CHANGE AGENTS READING LIST — M
On the occasion of the publication of PARIS LA 17—CHANGE AGENTS (2021–2022): An intermittent, open-ended, alphabetical Reading List, expanding on the artists, works, and concepts raised in the print issue.
WILL RAWLS — I MAKE ME [SIC]
Will Rawls brings his performance work “I make me [sic]” to Los Angeles this weekend. The piece—an autobiographical deconstruction in a new 30-minute version—“builds a portrait of Rawls' performance labor in other works.” This inaugural Pace Live event in the
RAY ANTHONY BARRETT — GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
This week, join chef and artist Ray Anthony Barrett and curators Essence Harden and Bianca Morán for a conversation following the screening of Barrett’s film GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN, an “[interrogation of] the evolution of agricultural and land practices and
LAURE PROUVOST — DEEP SEE BLUE SURROUNDING YOU
DEEP SEE BLUE SURROUNDING YOU / VOIS CE BLEU PROFOND TE FONDRE—Laure Prouvost’s immersive work for the 2019 Venice Biennale—is now in its final weeks at its closing venue, Bonnefanten in the Netherlands. The installation includes the artist’s 30-minute film
CHANGE AGENTS READING LIST — L
On the occasion of the publication of PARIS LA 17—CHANGE AGENTS (2021–2022): An intermittent, open-ended, alphabetical Reading List, expanding on the artists, works, and concepts raised in the print issue.
LUCAS HNATH — A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2
Fifteen years after Nora left her husband and children and exited her home for parts unknown, she has cause to return to the house of a marriage she assumed had ended long ago. Except—thanks to her husband Torvald's spite, lassitude,
CHASE JOYNT — FRAMING AGNES
This week at the Hammer Museum and UCLA’s Charles M. Young Research Library, filmmaker Chase Joynt, historian Jules Gill-Peterson, and sociologist Kristen Schilt will engage in conversations about transgender, two-spirit, gender-expansive, and intersex representation over the course of two evenings.The
DU YUN AND MICHAEL JOSEPH MCQUILKEN — IN OUR DAUGHTER’S EYES
IN OUR DAUGHTER'S EYES—the new opera composed by Du Yun with a libretto by Michael Joseph McQuilken—states its intentions from the start: “I have decided to become the protector of your story, of who we were before you.” Moving restlessly
EUGEN JEBELEANU — POPPY FIELD
POPPY FIELD is a policier that examines the temperament and stability of its own protagonist (Cristi, played by Conrad Mericoffer), a young, deeply closeted officer on the Bucharest force. Greeting his long-distance lover—Radouan Leflahi as Hadi, a flight attendant in town
HUMA BHABHA — UCLA DEPARTMENT OF ART LECTURE
Bhabha—whose work “embraces a post-modern hybridity that spans centuries, geographies, art historical traditions, and cultural associations”—is in Los Angeles this week to give the UCLA Department of Art Lecture.
