For Immediate Release:
January 18, 2016
ART LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY PRESENTS EXPANDED PUBLIC PROGRAMS
AND SECOND ISSUE OF THE ART LOS ANGELES READER
CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF CURATED BY MARC LEBLANC
FEATURING KENNETH ANGER, NEVILLE WAKEFIELD, KATHRYN ANDREWS
JANUARY 28–31, 2016, THE BARKER HANGAR, SANTA MONICA
ACCESS TO EVENTS INCLUDED IN FAIR ADMISSION
LOS ANGELES—Art Los Angeles Contemporary is pleased to announce Conversations With Myself, a
series of talks, lectures, and performances curated for the fair’s upcoming seventh edition. Participants
include filmmaker Kenneth Anger, curators Rita Gonzalez and Neville Wakefield, and artist Kathryn
Andrews.
“Overdubbed, dissonant, interior—Conversations With Myself—a romance thriller, a noir, Bill Evans’
album. Simply, a zoetrope of windows opening onto a city and its art: vast, hidden, consumed by
change,” writes Marc LeBlanc, Curator of Events & Programming for Art Los Angeles Contemporary.
“Anecdotally driven, developed by artists and writers living in Los Angeles, the program configures the
city as picaresque, as a fibrous warren of narratives that together present the city’s art community as one
eschewing being about any one thing, but process itself.”
On the fair’s opening night, artist Alison O’Daniel presents Centennial Marching Band Forwards and
Backwards, her collaboration with the marching band from Centennial High School, Compton. The band
will perform a song that is constructed and deconstructed in real time, based on marching formations,
speeds, and the space constraints of Barker Hangar. The performance is part of O’Daniel’s ongoing
project The Tuba Thieves, a response to a rash of thefts from Los Angeles-area high schools, and is
organized by not-for-profit art space JOAN.
On Friday, January 29, Neville Wakefield, artistic director of the upcoming Desert X, leads a
conversation about the California desert and how it relates to artistic practice, site-specific work and the
upcoming Desert Exhibition of Art. Jonathan Griffin, contributing editor for Frieze, speaks with artists
Carter Mull, Kathryn Andrews, and Rita Gonzalez, curator at Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
about the perception of Los Angeles abroad, particularly in Europe and Asia, in the talk LA Exported.
Travis Diehl, editor of arts journal Prism of Reality, leads a discussion of artist-run spaces with Brian
Getnick of PAM, Jon Pylypchuk of Grice Bench, and Adam D. Miller and Devin Oder of The Pit in
Built To Last: Artist-Run LA.
On Saturday, January 30, artists Charlie White and Amanda Ross-Ho discuss how the internet and
social media have negatively affected art-making in Unfriend Me. Kenneth Anger, the actor, author, and
legendary experimental filmmaker, shares stories from his life’s work in Los Angeles, with special regard
to how Thelema, the religion developed by Aleister Crowley, has shaped his oeuvre.
What does truth have to do with art? On Sunday, January 31, artist A.L. Steiner, writer Kevin McGarry
(Artforum, Art Agenda, T: The New York Times Style Magazine), and Diehl discuss how speaking truth
risks reprisal from the cultural, financial, and social institutions that make their work possible, in a
conversation titled Love and Truth. Finally, Andrew Norman Wilson, artist and writer based in New
York, appears on stage for a set of Lie Down Comedy.
Conversations With Myself is curated by Marc LeBlanc, Curator of Events & Programming for Art Los
Angeles Contemporary, and held daily in the ALAC Theatre. Access to all events is included in fair
admission. For more information including the full schedule of public programs visit
artlosangelesfair.com/events.
Art Los Angeles Reader
The fair also marks the release of the Art Los Angeles Reader, the platform for established and emerging
voices in art writing. The free art newspaper engages critically with art on-site and beyond, placing rigor
and criticism alongside humor and celebration.
The forthcoming second issue, themed around the architectures of Southern California, includes a new
work designed specially for newsprint by artists Math Bass and Lauren Davis Fisher; reflections on the
late Noah Davis’s Imitation of Wealth by Karon Davis, co-founder of The Underground Museum, and
Helen Molesworth, chief curator at MOCA; and Christie’s Captures, an augmented reality project
presented by Los Angeles gallery Smart Objects.
Additionally the issue features contributions from the city’s top arts writers. Kate Wolf (Los Angeles
Review of Books) examines the L.A. River, a site revitalized by performance art; Sasha Archibald
(Cabinet) discusses the hidden oil in Los Angeles; Catherine Wagley (LA Weekly) on a new mural by
Katherine Bernhardt; Evan Moffitt (Frieze) interviews artist Amy Yao; Jonathan Griffin (Frieze)
contributes a history of spray painting; Travis Diehl (Prism of Reality) writes on Jaya Howey and
Rebecca Morris; and Forrest Nash of Contemporary Art Daily presents the archives of artist Gaylen
Gerber.
Art Los Angeles Reader is published by Fair Grounds Associates on the occasion of Art Los Angeles
Contemporary and is edited by Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal. For more information visit artlosangelesfair.com.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Thursday, January 28
7pm: Centennial Marching Band Forwards and Backwards
Alison O’Daniel, artist; Husky Marching Alliance, Centennial High School, Compton
Friday, January 29
11am: Desert X
Moderator: Neville Wakefield, artistic director of Desert X
1pm: LA Exported
Carter Mull, artist; Kathryn Andrews, artist; Rita Gonzalez, curator at LACMA
Moderator: Jonathan Griffin, contributing editor for Frieze
3:30pm: Built To Last: Artist-Run LA
Jon Pylypchuk, artist, co-founder of Grice Bench; Brian Getnick, artist, director of PAM Residencies;
Adam D. Miller and Devon Oder, artists, co-founders of The Pit
Moderator: Travis Diehl, editor of Prism of Reality
Saturday, January 30
1pm: Unfriend Me
Charlie White, artist; Amanda Ross-Ho, artist
3:30pm: Kenneth Anger: Lucifer Brothers
Kenneth Anger, filmmaker
Sunday, January 31
1pm: Love and Truth
A.L. Steiner, artist; Kevin McGarry, writer; Andrew Norman Wilson, artist
Moderator: Travis Diehl, editor of Prism of Reality
3:30pm: Lie Down Comedy
Andrew Norman Wilson, artist
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IMAGE CREDIT: ALAC Theatre. Photo by Gina Clyne, courtesy of Art Los Angeles Contemporary.