In conjunction with the installation LAUREN HALSEY—WE STILL HERE, THERE, poet, performer, and librettist Douglas Kearney will read from his work.
Kearney is the author of Fear, Some (2006), Black Automaton (2009).
DOUGLAS KEARNEY, Sunday, March 25, at 3 pm.
MOCA GRAND AVENUE, 250 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.
Kearney reading “No Homo” at the 2012 Split This Rock poetry festival:
Above: Douglas Kearney.
Below: An example of Kearney’s “performative typography.”
This weekend at MOCA, the artist Martha Rosler will deliver the keynote address at FEMINISM AND THE STATE—ART, POLITICS, AND RESISTANCE, a symposium organized byRutgers University’s The Feminist Art Project (TFAP). “The TFAP symposium will open space for a discussion of art and art history that sheds light on historical precedents and paths for feminist resistance, with a special focus on methodologies pressing at the limits of art history.”*
This presentation is part of the annual College Art Association conference, where Charles Gaines will give the keynote address this evening (February 21, at 6 pm) at the Los Angeles Convention Center.**
FEMINISM AND THE STATE—ART, POLITICS, AND RESISTANCE, Saturday, February 24, from 10 am to 4:30 pm.
MARTHA ROSLER KEYNOTE ADDRESS is at 10:15 am.
MOCA GRAND AVENUE, 250 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.
* moca.org/feminism-and-the-state-art-politics-and-resistance
** conference.collegeart.org/CharlesGaines
Martha Rosler.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby is wrapping MOCA this year—the second artist to reimagine the museum’s Grand Avenue façade—and this weekend she will give a talk covering her projects and practice.
NJIDEKA AKUNYILI CROSBY, Sunday, February 4, at 3 pm.
MOCA GRAND AVENUE, 250 Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.
Njideka Akunyili, ‘The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born’ Might Not Hold True For Much Longer, 2013. Image credit: Nasher Museum of Art.
SCREEN: ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS at MOCA Grand—commemorating the twenty-eighth iteration of Day With(out) Art—begins with seven new video shorts by Mykki Blanco, Cheryl Dunye and Ellen Spiro, Reina Gossett, Thomas Allen Harris, Kia Labeija, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, and Brontez Purnell.
Following the screening, event curators Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett (for Visual AIDS) will present a performance by and conversation with Labeija. ONE Archives at the USC Libraries and the ONE Archives Foundation collaborated with MOCA on the evening.
READERS (2017), a new film by James Benning, is composed of four shots of Clara McHale-Ribot, Rachel Kushner, Dick Hebdige, and SimoneForti reading to themselves, matching the silence of the film’s audience.
This week at MOCA, Benning—introduced with a reading by Rachel Kushner—will present the world premiere of READERS.
JAMESBENNING—READERS, Thursday, October 12, at 7 pm.
MOCA GRAND AVENUE, 250 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.
moca.org/program/james-benning-readers-world-premiere
Clara McHale-Ribot in Readers. Image courtesy James Benning and Neugerriemschneider gallery.
