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LA RAZA

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Published in Los Angeles from 1967 to 1977, the bilingual newspaper LA RAZA provided a voice to the Chicano Rights Movement by engaging photographers not only as journalists but as artists and activists to capture the definitive moments, key players, and signs and symbols of Chicano activism.

The archive of nearly 25,000 images created by these photographers—now housed at the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA—provides the foundation for an exhibition at the Autry exploring photography’s role in articulating the social and political concerns of the Chicano Movement during a pivotal time in the art and history of the United States.

LA RAZA—part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA—examines both the photography and the alternative press of the Chicano Movement, positioning photography not only as an artistic medium but also as a powerful tool of social activism.*

 

LA RAZA, through February 10, 2019.

AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Griffith Park, Los Angeles.

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See: artnews.com/luis-c-garza-george-rodriguez-photojournalism

Above: La Raza, volume 1, number 1.

Below: Luis C. GarzaStudent and barrio youth lead protest march, La Marcha por La Justicia, Belvedere Park. January 31, 1971, 1971.

© Luis C.Garza. Image courtesy of the photographer and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.

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RAFA ESPARZA IN PERFORMANCE

This weekend—in a three-part PST: Live Art LA/LA performance—Rafa Esparza presents CUMBRE, his “meditation on bridges and bodies of waters as sites of connection and healing, as well as spaces of division and risk” as a means of investigating histories of immigration to and through downtown Los Angeles.*

 

RAFA ESPARZA—CUMBRE: LOOK AS FAR AS YOU CAN SEE IN EVERY DIRECTION, NORTH AND SOUTH, EAST AND WEST, Sunday, January 21, at 3 pm.

GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY AT MOCA, 152 North Central Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

*moca.org/program/rafa-esparza-cumbre

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Rafa Esparza in 2015. Image credit: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Photograph by Barbara Davidson.

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VARIEDADES AT THE MAYAN

VARIEDADES is a music, spoken word, theater, comedy, visual arts happening loosely based on Mexican vaudeville shows in Los Angeles, but the list of performers is anything but old-fashioned: Alice Bag, Nao Bustamante with Dynasty Handbag and Karen Tongson, La Chica Boom, DJ Lengua, Rafa Esparza, Liz Miller Kovacs, Selene Luna, Cheech and Natasha Marin, Mickey Negron, and Dorian Wood.

This Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA show is hosted by performers Rubén Martínez and Raquel Gutiérrez, and produced and curated by Marcus Kuiland-Nazario.

 

VARIEDADES, Thursday, January 18, at 9 pm.

MAYAN THEATER, 1038 South Hill Street, downtown Los Angeles.

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Image credit: Redcat, and Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, The Getty.

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LIGIA LEWIS AT REDCAT

In MINOR MATTER—part two of her Blue, Red, and White trilogy that began with Sorrow Swag—dancer-choreographer Ligia Lewis and her dancers Jonathan Gonzalez and Tiran Willemse interrogate the color red as a medium between love and rage. 

“[With this piece] I knew that I was working specifically with a very strong relationship to space, so I wanted to animate the periphery as much as possible. I knew that I was trying to interrogate a certain type of body and a certain type of embodiment. I was also trying to play with duration, or at least with creating a relationship to time that had an articulation of memory, and the present, and a sort of posturing towards the future… happening simultaneously…

“I have a very contentious relationship with abstraction, at least in early notions of abstraction being ‘pure’ or unadulterated form, so I go in knowing that I’m not entirely going to get that, or maybe not entirely interested in it, but it’s an interesting place to start for me…

“I was thinking about marks and traces in space, which is me thinking through what it means to be a marked body on stage. How do you leave a mark or a trace?” — Ligia Lewis interview with Emily Gastineau

Returning to L.A. after a preview at Human Resources—see Evan Moffitt’s review—MINOR MATTER is presented as part of this month’s Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA.

 

LIGIA LEWIS—MINOR MATTER

Friday and Saturday, January 12 and 13, at 8 pm.

Sunday, January 14, at 6 pm.

Redcat, 631 West 2nd Street, downtown Los Angeles.

See Hannah Black on Lewis.

See Martha Kirszenbaum, interview with Ligia Lewis, Kaleidoscope 29 (Spring 2017).

Above: Kaleidoscope 29 (Spring 2017), Ligia Lewis cover.

Below: Ligia Lewisminor matter. Photographs by Martha Glenn.

ASTRID HADAD AT THE MAYAN

Astrid Hadad—performance art diva and a mainstay at the old El Hábito in Mexico City—brings her extravagant brand of feminism to the Mayan Theater this week with a show that combines activism, satire, and “Heavy Nopal” cabaret.*

The evening is a presentation of the Redcat initiative Live Art: LA/LA, a Pacific Standard Time program.

 

ASTRID HADAD—I AM MADE IN MEXICO, Thursday, January 11, at 9 pm.

MAYAN THEATER, 1038 South Hill Street, downtown Los Angeles.

redcat.org/astridhadad

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*Named for the cactus juice used to make tequila, “Heavy Nopal” combines ranchera, bolero, rumba, and rock.

Astrid Hadad. Photograph by Rodrigo Vasquez.

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