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Thursday, September 13 at MOCA Grand Avenue
Tricky Poses and Taxing Conditions: Performance and Media
Tricky Poses and Taxing Conditions: Performance and Media
213/621-1745 or education@moca.org
7pm

The advent of portable video equipment enabled artists to document and distribute performance events captured in real time. Some artists went further to create performance for media, replicating performances from past performances and confronting the challenging space created by bodies. This screening includes films by Bas Jan Ader, Candace Compton, Sam Erenberg, Morgan Fisher, Cynthia Maughan, Bruce Nauman, Paul McCarthy, Susan Mogul, Richard Newton, Allan Sekula, and Grahame Weinbren that raise questions about the nature and purpose of performance, and also playfully look at how the camera, filmmaker, and projectionist also perform their roles.

In person: Sam Erenberg and Richard Newton
$12 general admission
FREE for MOCA and Los Angeles Filmforum members
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Thursday, September 13 at MOCA Grand Avenue
The Panza Collection and Selections from Major Gifts of Beatrice and Philip Gersh, Rita and Taft Schreiber, and Marcia Simon Weisman
Aug 20, 2012-Feb 10, 2013

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, presents The Panza Collection and Selections from Major Gifts of Beatrice and Philip Gersh, Rita and Taft Schreiber, and Marcia Simon Weisman, now on view through January 14, 2013 at MOCA Grand Avenue. The exhibition celebrates the core of the museum's internationally renowned collection, which evolved as a result of the acquisition of The Panza Collection in 1984, considered at the time as one of the world's most important acquisitions of contemporary art and a turning point in the museum's early history. This exhibition also marks the first time since 2000 that almost the entire Panza Collection has been presented at MOCA. Installed by MOCA Senior Curator Alma Ruiz, The Panza Collection and Selections from Major Gifts of Beatrice and Philip Gersh, Rita and Taft Schreiber, and Marcia Simon Weisman features 92 works, comprising paintings, sculptures, and works on paper that serve both as evidence of the intellectual and emotional challenge that is involved in collecting and as a testament to exemplary civic patronage and its enduring legacy in the cultural growth of Los Angeles.

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Thursday, September 13 at MOCA Pacific Design Center
AMANDA ROSS-HO: TEENY TINY WOMAN
AMANDA ROSS-HO: TEENY TINY WOMAN
Jun 23, 2012-Oct 7, 2012

This new installation by Amanda Ross-Ho encompasses architectural elements, large-scale paintings, fabricated objects, textiles, and photographs created specifically for the MOCA Pacific Design Center. AMANDA ROSS-HO: TEENY TINY WOMAN evolves her continued interest in translation, scale, and the authored collapse of authentic gesture and performance. Her work interrogates intimate territories of experience, toggling between the context of production and the context of reception, to create an infinite loop of meaning.

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