Two easy pieces (Los Angeles) – curated by Vivian Ziherl
EXHIBITION DATES: 30 JULY – 20 AUGUST 2010
OPENING: FRIDAY 30 JULY 6pm
CURATOR’S TALK: SATURDAY 7 AUGUST 2.30pm
Artists: CamLab and Susan Mogul
Vivian Ziherl and Debra Porch, Curator’s Talks at LEVEL
SCREENING: SATURDAY 7 AUGUST
CamLab Whip What Stat, 2009. Image courtesy the artists.
CamLab is a collaboration between LA-based artists Jemima Wyman and Anna Mayer. Whip What Stat is a performance for video that took place on a temporary stage in the woods in 2009. The performers begin by tying their hair together, then various interactions ensue, as they separate and take turns whipping each other with their hair.
About the exhibition
Two easy pieces (Los Angeles) brings together two works created almost four decades apart by women artists working in Los Angeles. Both wall-based and both employing seriality, the pieces resonate in their explorations of subjectivization and intersubjectivity, their depiction of relational experience, their mobilization of the body, and their dilation of an area spanning the aesthetic, the theraputic and the political.
The works were separately encountered during a brief tour of the active, uninhibited and critical performance/expanded-art scene of Los Angeles in late 2009. The ‘easy’ of the exhibition’s title refers to the ease of this curatorial conceit, as well as to the ease with which the works lend themselves to transportation and exhibition in a city geographically distant from their home.
- Two easy pieces (Los Angeles) August 2010. Photo: Chris Handran.
- CamLab To Do To 2009. Image courtesy the artists. Photo: Chris Handran.
- Susan Mogul Body Sculpture 1971/ 2010. Image courtesy the artist and Tom Jancar Gallery LA. Photo: Chris Handran.
- Acknowledgements
- Vivian Ziherl would like to thank Siobhan Thakur and Liz Ahern for their generous support.
