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NICO AT THE BROAD

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Christa Päffgen grew up to the sounds of Allied planes dropping bombs on her native Cologne. She was given the name Nico by photographer Herbert Tobias when she was 16 years old and modeling in Berlin.
She worked with Fellini (La Dolce vita), sang the title song for the film Strip-tease (1963), performed at the Blue Angel in Manhattan, met Brian Jones and Dylan, and became the “chanteuse” (Andy Warhol’s term) for The Velvet Underground.
The spirit of Nico will echo throughout the Broad Museum this weekend at WARHOL ICON, the first of this year’s “Summer Happenings.” The event will include musical performances by Jenny Hval, Kembra Pfahler, Rose McDowall, Tiny Vipers and Geneva Jacuzzi, and performance artist Vaginal Davis will interact with a rare screening of La Cicatrice intérieure/The Inner Scar (directed by Philippe Garrel, and starring Nico and Pierre Clementi.)

WARHOL ICON, Saturday, June 24, at 8:30 pm.

THE BROAD, 221 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

Nico, The Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable.

Nico, The Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable.

ALEXANDRO SEGADE’S FUTURE ST.

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Queer cop One: “If I died, you’d just replace me with another me.”

Queer cop Two: “I value your memories of me too much for that.” – from Replicant vs. Separatist, by Alexandro Segade

In REPLICANT VS. SEPARATIST, the police enforce strict same-sex marriage codes among a rebellious populace. The stories of these dissidents—mutant queers joined by a feminist underground—are fleshed out in OTHER BOYS AND OTHER STORIES, (aka BOY BAND AUDITION). A third piece, HOLO LIBRARY, examines the surveillance state.

Alexandro Segade brings the three parts of his speculative saga together in FUTURE ST., a performance work that, in the words of its author, “resists the genre it uses in order to reflect my own ambivalence at having my imagination disfigured by the spectacles [e.g. Blade Runner] I saw as a kid….These commercial properties owned by corporations repeatedly imagine a straight white future, which is in itself an act of violence. I want to think about something else.”

This week, the Tip of Her Tongue series at The Broad presents two performances of ALEXANDRO SEGADE’S FUTURE ST., with its author directing a New York–based cast that includes C. Bain, Lisa Corinne Davis, Nicholas Gotham, Jamel Tyre Mack, and BrianMcQueen.

FUTURE ST. features a live DJ set by Alexandro’s brother Mateo Segade—with music composed by Mateo and Scott Martin—and videos by Amy Ruhl, Daniel Leyva, and Robert Hickerson.

ALEXANDRO SEGADE’S FUTURE ST., Thursday and Friday, June 1 and 2, at 8:30 pm.

OCULUS HALL, THE BROAD, 221 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles

*thebroad.org/programs/tip-her-tongue-alexandro-segades-future-st

See Anna Gallagher-Ross’ Bard interview with Alexandro Segade:

IN PROGRESS: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALEXANDRO SEGADE OF FUTURE ST.

Future St., by Alexandro Segade Image credit: The Broad

(Top), Other Boys and Other Stories, at Vox Populi, in Philadelphia, 2011. (Middle and bottom), Future St., by Alexandro Segade (second from right).
Image credits: Alexandro Segade and The Broad

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

Image credit: Press notes, tonyconradmovie.com