Category Archives: VIDEO

SWEET LAND — A NEW OPERA BY THE INDUSTRY

The Industry’s acclaimed, suspended production of the opera SWEET LAND—composed by Raven Chacon and Du Yun, with a libretto by Aja Couchois Duncan and Douglas Kearney—is available now to stream anytime.

Co-directed by Yuval Sharon and costume designer Cannupa Hanska Luger, SWEET LAND is a “grotesque historical pageant that disrupts the dominant narrative of American identity. Starting as a procession through Los Angeles State Historic ParkSWEET LAND becomes an opera that erases itself.”*

See link below for streaming details.

SWEET LAND—A NEW OPERA BY THE INDUSTRY*

Raven Chacon, Du Yun, Aja Couchois Duncan, and Douglas Kearney, Sweet Land, production photos by Casey Kringlen, Los Angeles State Historical Park, February, 2020. Images courtesy and © the artists, the actors, the photographer, and The Industry.

FULL PINK MOON — OPERA POVERA IN QUARANTINE

Experience and participate in FULL PINK MOON—OPERA POVERA IN QUARANTINE—a livestream durational opera with a score comprised of Pauline Oliveros’ composition The Lunar Opera: Deep Listening for _Tunes, with an original libretto and story by IONE.

The event is a fundraiser for the Equal Sound Corona Relief Fund, which is raising money to help musicians financially affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Over 250 artists are expected to join together for this event—a call to arms to the community to harness livestream technology in this time of crisis. To participate, sign in here.

There will also be a livestream pre-event discussion with artists and musicians, including Ron AtheyGeorge Lewis, and Sean Griffin.

Full Pink Moon is co-sponsored by the University of Chicago’s Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry and California Institute of the Arts.

FULL PINK MOON—OPERA POVERA IN QUARANTINE

Tuesday, April 7.

Pre-opera discussion

5 pm on the West Coast; 8 pm East Coast.

Opera performance

6 pm to midnight on the West Coast; 9 pm to 1 am East Coast.

From top: Sean Griffin, Dramaturgical Sketch 1 for Full Pink Moon, courtesy and © the artist and Opera Povera; Pauline Oliveros; poster courtesy and © Opera Povera; Griffin, Dramaturgical Sketch 2 for Full Pink Moon, courtesy and © the artist and Opera Povera.

SILKE OTTO-KNAPP IN CONVERSATION

In conjunction with the exhibition SILKE OTTO-KNAPP—IN THE WAITING ROOM—curated by Solveig Øvstebø—the Renaissance Society and the Logan Center for the Arts present MOVING IMAGES, a series of dance films by Yvonne Rainer, Babette Mangolte and Trisha Brown, and Charles Atlas and Merce Cunningham.

Post-screening, Otto-Knapp will discuss the films.

MOVING IMAGES screening with SILKE OTTO-KNAPP IN CONVERSATION

Friday, March 6, at 7 pm.

Logan Center for the Arts

915 East 60th Street, Chicago.

SILKE OTTO-KNAPP—IN THE WAITING ROOM

Through March 29.

Renaissance Society

University of Chicago, Cobb Hall, 4th Floor

5811 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago.

Top and below: Charles Atlas and Merce Cunningham, Channels / Inserts, 1982, stills, courtesy and © the artists and their estates, the dancers, and Electronic Arts Intermix. All other images: Silke Otto Knapp, In the Waiting Room, Renaissance Society, January 11, 2020–March 29, 2020, installation views, courtesy and © the artist, the photographer, and the Renaissance Society.

CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN TRIBUTE AT REDCAT

A tribute to Carolee Schneemann—a series of screenings and a panel discussion with Peggy Ahwesh, Maggie Nelson, Lauren Pratt, and Kenneth White—is at Redcat this weekend.

Among Schneeman’s films that will screen at 4 pm and 8:30 pm: VIET-FLAKES, FUSES, PLUMB LINE, WATER LIGHT / WATER NEEDLE, INTERIOR SCROLL: THE CAVE, DEVOUR, and INFINITY KISSES.

Tributes will include a text by Yvonne Rainer, read by Monica Majoli.

DANGEROUS EROTICS—A TRIBUTE TO CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN

Saturday, February 29.

Screenings at 4 pm and 8:30 pm.

Panel discussion at 5 pm.

Redcat

631 West 2nd Street, downtown Los Angeles.

Carolee Schneemann: Artwork images courtesy and © the estate of the artist, Galerie Lelong, and P.P.O.W., New York.

BETH B AND LYDIA LUNCH — THE WAR IS NEVER OVER

This week in Manhattan, independent legends and old friends Beth B and Lydia Lunch will discuss their documentary collaboration THE WAR IS NEVER OVER.

And on Valentine’s Day, the film will screen in Paris as part of Fame 2020, a festival of music films.

BETH B and LYDIA LUNCH—VISITING ARTIST LECTURE

Tuesday, February 4, at 7 pm.

School of Visual Arts Amphitheater

209 East 23rd Street, 3rd floor, New York City.

THE WAR IS NEVER OVER

Friday, February 14, at 7:30 pm.

La Gaîté Lyrique,

3 bis Rue Papin, 3rd, Paris.

From top: Lydia Lunch; Lunch, photograph by Annie Sprinkle; Beth B, The War is Never Over film poster; Teenage Jesus and the Jerks; album cover, No New York, Brian Eno’s 1978 compilation album featuring Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Mars, DNA, and James Chance and the Contortions; Beth B.