WEDNESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER

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1-4 PM | INTERVENING BODIES: PROBING THE PUBLIC & THE PRIVATE IN PERFORMANCE
7 PM | FRENTE 3 DE FEVEREIRO + LA LLECA + ULTRA-RED

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Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
6522 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90028
T: 323.957.1777

1-4 PM

INTERVENING BODIES: PROBING THE PUBLIC & THE PRIVATE IN PERFORMANCE

This panel and roundtable discussion will examine how the performing body resignifies space—in its perceptual, semantic, and ideological dimensions--with particular emphasis on performance that explores the interim spaces between the public and private and the civic and domestic.

Etcétera… Performance art & militant investigation group (Buenos Aires, Argentina + Santiago, Chile)

Etcétera… members Ariel Devincenzo and Nancy Garín will present video footage of the group’s surrealist street theater/protest actions and discuss the changing ethical and legal implications of their public performances in the context of recent social movements in Argentina.

María Adela Díaz Performance artist, designer, and poet (Guatemala City / Los Angeles)

Díaz’s presentation, titled “From the Visible to the Invisible,” will use a discussion of her own work to examine the feminine body in performance.

Mónica Mayer Artist and writer; author of Rosa chillante: mujeres y performance en México [Screaming
Pink: Women and Performance in Mexico] (Mexico City, Mexico)

Mayer will give a presentation on the history of political interventions by women performance artists in Mexico from the 1970s to the present (but she may also reveal some secrets).

Respondents: Carla Melo Assistant Professor, Doctoral program on Theater and Performance of the Americas at Arizona State University; founding member of Corpus Delicti Butoh Performance Lab

Alessandra Santos Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; member of Corpus Delicti Butoh Performance Lab

Elena Shtromberg Doctoral candidate, Department of Art History, University of California Los Angeles

Presentations will be given in Spanish with simultaneous English translation available.

Farmlab + Under Spring
1745 North Spring Street
Los Angeles, California 90012
T: 323.226.1158

7PM

FRENTE 3 DE FEVEREIRO + LA LLECA + ULTRA-RED

Frente 3 de Fevereiro (Sao Paulo)
Frente 3 de Fevereiro is a research and interventionist art group concerned with racism in Brazilian society. They aim to create new forms of protest pertaining to racial issues and to re-contextualize the fragmented information the general population receives via mass media. Frente 3 de Fevereiro connects with the artistic legacy of generations who thought out new ways to interact with urban space in light of the history of the Afro-Brazilian struggle and resistance.
with Daniel Lima & Felipe Teixeira Gonçalves

Chapters 1 & 2 of We Are Zumbi: A Cartography of Racism to the Urban Youth by Frente 3 de Fevereiro (English)

La Lleca (Mexico City)
Founded in 2004, La Lleca is an artist-social intervention that takes place within the prison system of Mexico City. It is not simply an attempt to develop a critique of the prison system in Mexico, but rather it's an attempt to develop methods of intervening into it and for generating collaborative knowledges about it. It is an attempt to change the institutional space a specific prison in Mexico City, its functioning, and the power relations that structure it both on a micro- and macro-level, while, at the same time, providing a physical and psychic space for the development of various workshops, relationships, and projects in collaboration with members of La Lleca.
with Brian Whitener

Ultra-red (Los Angeles...)
In the worlds of sound art and modern electronic music, Ultra-red pursue a fragile but dynamic exchange between art and political organizing. Founded in 1994 by two AIDS activists, Ultra-red have over the years expanded to include artists, researchers and organizers from different social movements including the struggles of migration, anti-racism, participatory community development, and the politics of HIV/AIDS. Exploring acoustic space as enunciative of social relations, Ultra-red take up the acoustic mapping of contested spaces and histories utilising sound-based research (termed Militant Sound Investigations) that directly engage the organizing and analyses of political struggles.
with Dont Rhine & Robert Sember

This event will be held in English, Spanish, and Portuguese with simultaneous English and Spanish translation available.