Artist Hirokazu Kosaka’s much anticipated presentation of “Kalpa” on January 20 at the Getty Center was an experimental performance spectacular, featuring hundreds of spools of thread being pulled in the mouths of Butoh dancers, and a shining spotlight that illuminated their path down the Tram Arrival Plaza. Originally, the performance was also supposed to include [...]
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Tags: Central Garden, Outdoor, Pacific Standard Time, performance art
At 8:15 Sunday morning I found myself scurrying through a parking lot in Culver City to get on an old-fashioned-looking red and white bus. I took one of the last empty seats alongside dozens of other chipper volunteers as we listened to a group leader tell us about the day ahead of us. As part [...]
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Tags: contemporary art, festival, Lita Albuquerque, Pacific Standard Time, performance art, PST, PSTinLA, Spine of the Earth 2012
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Dancers, a World War II searchlight, and 400 spools of thread combined to turn the Getty Center’s Arrival Plaza into a performative installation last Friday night. Hirokazu Kosaka’s Kalpa was part of the Pacific Standard Time Public Art Festival, an 11-day celebration of performance art in public spaces. Because of the setting, it took hours [...]
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Tags: Hirokazu Kosaka, Kalpa, Pacific Standard Time, performance art, performances, PST, PSTinLA, video
January 19 is the official launch of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival. But it’s already unofficially begun, not only with pre-festival events last night at LAXART and tonight at the Getty Center, but also with what promises to be one of the landmark performances of the festival. This is the recreation [...]
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Tags: Bruno Louchouarn, contemporary art, festival, Pacific Standard Time, performance art, PST, PSTinLA, rape, Suzanne Lacy, women
From January 19 to 29, the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival will present more than 30 new public art commissions and re-invented works of performance art inspired by the amazing history of art in Southern California. As we move into the final days before the festival, artists are moving into their final [...]
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Tags: Eleanor Antin, festival, Judy Chicago, Lita Albuquerque, Pacific Standard Time, performance art, performances, PST, PSTinLA, Richard Jackson
Just in time for New Year’s Eve, the unruly figures in James Ensor’s massive painting Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889 have sneaked off the canvas and into bottles across Los Angeles. They’re the cast of characters in a new performance work by French artist Mathis Collins. Mathis was in L.A. last month to exhibit [...]
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Tags: art inspires art, bottle stoppers, Christ's Entry into Brussels, contemporary art, Getty Museum collection, James Ensor, Mathis Collins, New Year's Eve, performance art
The Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival opens on January 19. For 11 days, artists will be activating public spaces across the city with a variety of performances and public art. From Pomona to Santa Monica beach, these works will include everything from experimental music and conceptual art to dance, light shows, pyrotechnics, [...]
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Tags: festival, Judy Chicago, Machine Project, Pacific Standard Time, performance art, performances, PST, PSTinLA, Suzanne Lacy
George Herms is known for his poetic assemblages of discarded, disheveled materials. But back in the ’60s, he had preoccupations besides art: he was “tapped out”—that is, broke and ready to tap-dance on street corners for cash—and facing eviction. His solution? “Tap City Circus,” a carnivalesque fundraiser that was equal parts auction, picnic, and performance. [...]
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Tags: George Herms, Greetings from L.A., It Happened in L.A., Pacific Standard Time, performance art, PSTinLA, Tap City Circus
Talk about the exhibition Photography from the New China has tended to focus on how niche, different, and Chinese the images are compared to Western photographs. Yes, China has a distinctive history as well as a unique relationship to photography—while Europe reveled in the unveiling of Louis Daguerre’s photographic prototype in 1838, China was mired [...]
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Tags: China, Chinese art, performance art, Photography from the New China, Zhang Huan
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