Anatomy of Subversion II

Press Release

ANATOMY OF SUBVERSION

APRIL 14, 2018 | 2-6 PM

If transgression is all over the place, 'subversion' has gone missing from today's vocabulary. In this continued series of conversations with truly radical and subversive figures, from art to poetry, academia, music and politics, we will aim to expand the meaning subversion can create for itself today - within the world as it goes.

Catherine Malabou
Corazón del Sol
Howard Fried
Noura Wedell
Johanna Went
Kyle Rand
Vanessa Beecroft

 
The event is FREE and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. 
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Donatien Grau holds doctoral degree from Sorbonne University (comparative literature), the University of Oxford (philosophy), and the École pratique des hautes études (philology). He served for four years as advisor to Azzedine Alaïa for the couturier's non-profit exhibition space, the Galerie; he recently joined the Musée d'Orsay as Head of Contemporary, and is conceiving The Getty Villa's reopening exhibition, Plato in LA.

Catherine Malabou is a Professor of philosophy at Kingston University UK and at UCI. Her last publications include Before Tomorrow, Epigenesis and Rationality (polity 2016), and Metamorphoses of Intelligence (Columbia University Press forthcoming 2019).
 
Corazón del Sol is an artist based in Los Angeles. Her practice is rooted in collective exploration of questions through conversation, movement, video, sculpture, etc.. Lately she is most interested in connectivity's ability to dislodge addiction to power that traumas engender. 
 
Howard Fried is an American conceptual artist who became known in the 1970s for his pioneering work in video art, performance art and installation art. Fried is associated with the first generation of conceptual artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. His early works addressed such issues as decision making, conflict situations, control, predictability, learning, and cognitive processes.
 
Noura Wedell is a writer, scholar, translator, and editor for Semiotext(e), currently researching issues in embodiment, politics and immanence. She had edited a book on writing in the work of Robert Morris (Investigations: the Expanded Field of Writing in the Works of Robert Morris), and published a book of poetry, Odd Directions. Among her many translated books are theoretical texts (by François Cusset, Jean-Louis Schefer, Toni Negri, Guy Hocquenguem ...) and fictional ones (Pierre Guyotat). She recently showed a collaborative video Sweat, made with painter Rachelle Sawatsky, at the Franz Kaka Gallery in Toronto. She is a lecturer in Critical Studies at the Roski School of Art and Design at USC, Los Angeles and a kundalini instructor.
 
Johanna Went is an American performance artist whose career began in Punk Rock clubs in Los Angeles starting in the late 1970s. Collaborating with Mark Wheaton since 1980, Went’s seminal performances can be characterized as visceral and raw, often containing elaborate costumes, improvisational elements, and artificial blood. Went has performed at music venues and art spaces in the U.S. and Europe. Her work has been reviewed in X-TRA, Slash, Los Angeles Times, and was featured in the Industrial Culture issue of ReSearch magazine. In addition to performance work, she has appeared in films, done vocal recordings, and has exhibited her artwork.
 
Kyle Rand is interested in the act of wandering, a rhizome, an altered state of being, etc., Outside of categorization, outside of materiality, wanting to be invisible. This was not written by Kyle but just an acquaintance.
 
Vanessa Beecroft is an Italian contemporary artist living in Los Angeles. Her work is a complex fusion of conceptual issues and aesthetic concerns, focusing on large-scale performance art, usually involving live female models (often nude). Her performances are existential encounters between models and audience, their shame and their expectations. Beecroft’s work is deceptively simple in its execution, provoking questions around identity politics and voyeurism in the complex relationship between viewer, model and context. Beecroft's performances have taken place at many notable art institutions such as the 52nd Venice Biennale; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the São Paulo Biennial, Brazil; and at Terminal 5 of JFK Airport New York in 2004, a performance banned by the authorities.