Columbia University professor Kellie Jones will discuss “the global reaches of performance art during the 1970s through the lens of projects by Latin American and African American artists”—including Adrian Piper, Senga Nengudi, Felipe Ehrenberg, Lourdes Grobet, and David Lamelas—and considers “the circumstances that allowed performance to be dispersed effortlessly into the flow of everyday life.”*
ASPECTS OF GLOBAL PERFORMANCE IN THE 1970s*
Tuesday, December 4, at 7:30 pm.
Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood, Los Angeles.
See “Making Doors: Linda Goode Bryant in conversation with Senga Nengudi,” Ursula 1 (Winter 2018).
Top: David Lamelas, Office of Information about the Vietnam War at Three Levels: The Visual Image, Text and Audio, 1968. Image credit: MoMA.
Above: Felipe Ehrenberg performance.
Below: Lourdes Grobet, Horas y media, 1975. © Lourdes Grobet.
