialog and creative actions that span the generations of Los Angeles's performance art history. LACE has commissioned several artists who will re-stage and re-invent historic performances in Los Angeles from the 1970s. Artists include Jerri Allyn, Ulysses Jenkins, Cheri Gaulke, Suzanne Lacy, Liz Glynn, Heather Cassils, Ellina Kevborkian, Dorian Wood, Denise Uyehara and OJO.
09/27/2011 – 01/29/2012
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
6522 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028