Screening + Discussion

with Inga Lāce

11.07.18 / 6pm

A curator visiting from Riga, Latvia, Inga Lāce will present a talk focused on her curatorial practice that often connects the art (historical) with social and political. She will highlight one of her recent curatorial projects at the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, a research and exhibition project titled "Portable Landscapes,” which examined art and life of the Latvian exile and emigrant communities throughout the 20th century. The project followed several artistic protagonists in the centers of the Latvian diaspora—Paris, Berlin, New York, Montreal and Sweden—and connected those individual stories of migration to a common network situated within the broader context of twentieth-century art history and wider processes of migration and globalization. "Portable Landscapes” aimed to create an understanding of our contemporary world that is informed by these historical events.

Lāce will also present Karol Radziszewski’s film America is not ready for this (2012), which was included in “Portable Landscapes” in Riga. The work illuminates the context of the New York art scene in the late 1960s and 1970s, a time when many of the Latvian diasporic artists would also be entering the scene and working.

The inspiration and starting point for Radziszewski’s film was the Polish artist Natalia LL’s stay in New York in 1977. Thirty-four years later, Karol Radziszewski decided to embark on a journey to America to meet with the artists and gallery owners that Natalia LL had met with during her stay in the United States. With only a few black-and-white photographs and some names scribbled in a small notebook, Radziszewski began his artistic investigation. He talked with the artists Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, AA Bronson and Carolee Schneemann; the gallerist Antonio Homem; the critic Douglas Crimp; and Warhol superstar Mario Montez. The protagonists of the film recall the atmosphere of New York in the 1970s, providing a picture of what Natalia LL would have been confronted with at that time.

Radziszewski revives Natalia LL’s memories, confronting both Polish and Western narratives of art history and raising a series of questions on issues such as gender, feminist art, conceptual art and queer and East-West relations and their impact on the art world in the context of the period of the Iron Curtain. The film is both a search for parallels between the artistic experiences of Natalia LL and Karol Radziszewski, as well as an attempt to examine the rules governing the positioning of artists in the art world, both in the 1970s and today.

Artadia Art + Dialogue

with Dexter Wimberly

10.18.18 / 6pm

Join independent curator, Dexter Wimberly for an in-depth discussion about his curatorial practice, recent exhibition highlights, and major shifts in the art world's landscape, including self-empowerment and entrepreneurship. During his time in Los Angeles, Wimberly will meet with 8 Artadia Awardees.

Dexter Wimberly is an entrepreneur and independent curator who has organized exhibitions and developed programs with galleries and institutions throughout the world including The Third Line (Dubai); Koki Arts (Tokyo); Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC; and the Museum of Arts and Design (NYC). His exhibitions have been reviewed and featured in publications including The New York Times, Artforum, and Hyperallergic; and have received support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Wimberly served on the board of the New York-based arts nonprofit, The Laundromat Project for 4 years and actively supports other arts organizations. Prior to developing his curatorial practice, Wimberly was the founder and CEO of the pioneering marketing and public relations agency, August Bishop. Wimberly has also served as Director of Communications for The Museum for African Art, NY; Director of Strategic Planning at Independent Curators International, NY; and Executive Director of Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ.

This talk is co-presented by LAXART and Artadia.

What Constitutional Law Can Learn From Sculpture, a lecture by Ragen Moss

09.15.18 / 3pm

This lecture by artist and lawyer Ragen Moss utilizes art to perform specific and pointed work on Constitutional questions. During the piece, Moss will build a radical theory of spatiality learned by sculpture, geography, and sociology, and apply it to important areas of U.S. Constitutional Law and the fundamental human rights protected by that law, especially reproductive freedom. Moss turns to art as a useful tool for challenging preconceived notions of important social and political issues.

Jolly Melancholy, a Video Program

09.14.18 / 3pm

DANIELLE DEAN,
SARAH M. HARRISON + WOJCIECH KOSMA,
RINDON JOHNSON,
NEVIN KALLEPALLI,
MARGIE SCHNIBBE

Organized by LAXART Curatorial Assistant, Makayla Bailey, this hour-long video program and conversation features works that move through narrative, humor, and inverted cinematic tropes to casually investigate systemic power and identity as both fabricated affect and material experience. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the curator.

Working/Talking/ Serving/Swerving

A Bodied Discussion of Adam Linder’s Choreographic Services 1-5 + a Footnote

07.06.18 / 6pm

One of modern art’s most salient characteristics is its ability to question itself. Given that this capacity for self-reflection was brokered over abstraction, does it apply to dance? That question underscores all of dancer/choreographer Adam Linder’s performances whose location is decidedly that of the museum/gallery. Linder is best know for his choreographic services, works which pointedly ask what kind of labor is dance. Linder will premier a new work in the form of a performative lecture. Linder has exhibited throughout Europe, the U.S. and his native Australia. He is the recipient of the Hammer Museum’s 2016 Mohn Prize.

All events are first come, first serve until we reach capacity. We recommend an early arrival and ride share when possible. This project is supported in part through a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts.

Person, a performance series by Bashir David Naim

07.03.18 / 9:30pm

Artist Bashir Daviid Naim hosts his latest edition of Person, a roving club night and series of performances co-founded by the artist in 2016. Featuring performances by Dia Dear, Davia Spain, and Elliot Reed///DJs @bbyshamu @baexploitation @ramdasha///Floral installation by M. Page Greene & More TBA/// $10 suggested donation at door (to benefit performers).

Find yourself at Person

This project is supported in part through a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts.

Reading + Conversation

With Hilton Als and Robin Coste Lewis

06.29.18 / 7:30pm

Writer and critic Hilton Als will read from his ongoing body of work that investigates various narratives of race and gender. The reading will be followed by a conversation between Als and poet Robin Coste Lewis.

This project is supported in part through a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs and through the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts.

The Wakanda Effect, a Discussion

06.28.18 / 7pm

Using the blockbuster movie Black Panther as a starting point, this conversation will consider the trajectory of black radical thought, activism and the black political imagination as it has evolved since the 1960s. This conversation will be moderated by Hamza Walker, and will feature Edgar Arceneaux, Funmilola Fagbamila, and Shana Redmond.

All events are first come, first serve until we reach capacity. We recommend an early arrival and ride share when possible. This project is supported in part through a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs and through the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts.

Alternative Spaces, a Discussion with Dorit Cypis, Joy Silverman, Bob Smith and Hamza Walker

06.29.18 / 7:30pm

Since their flourishing in the mid 1970s, alternative art spaces have had an illustrious history—from the championing of new media and performance, which were outside the purview of commercial galleries, to the role they played in identifying and supporting artists that defined the 1980s, to their reconceptualization by a new generation of artists and curators in the early part of the 21st century. Join us for this conversation with Dorit Cypis, Joy Silverman, Bob Smith, and LAXART director Hamza Walker to discuss the changing cultural and socio-political landscape undergirding the role of alternative spaces over the past forty years.

This project is supported in part through a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs.

Kim Gordon + Leila Bordreuil

in Concert

06.14.18 / 7pm

The meeting between these seasoned improvisors is a first. Come what may, the sounds couldn’t get any fresher in what will be a no-holds-barred foray into tension and release. Between Bordreuil’s building of sustained microtonal resonances and Gordon’s penchant for a pulse, whether rapid or soothing, structure is not out of the question. But neither is building a house only to watch it burn.

Doors at 7pm
Performance at 8pm

All events are first come, first serve until we reach capacity. We recommend an early arrival and ride share when possible.
This project is supported in part through a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs and through the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts.

Jazz Session with Ambrose Akinmusire + Peter Evans

06.04.18 / 7pm

In 1954, jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie and Roy Eldridge recorded The Trumpet Kings Battle at Radio Recorders, the legendary recording studio, which is now home to LAXART. With that session as a blueprint, we present Akinmusire and Evans, two of today’s most well regarded trumpet talents. Both have chops to burn and are heavily steeped in a jazz tradition ranging from straight ahead ensemble work to solo improvisation. They will square off as improvisers, each with his own deep bag of tricks.

All events are first come, first serve until we reach capacity. We recommend an early arrival and ride share when possible.

Doors at 7pm

I Heart Poetry + Day Drinking with Amy Gerstler + Ariana Reines

06.06.18 / 12pm

Certain cultural itches only poetry can scratch. Learn what they are over a cocktail or three. We know it’s Saturday and you could get your muffler fixed; but the muffler shop will be there the next day while this bouquet of talent is assembled for one day and one day only. Cheers.

This is the first in a new series of poetry events at LAXART featuring leading American poets and cocktails by mixologists dujour. Drinks provided by Winsome.