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REMOTE CASTRATION

How the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements “resonate with a trajectory of feminist thought in contemporary art” is reflected in REMOTE CASTRATION, the new group show at LAXART curated by Catherine Taft.

Artists include John Altoon, Nancy Buchanan, Kathryn Garcia, Daniel T Gaitor-Lomack, Jenny Holzer, Nova Jiang, Paul McCarthy, Jahni Moore, Sue Williams, Benjamin Weissman.

REMOTE CASTRATION, through September 15.

LAXART, 7000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood.

* laxart.org/remote-castration

The graffiti that inspired the title of the show.

ADAM LINDER AT LAXART

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Adam Linder brings his performative lecture, WORKING / TALKING / SERVING / SWERVING—A BODIED DISCUSSION OF ADAM LINDER’S CHOREOGRAPHIC SERVICES 1 – 5 & A FOOTNOTE, to Laxart this week.

“One of modern art’s most salient characteristics is its ability to question itself. Given that this capacity for self-reflection was brokered over abstraction, does it also apply to dance?”*

ADAM LINDER—WORKING / TALKING / SERVING / SWERVING*

Friday, July 6, at 6 pm.

Laxart, 7000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood.

Adam Linder. Courtesy the artist.

BASHIR DAVIID NAIM’S PERSON

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Bashir Daviid Naim hosts the latest edition of PERSON, a club night and performance series co-founded by the artist.

Dia Dear, Davia Spain, and Elliot Reed will perform, along with DJs Bbyshamu, Baexploitation, and Ramdasha.

PERSON, Tuesday, July 3, 9:30 pm.

LAXART, 7000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood.

* laxart.org/person-with-bashir-daviid-naim

Image credit: Bashir Daviid Naim Twitter.

HILTON ALS AT LAXART

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“Hilton Als will present a new, unpublished text that is part of his ongoing body of work investigating various narratives of race and gender. The reading will be followed by a conversation between Als and poet Robin Coste Lewis,” an essayist and the Poet Laureate of the City of Los Angeles.*

(A conversation with Als will be published later this year in the forthcoming print issue of PARIS LA.)

HILTON ALS, Friday, June 29, at 7:30 pm.

LAXART, 7000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles.

* laxart.org/events/hilton-als

See Hilton Als recent interview with Lisa Cohen in The Paris Review:

theparisreview.org/hilton-als-the-art-of-the-essay

Above: Hilton Als at The Artists Institute in 2016.

Below: Als. Image coutesy of the Steven Barclay Agency.

HAMZA WALKER IN CONVERSATION

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Join LAXART director Hamza Walker, OnrampArts founder Joy Silverman, and LAICA founder Bob Smith for a conversation about the changing cultural and socio-political landscape undergirding the role of alternative spaces over the past forty years.

“Since their flourishing in the mid 1970s, alternative art spaces have had an illustrious history—from the championing of new media and performance, which were outside the purview of commercial galleries, to the role they played in identifying and supporting artists that defined the 1980s, to their reconceptualization by a new generation of artists and curators in the early part of the 21st century.”*

ALTERNATIVE SPACES—THAT WAS THEN/THIS IS NOW, Saturday, June 23, at 2 pm.

LAXART, 7000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood.

* laxart.org/alternative-spaces-that-was-then-this-is-now

Catherine Opie, Hamza, 2013. © Catherine Opie. Image courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.