Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983 September 27, 2011

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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.

Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983 is part of the groundbreaking cultural program, Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. from 1945 to 1980. Starting in October 2011, more than 60 cultural institutions across Southern California will come together to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene and how it became a major force in the art world.

The campaign features unexpected pairings between pop culture icons of today with artists featured within Pacific Standard Time. “Celebrate the Era that Continues to Inspire the World” is the theme of the campaign, which celebrates how Los Angeles art from 1945 – 1980 continues to inspire the world of music, art, film and architecture of today.

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