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CONCRETE ISLAND AT VENUS

Matt Johnson, Drywall #5 (Baby Aqua M440–3), 2017.
Painted wood, 72 x 101 x 72 inches (182.9 x 256.5 x 182.9 cm)
Image credit: Venus Over Manhattan

“Welcome to Concrete Island: an overlooked city within a city, an entropical paradise where leisure is lean….Listen to our walls: they speak in a rare blend of hobo shamanism and contemporary primitivism that captures the texture of the urban psyche.”*

This group show at Venus’ Boyle Heights outpost features work by Kelly Akashi, William Anastasi, Vern Blosum, Will Boone, Jedediah Caesar, Center for Land Use Interpretation, the Crenshaw Cowboy, Catharine Czudej, Jaime Davidovich, Harry Dodge, Sam Falls, Francesca Gabbiani, Kim Gordon, Matt Johnson, Lazaros, Jason Matthew Lee, Jason Bailer Losh, Tony Matelli, Pentti Monkkonen, Ruben Ochoa, Jon Pylypchuk, Ry Rocklen, Nancy Rubins, Sterling Ruby, Analia Saban, Blair Saxon-Hill, Max Hooper Schneider, Daniel R. Small, Piotr Uklanski, Kaari Upson, and Chris Wiley.

CONCRETE ISLAND, through May 20.

VENUS LOS ANGELES, 601 South Anderson Street, Los Angeles.

*venusovermanhattan.com/exhibition/concrete-island/

CELEBRATING TONY CONRAD

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A key figure of Manhattan’s avant-garde, Tony Conrad was “an integral part of the ‘secret history’ of the ’60s….from camp cinema to structural film to minimal music to experimental rock ’n’ roll to video art and more.” — Branden W. Joseph, the author of Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage (2008).*

Tony Conrad (1940–2016) composed and performed with La Monte Young and John Cale in the Theatre of Eternal Music; appeared in and prepared the musical soundtrack for Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures (1963); directed the experimental film Flicker (1966, which has been known to induce hallucinations); sang backup vocals for Lou Reed and Cale’s pre-Velvets band The Primitives; collaborated with Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler; and was part of the media studies faculty at the University of Buffalo.

“You don’t know who I am, but somehow, indirectly, you’ve been affected by things I did.” — Tony Conrad**

A year after Conrad’s death, THE BROAD MUSEUM’s Un-Private Collection series takes over the Theatre at Ace Hotel for the West Coast premiere of Tyler Hubby’s documentary film TONY CONRAD: COMPLETELY IN THE PRESENT.

Henry Rollins will moderate a post-screening conversation with Hubby and Tony Oursler, and Kim Gordon—who collaborated with Conrad—will perform a set to close out the evening.

TONY CONRAD: COMPLETELY IN THE PRESENT, Thursday, March 16 at 8 pm.

THE THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL, downtown Los Angeles.

thebroad.org/programs/un-private-collection-tony-conrad-completely-present-henry-rollins-tony-oursler-tyler-hubby

*Branden W. Joseph, email to author, in J. Hoberman, “Tony Conrad, Experimental Filmmaker and Musician, Dies at 76,” New York Times, April 9, 2016.

**The Guardian, quoted in Hoberman.

Image credit: Press notes, tonyconradmovie.com

OLIVIER ASSAYAS AND KIM GORDON AT CINEFAMILY

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In the run-up to the American release of his new film Personal Shopper, Olivier Assayas will visit Los Angeles this weekend to present a retrospective of his work at the Cinefamily.

On Saturday, March 4—after a 6:30 pm screening of two films by Guy Debord—Olivier Assayas will present five of his rare music videos and shorts. Kim Gordon—featured in Hotel Atithi—will join the director, and Jim Smith (The Smell) will play pre- and post-show sets.

HOTEL ATITHI, WINSTON TONG EN STUDIO, RECTANGLE – DEUX CHANSONS DE JACNO, LAISSE INACHEVE A TOKYO, and PARIS JE T’AIME (segment), March 4 at 9:30 pm.

Also:

IRMA VEP (with Assayas in person), March 5 at 8 pm.

CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA, March 6 at 7:30 pm.

DEMONLOVER, March 25 at 9:45 pm.

CLEAN, March 26 at 4:45 pm.

CINEFAMILY AT THE SILENT MOVIE THEATRE, Fairfax, Los Angeles.

cinefamily.org

Winston Tong en studio, directed by Olivier Assayas
Image credit: Tomorrow Started

[NEW ISSUE]: PARIS LA 15—SPRING 17—MUSIC

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PARISLA 15—SPRING 2017—MUSIC

112-page color
English edition
$20/€18

I don’t write music. We never did. Sonic Youth never did. Our writing is sitting around and playing, and reforming it. — Kim Gordon

In America we have this history where we forgive the oppressor and vilify the outsider. — Taylor Mac

I mean, I see the life politic, the life that we live all together as people, is the sum of what people throw into their world. — Wolfgang Tillmans

The last twelve months have seen Wolfgang Tillmans’ return to music after a nearly thirty-year absence, Taylor Mac’s one-time-only 24-hour concert performance, and the first release of Kim Gordon’s music under her own name.

PARISLA 15—an issue devoted to music—brings together conversations with these artists, as well as interviews with Carrie Brownstein (with Kim Gordon), Josh Da Costa and Matt Fishbeck about Solid Rain, Pulitzer Prize-winning Caroline Shaw, art and music entrepreneur Aaron Bandaroff on Know Wave, and Chloé Maratta and Flannery Silva of Odwalla88 (joined by Dean Spunt of No Age).

Issue 15 also features a conversation between LA-based curators Sohrab Mohebbi and Aram Moshayedi, and writer Gaye Theresa Johnson about her first book Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles, essays on Lady Tigra and on Black Sabbath’s final tour by Noah Lyon, Yelli Yelli in her own words, a piece by associate editor Evan Moffitt on Berlin and Bowie, an excerpt from The Standard Book of Color by Andrew Berardini, and a report from Standing Rock by Oscar Tuazon.

THE PUNK SINGER: A FILM ABOUT KATHLEEN HANNA

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The Punk Singer: A Film About Kathleen Hannah is a documentary film about the amazing inspiring feminist punk rocker Kathleen Hannah. The film features interviews with an all star cast, including, Johanna Fateman, Kim Gordon, Tammy Rae Carland, Tavi Gevinson, Carrie Brownstein, Adam Horvitz, and Kathleen Hannah herself. If you didn’t get the chance to see it in the theaters, it’s just hit Netflix instant streaming, so check it out!

(image Janis Vogel, Kathleen Hannah’s website)