Admission: Free; no reservations required. Location: 830 North Highland Ave., Los Angeles, CA
This event is part of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival.
Each night of the festival,Black Boxwill betheplace to meet, drink, talk and enjoy exciting programming and performance. Each night will feature different surprise performances.
This event is made possible by generous support from Joel Chen.
Barbara T. Smith and Kim Jones will discuss their own historic works and the milieu of Los Angeles performance art in a conversation among colleagues. Smith was an important participant in the thriving feminist performance movement that evolved in LA in the early 1970s. Jones’ famous “Mudman” persona was a challenging life-as-art project that brought resonances of an American experience in Vietnam to the streets of Los Angeles. The artists will contextualize their practices in dialogue, and reflect on a trajectory that has brought them to the present. Developed in 2007 by Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade at LA><ART, Talks About Acts is a series of conversations, presentations and performances that inform the contemporary discussion around performance practices. Previous participants have included Scoli Acosta, Ron Athey, Andrea Fraser, Coco Fusco, Lia Gangitano, Los Super Elegantes, Ann Magnuson, José Muñoz, Mario Ybarra, Jr., and Eleanor Antin, whose keynote talk in 2007 laid the foundation for this year’s project.
