Myths of Rape by Leslie Labowitz-Starus, Performed for Three Weeks in May, Suzanne Lacy (1977)
Suzanne Lacy
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) will present Suzanne Lacy’s Three Weeks in January, a reimagining of her seminal collaborative project Three Weeks in May, a citywide series of thirty performances and interventions in 1977 that took action against rape and other forms of violence against women.
Performance
Photograph by Suzanne Lacy © Suzanne Lacy
Spine of the Earth (1980)
Lita Albuquerque
The 18th Street Art Center will present an adaptation of Lita Albuquerque’s earthwork and performance, Spine of the Earth (1980).
Powdered pigment, rock, wooden rings; ephemeral installation, El Mirage Dry Lake Bed, California
Photograph by Lita Albuquerque © Lita Albuquerque Studio 1980
Eleanor Antin as Eleanora Antinova in Before the Revolution at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1979)
Eleanor Antin
The Hammer Museum will host a major new presentation of Eleanor Antin’s performance Before the Revolution, coorganized by Antin and LA><ART.
Performance
Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York © Eleanor Antin
A Butterfly for Oakland (1974)
Judy Chicago
Pomona College Museum of Art will present Performance at Pomona, which includes a new pyrotechnic performance by Judy Chicago, based on her Atmosphere performances of the early 1970s; Burning Bridges, a re-creation of James Turrell's flare performance of 1971; and a re-creation of Preparation F, a performance by John White in 1971, involving the Pomona College football team.
Pyrotechnic performance
Photograph by Donald Woodman © Judy Chicago
Disappearing Environments (1968)
Judy Chicago, Lloyd Hamrol, and Eric Orr
Materials & Applications will reinvent Disappearing Environments, a project in 1968 by Judy Chicago, Lloyd Hamrol, and Eric Orr, which utilized thirty-seven tons of dry ice to create temporary public sculptures that dispense a field of fog as they evaporate and eventually vanish.
Dry ice environment
Miss America Piece (Date unknown)
Bodacious Buggerrilla
Performance
Photograph by Bodacious Buggerilla
Down in the Depths of the 90th Floor (2011)
Vaginal Davis
West of Rome Public Art will present Trilogy, a series of three new performances by Andrea Fraser, Mike Kelley, and Vaginal Davis, all inspired by the legacy of the Los Angeles Woman's Building.
Photograph by Hector Martinez © Vaginal Davis
Octopus City (1968)
Channa Horwitz
The California/International Art Foundation (C/IAF) will reinvent Channa Horwitz’s dance installation from 1968, Octopus City.
Performance
Image courtesy of Aanant & Zoo Gallery, Berlin, and Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Members of the Los Angeles Free Music Society Testing Pyramid Headphones (1976)
Los Angeles Free Music Society
The Society for the Activation of Social Space Through Art and Sound (SASSAS) will transform the rooms of a Los Angeles motel into a venue for live performances—microconcerts in individual motel rooms—creating a thirteen-stop tour through key moments in Los Angeles’s history of experimental music, including Los Angeles Free Music Society's Pyramid Headphones (1976).
Performance
Photography © 1976 Fredrik Nilsen, All Rights Reserved
Installing O’ Speak, Speak by artists Dale Davis, Charles Dickson, Nate Ferrantes, John Outterbridge, and Elliott Pinkney, with Panel Listen, Watch and Hear the People by Pinkney Pictured (1971)
Elliott Pinkey
The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) will present Civic Virtue: Watts Here and Now, a one-day event to be held at the Watts Towers Art Center (WTAC) featuring spoken word, jazz music, and public art sculptures in the spirit of important historical works by artists Noah Purifoy, Judson Powell, and John Outterbridge.
Color photograph
Image courtesy of the artist © Elliott Pinkney
Still Image from a Single Wing Turquoise Bird Performance (2010)
Single Wing Turquoise Bird
Los Angeles Filmforum will present a multilayered light show and expanded cinema performance by Single Wing Turquoise Bird, a critical artist collective originally active in Los Angeles in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Expanded cinema performance
© 2010 Single Wing Turquoise Bird
Telephone Concert (1976)
Robert Wilhite
The Society for the Activation of Social Space Through Art and Sound (SASSAS) will transform the rooms of a Los Angeles motel into a venue for live performances—microconcerts in individual motel rooms—creating a thirteen-stop tour through key moments in Los Angeles's history of experimental music, including Robert Wilhite's Telephone Concert of 1976.
Performance
Photograph by Gary Beydler/Jerry Byrd © Robert Wilhite
Robert Wilhite and Musical Sculpture Orchestra (1978)
Robert Wilhite
X-TRA will present Robert Wilhite’s Chinese Cocktail, a restaging of a concert performed in 1978 on musical sculptures using a visual notation system.
Performance
© Robert Wilhite
Artists' Tower of Protest, Designed by Mark di Suvero (1966)
Various Artists
Public sculpture surrounded by antiwar protest art
Photograph by Charles Brittin © Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, 2005.M.11
Members of the Los Angeles Free Music Society Testing Pyramid Headphones (1976)
Los Angeles Free Music Society
The Society for the Activation of Social Space Through Art and Sound (SASSAS) will transform the rooms of a Los Angeles motel into a venue for live performances—microconcerts in individual motel rooms—creating a thirteen-stop tour through key moments in Los Angeles's history of experimental music, including Los Angeles Free Music Society's Pyramid Headphones (1976).
Performance
Photography © 1976 Fredrik Nilsen, All Rights Reserved
