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NAYLAND BLAKE’S GENDER DISCARD PARTY

A couple of years ago I came to a realization: If I’m interested in those artists’ ideas that have fallen outside of the institutional, my only option is to try to carry them forward in some way. It’s about letting art escape from the mechanisms of art history and consensus. There are going to be parts that are invisible to most people. There’s something exciting about that invisibility to me—we live in such an entirely overexposed time. You talk about market forces; I’ve seen an emerging alignment between critical discussion, market activity, and museological practice in the past couple of decades. It comes as no surprise to me that anything that functions in any one of those forums functions in all three of them. At this point, the mechanism is so streamlined that it’s hard to imagine what you could do that would escape that dynamic.Nayland Blake*

Join Marvin Astorga, Nao Bustamante, Ron Athey, Robert Crouch, Jennifer Doyle, Jamillah James, Young Joon Kwak, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, and Bradford Nordeen at Zebulon for an evening of performance, music, and dance at Nayland Blake’s FIRST INTERNATIONAL INTERGENERATIONAL GENDER DISCARD PARTY.

The event marks the closing day of Blake’s ICA LA exhibition NO WRONG HOLES—THIRTY YEARS OF NAYLAND BLAKE.

DISGENDER EUPHORIA—NAYLAND BLAKE’S FIRST INTERNATIONAL INTERGENERATIONAL GENDER DISCARD PARTY

Sunday, January 26, from 8 pm to midnight.

Zebulon

2478 Fletcher Drive, Los Angeles.

*“Rachel Harrison and Nayland Blake” interview, Bomb 105, Fall 2008.

From top: Nayland Blake; Nayland Blake, Untitled, 2000, charcoal on paper; Nayland Blake, Untitled, 2007, graphite and colored pencil on paper; Nao Bustamante as Conchita, photograph by Austin Young; Nayland Blake, Kit No. 7 (Flush), 1990, rubber gloves, stainless steel cups, belt, hose, shelf, books; Nayland Blake, Equipment for a Shameful Epic, 1993, mixed media; Nayland Blake, Crossing Object (Inside Gnomen), 2017, mixed media. Images courtesy and © the artists, the photographers, ICA LA, and Matthew Marks Gallery.

LUMINOUS PROCURESS

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Steve Seid—a former curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive—led BAMPFA’s recent restoration of LUMINOUS PROCURESS (1971), and will co-present the film at Redcat with Dirty Looks and Bradford Nordeen.*

This San Francisco Satyricon (and the film debut of The Cockettes), is “a lavishly appointed queer underground epic,” and the only feature film directed by the late, great Dalí protégé Steven Arnold.**

 

LUMINOUS PROCURESS, Monday, March 26, at 8:30.

REDCAT, Disney Hall, Music Center, 631 West 2nd Street, downtown Los Angeles.

redcat.org/steven-arnold-luminous-procuress

See: stevenarnoldarchive.com

*The Walker Art Center joined BAMPFA in restoring the film.

** filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu/luminous-procuress

Above: Still from Luminous Procuress.

Image credit below: Dirty Looks.

Bottom: Pandora in Luminous Procuress.

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BRONTEZ PURNELL BOOK LAUNCH

Twooga Booga will host the book launch of SINCE I LAID MY BURDEN DOWN by Brontez Purnell on Thursday night, July 6, at 7 pm.

Join Purnell and Bradford Nordeen for a Q & A, as well as a screening of Purnell’s film 100 BOYFRIENDS MIXTAPE.

TWOOGA BOOGA, 356 South Mission Road, Los Angeles.

Brontez Purnell: Since I Laid My Burden Down

mtv.com/news/3021634/brontez-purnell-burden-book-review/

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KEMBRA PFAHLER IN PERFORMANCE

Between 11 and midnight on June 24, the closing hour of WARHOL ICON, Kembra Pfahler and two comrades took the stage at The Broad’s Oculus Hall for a slashing, inimitable set of punk rock, performance art, and deadpan comedy.

Dirty Looks founder Bradford Nordeen guest-curated WARHOL ICON. He is the author of the upcoming Analog Tendencies: Queer Subversion Before the Digital Age.

See interviews with Pfahler and Nordeen, both in Bomb:

bombmagazine.org/article/7724115/kembra-pfahler

bombmagazine.org/article/83191027/bradford-nordeen

Kembra Pfahler at Warhol Icon, Oculus Hall, The Broad, June 24, 2017.

Photographs by Priscilla Mars, courtesy of The Broad.

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