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ART-RITE LAUNCH

Join ART-RITE founding co-editor Walter Robinson, Pat Steir, Robin Winters, moderator Carlo McCormick, and host Jeffrey Deitch for a panel discussion and launch of the facsimile reprint of ART-RITE.

Collected in a 600-plus-page volume, this co-publication of Primary Information and Printed Matter contains all twenty issues of the newsprint magazine edited by Robinson, Edit DeAk, and Joshua Cohn—who would leave after issue 7—between 1973 and 1978.

(DeAk, Robinson, Sol LeWitt, and Lucy Lippard were among Printed Matter’s 1976 co-founders.)

Contributors to ART-RITE included Vito Acconci, Kathy Acker, Bas Jan Ader, Laurie Anderson, David Antin, John Baldessari, Jennifer Bartlett, Gregory Battcock, Lynda Benglis, Mel Bochner, Christian Boltanski, AA Bronson, Marcel Broodthaers, Trisha Brown, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Scott Burton, Ulises Carrión, Judy Chicago, Lucinda Childs, Christo, Diego Cortez, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Ralston Farina, Richard Foreman, Peggy Gale, Gilbert and George, John Giorno, Philip Glass, Leon Golub, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Julia Heyward, Nancy Holt, Ray Johnson, Joan Jonas, Richard Kern, Lee Krasner, Shigeko Kubota, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, Babette Mangolte, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Gordon Matta-Clark, Rosemary Mayer, Annette Messager, Elizabeth Murray, Alice Neel, Brian O’Doherty, Genesis P-Orridge, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, Judy Pfaff, Lil Picard, Yvonne Rainer, Dorothea Rockburne, Ed Ruscha, Robert Ryman, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Carolee Schneemann, Richard Serra, Sylvia Sleigh, Jack Smith, Patti Smith, Robert Smithson, Holly Solomon, Naomi Spector, Nancy Spero, Pat Steir, Frank Stella, David Tremlett, Richard Tuttle, Alan Vega, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, Hannah Wilke, Robert Wilson, and Irene von Zahn.

ART-RITE PANEL and LAUNCH

Tuesday, December 10, at 7 pm.

Jeffrey Deitch

18 Wooster Street, New York City.

From top: Art-Rite (2); Edit DeAk, photograph by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; Walter Robinson, photograph by Greenfield-Sanders; Art-Rite facsimile reprint cover; Art-Rite cover by Christo; Art-Rite launch card. Images courtesy and © the photographer, Walter Robinson, Primary Information, and Printed Matter.

SARAH SCHULMAN AND MATIAS VIEGENER

In conjunction with the I, I, I, I, I, I, I, KATHY ACKER exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Sarah Schulman will join Matias Viegener for a conversation about Schulman’s three decades of work and their shared friendship with Acker.

Schulman will also read from her recent novels The Cosmopolitans and Maggie Terry.

THE REALM OF THE RECOGNISABLE—

SARAH SCHULMAN in conversation with MATIAS VIEGENER

Saturday, May 4, at 6:30 pm.

Institute of Contemporary Arts

The Mall, London.

See Lisa Appignanesi on Acker.

From top: Sarah Schulman; Stagestruck, by Schulman; The Assassination of Kathy Acker, by Matias Viegener; Viegener, photograph by Samuel Ace; ICA exhibition announcement (detail), 2019. Images courtesy of the authors, publishers, photographers, and ICA, London.

I’M VERY INTO YOU, STAGED

I’M VERY INTO YOU—the mid-nineties email correspondence between Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark, published in 2015 by Semiotext(e)—has been adapted and directed for the stage by Sara Lyons, and will be performed as part of Los Angeles Performance Practice’s LAX Festival.

Lyons gathers a local cast of feminist, queer and non-binary underground artists—including Gina Young, Paul Outlaw, Jennifer Jonassen, Provvidenza Catalano, Yves Agustin Armando, Jer Adrianne Lelliott, Robin Podolsky, and Elspeth Weingarten—who embody Acker and Wark from points across a wide gender spectrum. Their feverish digital exchange is interspersed with the ensemble’s own stories of gender slippage and online intimacy, examining how our connections have evolved over the last two decades—through the internet and through expanding queer expression.*

I’M VERY INTO YOU*

Saturday, October 13, and Sunday, October 21, at 6 pm.
Sunday, October 14, and Tuesday, October 16, at 8 pm.
Thursday, October 18, at 10 pm.

Think Tank Gallery, 939 Maple Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

I’m Very Into You in performance. Photographs by Rolando Sepulveda II/OUTsider.

Book cover image courtesy Semiotext(e).

CHRIS KRAUS AND BRUCE HAINLEY IN ECHO PARK

Last fall, a Boyle Heights anti-gentrification protest prevented Chris Kraus (After Kathy Acker) and Bruce Hainley (Under the Sign of [sic]: Sturtevant’s Volte-Face) from meeting as scheduled at 356 Mission to discuss Kraus’ Acker biography.

Their conversation is back on, relocated to Echo Park.

 

CHRIS KRAUS and BRUCE HAINLEY IN CONVERSATION, Monday, January 22, at 6 pm.

EDENDALE BRANCH—LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY, 2011 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.

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Kathy Acker in the late 1980s. Photograph by Mark Baker.

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AFTER CHRIS KRAUS

“Memoirists are seldom as precise as novelists.” — Gore Vidal*

Chris Kraus, Tisa Bryant, Anelise Chen, and Q.M. Zhang will be at USC this week for a discussion on “hybrid storytelling” and the widespread influence of Kraus’ first book LOVE DICK (1997) since its republication a few years back.

 

I LOVE DICK—

FOUR WOMEN WRITERS ON HYBRID STORYTELLING

Friday, November 3, at 5:30 pm.

Doheny Memorial Library, USC

3550 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles.

See “Hybrid ‘I’: Tisa Bryant, Anelise Chen, Chris Kraus, and Q.M. Zhang in conversation,” PARIS LA 16 (2018):

*Gore Vidal, Two Sisters: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir (Boston: Little, Brown, 1970), 213.

Above, from left: Tisa Bryant, Chris Kraus, Anelise Chen, and Q.M. Zhang at USC, November 3, 2017.

Below: Kraus.at USC, November 3, 2017.