LUNAR PERFORMANCE
1026 venice blvd, suite E
Monday, August 7 at 7:00 PM 10:00 PM
Ends Aug 28, 2017
ELEVATOR MONDAYS is pleased to announce LUNAR PERFORMANCE, a four-person show focusing on performance featuring Ali Kheradyar, Georgia Lassner, Lara Salmon and Kim Ye. For this exhibition, ELEVATOR MONDAYS will host a different site-specific performance each Monday evening throughout the month of August. On August 21, 2017 the Moon will pass between the Earth and the Sun. This event will be seen across North America as a total and partial solar eclipse, LUNAR PERFORMANCE is a celebration of this celestial happening. Contemporary western performance originated in the experimental “happenings” organized by John Cage and Allan Kaprow at Black Mountain College in the 1950s and later matured and flourished in the politically charged performances of artists such as Barbara T. Smith, Carolee Schneemann and Yoko Ono. This new form of art grew out of frustrations with the limits of object-based works and the social and political structures they represent. LUNAR PERFORMANCE features artists working against the failures of the objects, histories and politics of our time. 08/07/2017On Monday, August 7th, Lara Salmon will present Havana Intoxication, a durational performance featuring a forty gallon Mojito made with Havana Club Rum sourced via a recent direct flight from Havana to LAX, and mint taken from MOCA Los Angeles. Inspired by an illegal trip to the Caribbean socialist state in 2014, Salmon questions her role as an American traveling abroad and the history of Cuban-American cultural exchange throughout evolving international relations. 08/14/2017On Monday, August 14th, Kim Ye will present 7 minutes in hell. In this psychophotographic exchange, Ye will invite viewers to lock themselves into the confined 4 ft x 6 ft x 10 ft space that is ELEVATOR MONDAYS for private seven-minute sessions with the artist and her camera. Once inside, Ye will direct the viewer through a series of questions and prompts. This intimate experience will challenge the viewer’s understanding of personal space and personal boundaries. 08/21/2017On Monday, August 21st, Ali Kheradyar will present the wait of us, a series of intimate movement scores created by the artist. The scores will be generated in response to a text written by Kheradyar reflecting on the social responsibility of the individual. In this three hour performance, Kheradyar negotiates cycles of time, weight, balance, and burden in an elevator chamber under the indirect light of a solar eclipse. 08/28/2017On Monday, August 28th, Georgia Lassner will present the third iteration of “A Traveling Exhibition” an ongoing series of site-specific projects that Lassner began while an artist-in-residence at Bennington College in 2016. Revolving around varying forms of labor in relation to the production, distribution and exhibition of objects, “A Traveling Exhibition” evolves from one iteration to the next in response to the spatial and conceptual infrastructure of the site.