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CONVERSION THERAPY — DIRTY LOOKS AT THE L.A. ART BOOK FAIR

Join Rick Castro, Mariah Garnett, Nguyen Tan Hoang, William E. Jones, and Brontez Purnell at the L.A. Art Book Fair for the Dirty Looks event CONVERSION THERAPY.

The panelists will discuss “the language of filmmaking and how it relates to underground publishing.”*

CONVERSION THERAPY*

Friday, April 12, at 6 pm.

Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

152 North Central Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

From top: William E. Jones, The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography, 1998, still, courtesy the artist and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles; Brontez Purnell, courtesy the artist; Nguyen Tan Hoang, courtesy the author; Mariah Garnett, Encounters I May or May Not Have Had with Peter Berlin, 2012, still, courtesy the artist; Tony Ward in Hustler White (1996), written and directed by Bruce LaBruce and Rick Castro, courtesy the artists.

QUEERCORE AT REDCAT

John Waters, Kim Gordon, Kathleen Hanna, Bruce La Bruce, Dennis Cooper, Genesis P-Orridge, Peaches, Patty Schemel, Justin Vivian Bond, Silas Howard, Rick Castro, and many others give on-camera interviews in QUEERCORE: HOW TO PUNK A REVOLUTION, Yony Leyser’s new documentary screening this weekend at REDCAT. Archive footage features Beth Ditto, Hole, Bikini Kill, Gossip, Pansy Division, and Tribe 8.

This screening is presented by Outfest, and supported by the Goethe-Institut.

QUEERCORE: HOW TO PUNK A REVOLUTION , Saturday, July 15, at 5 pm.

REDCAT, Disney Hall, Music Center, downtown Los Angeles.

outfest.org

goethe.de/ins/us/en/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21000097

Bikini Kill. Image credit: i-D-Vice.

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