Unless otherwise noted, all events will take place at LACE
6522 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
UPCOMING EVENTS
3 March 2011, 7-10 PM
Explanation as Composition Audio Opening
Join Les Figues and LACE for the official opening of the Explanation as Composition audio tours. These six narrative experiences of the LACE exhibition space were initiated during a collaborative social writing event which included fifteen writers: Amanda Ackerman, Harold Abramowitz, Kate Durbin, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Teresa Carmody, Aimee Bender, Allison Carter, Mark Z. Danielewski, Carribean Fragoza, Veronica Gonzalez, Janice Lee, Harryette Mullen, Janet Sarbanes, Anna Joy Springer, and Stephen Van Dyck.
Gallery visitors can choose which narrative they will experience: story, geography, ekphrasis, provenance, nature, or confession.
Explanation as Composition is curated by U.N.F.O. (Unauthorized Narrative Freedom Organization), an unofficial and temporary coalition of five writers, including Amanda Ackerman, Harold Abramowitz, Kate Durbin, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum and Teresa Carmody.
Special thanks to Aaron Drake for making these audio tours possible.
PAST EVENTS
30 January 2011, 1-4 PM
Explanation as Composition
Come see live writers writing live! Explanation as Composition, an experiment in narrative, begins with a collaborative social writing event in which fifteen writers will use materials in and around LACE to create texts for audio tours of the LACE exhibition space.
Explanation as Composition is a project by U.N.F.O. (Unauthorized Narrative Freedom Organization), an unofficial and temporary coalition of five writers, including Amanda Ackerman, Harold Abramowitz, Kate Durbin, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum and Teresa Carmody.
Event writer collaborators: Aimee Bender, Allison Carter, Mark Z. Danielewski, Carribean Fragoza, Veronica Gonzalez, Janice Lee, Harryette Mullen, Janet Sarbanes, Anna Joy Springer and Stephen Van Dyck.
13 October 2010, 8-10 PM
Opening Reception: LACE Fall Exhibitions
Join us as we kick off our fall cycle with Bathroom Reading, a new project by Craig Dworkin, as well as the opening of The Elysian Park Museum of Art and Karen Lofgren: Signs Point to Yes.
19 September 2010, 4-6 PM
Not Content Performance 8
The final group performance of the summer cycle! Marco Huerta performing from SPAM, Sawako Nakayasu from INSECT COUNTRY C, and Christine Wertheim with NI UNA MAS.
17 September 2010, 1:30 PM
Artist/Writer Talk with Marco Antonio Huerta
Please join us for Marco Huerta’s talk about SPAM.
12 September 2010, 3-5:30 PM
Improvisational Insect Orchestra, with Juliana Snapper!
Dust off your instruments and come participate in writer/artist Sawako Nakayasu’s Improvisational Insect Orchestra performance. A selection of musicians will improvise the score to a live insect silhouette performance, after which audience members are invited to bring their own instrument to accompany the insect of their choice in accordance with its performance. Each orchestra will perform for 30 minutes before switching instruments, insects, and orchestral players.
10 September 2010, 1:30 PM
Artist/Writer Talk with Sawako Nakayasu
Please join us for Sawako Nakayasu’s talk about Insect Country C.
25 August 2010, 11:00 AM
Artist/Writer Talk with Johanna Drucker
Johanna Drucker discussed I AM WORDLE
19 August 2010, 6-8 PM
Not Content (group) Performance
Join Les Figues Press and LACE for a performance by Not Content “writers-in-residence” Johanna Drucker, Yedda Morrison and Mathew Timmons.
Johanna Drucker : I Am Wordle
Yedda Morrison : Darkness, chapter 1
Mathew Timmons : Credit
18 + 19 August 2010, 12-5 PM
Public installation of I Am Wordle by Johanna Drucker.
13-19 AUGUST 2010, Times Vary
Darkness, Erasures
Rewrite Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Come into LACE during the week of August 13- 21 and collaborate in the articulation of this iconic landscape by telling the writer what words to erase.
Friday, 8/13, 2-3 p.m. | Honey Crawford
Saturday, 8/14, 4-5 p.m. | Vanessa Place
Sunday, 8/15, 3-4 p.m. | Colin Dickey
Wednesday, 8/18, 2-3 p.m. | Honey Crawford
Thursday, 8/19, 6-8 p.m. | Yedda Morrison (also performing: Johanna Drucker and Mathew Timmons)
Friday, 8/20, 2:30 p.m. | artist/writer talk with Yedda Morrison
Saturday, 8/21, time TBD | Christine Wertheim
8 August 2010, 2 & 4 PM
Credit Launch
In late spring 2007 as an irrational exuberance and promise of financial fortune hung in the air, mailboxes were filled with generous and gracefully worded offers of credit. Just over two years later, in midsummer 2009, the shape of the financial environment changed radically and mailboxes still filled up with statements of credit. Something had to change, offer turned to obligation.
Based on Mathew Timmons’ book of the same name, CREDIT is a highly revealing and emotional work chronicling a personal tale of credit.
2:00 Artist/writer talk with Mathew Timmons
4:00 Kick-off event, begin transcription of book, plus other surprise performances!
21 JULY–24 JULY 2010, VARIED TIMES
Unnatural Acts: Installation Events & Performances:
Taking its name from the historic collaborative writing marathons led by Bernadette Mayer and others in NYC during 1972-73, Unnatural Acts will explore the themes of hunger, war, and desire through public acts of collaboration.
21 July 5-5:30pm: Performance of Hunger Texts Read in the Dark by Amina Cain
22 July 5-6pm: Street Performance of 4000 Words 4000 Dead by Jennifer Karmin
23 July noon-8pm: Unnatural Acts 8 hours of collaborative writing. Collaborators include: Harold Abramowitz, Tisa Bryant, Amina Cain, Teresa Carmody, Saehee Cho, K. Lorraine Graham, Jennifer Karmin, Laida Lertxundi, India Radfar, and Mark Wallace.
24 July 2-3pm: Artists’ Talk. 4-6pm: Collaborative Reading. Readers include: Harold Abramowitz, Tisa Bryant, Amina Cain, Teresa Carmody, K. Lorraine Graham, Jennifer Karmin, Laida Lertxundi, India Radfar, and Mark Wallace.
14 JULY 2010, WEDNESDAY
The Principle of North Korean Charity
2:00 pm: Artist/writer talk with Maxi Kim
4:00 pm: Performance with Maxi Kim and Robbie Hansen, plus short video by Gina Clark
11 JULY 2010, SUNDAY, 4-6 PM
Not Content Performance 2: Readings by writers-in-residence Douglas Kearney and Vanessa Place and a Feral-Cat Attack as conceived by Divya Victor.
During the course of his residency, Kearney periodically recorded “covers” of the ever-altering text, COVERAGE. Kearney will use these recordings in a new performance before LACE performs its own cover up of the text.
Vanessa Place will unread STATEMENT OF FACT.
Divya Victor’s HELLOCAST will be the site of a FERAL-CAT ATTACK, with performers Amina Cain, Danielle Adair, Jemima Wyman, Kate Durbin, Mathew Timmons, Matias Viegener, and Teresa Carmody.
21 June 2010, 8-10 PM
Summer Solstice Kick-off, featuring work and performances by the first three writers-in-residence Douglas Kearney, Vanessa Place, and Divya Victor, as well as ft bibles, John Kilduff, and Portable City Projects.