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19/10/2009

Two exhibitions

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions LACE, Los Angeles

I feel different
Curated by Jennifer Doyle

LACE is pleased to present I Feel Different, a multi-media group exhibition organized by guest curator Jennifer Doyle. Participating artists: Nao Bustamante, James Luna, Lezley Saar, David Wojnarowicz, Monica Duncan, Lara Odell, Susan Silton, and Niña Yhared (1814).

This provocative project explores both the experience of feeling different from others and the transformational power of art to make one feel differently. Most of the time, we attend museums and galleries with our social armor “up” – approaching art with sophistication, irony, and even a degree of cynicism.

This exhibit gathers together artists working in the unusual registers of the sentimental and the sincere – testing the limits of what kinds of emotional expression are possible within art. In doing so, they ask us if tears register as “real” in art (and what happens when they do), what happens when we are asked to take on an artist’s outrage, depression, or pleasure as our own, or how much can an artist can really change how we feel (and if this what we want from them). The show acknowledges that contemporary art is powerfully defined by the relationship between art and the spectator, and asserts that emotion plays a major part in this story.

I Feel Different opens with an evening of moody performance – a reading by Raquel Gutierrez (the text of which is available on the exhibition’s website), and live performances by LACE resident artist Niña Yhared (1814) and James Luna. Niña Yhared will also be performing a special cabaret at Wildness on Oct 13, 2009 (2700 West 7th St., LA 90057).

I Feel Different is made possible with the generous support of the Pasadena Art Alliance and the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Los Angeles, Cultural Exchange International grant.

Opening reception: Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 8PM
with performances by resident artist Niña Yhared (1814) and James Luna

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Mark Tribe

LACE is pleased to present Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project, a video installation depicting reenactments of protest speeches from the New Left movement of the Vietnam era. Each reenactement took place at the site of the original speech and was delivered by an actor or performance artist to an audience of invited guests and passers-by.

Drawing upon traditions of political protest, civil rights, and public address, Port Huron Project reenactments traveled across the country and encouraged audience participation and dialogue. Employing actors and artists to restage these radical and historically monumental speeches, the project examines artists’ relationships with the roots of American democracy, and the way in which these issues are still relevant today.

“The goal was to use the speeches not just as historical ready-mades or conceptual-art explorations of context, but also as a genuine form of protest, to point out with the help of art how much has changed, yet how much remains the same.” – Mark Tribe

Last year, LACE teamed up with Creative Time and Mark Tribe to present Cesar Chavez's 1971 speech We Are Also Responsible at Exposition Park. The documentation of this performance and other Port Huron Project reenactments, including The Liberation of Our People: Angela Davis 1969/2008 and Let Another World Be Born: Stokely Carmichael 1967/2008, were later screened on campuses, in art spaces, and distributed online as an open-source media. Locations included Park Avenue Armory in New York City, the National Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, and MTV's oversized HD screen in Times Square.

With large-scale video projections, the upcoming installation at LACE will bring these reenactments to life within the exhibition space. This encompassing spectacle will allow viewers to step inside each scene and become a part of the reenactment audience. With evocative declarations and calls to actions, the video reenactments will allow audience members to experience the events that have undoubtedly shaped the world today.

Opening reception: Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 8PM

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions LACE
6522 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles USA
open: Wednesday - Sunday, noon - 6pm
Fridays, noon - 9pm

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