LACA

Five Texts Regarding Pain

Five readers present work that addresses emotional/physical pain and sickness, the ways in which the experience of that is documented, and the role of writing (loosely defined) in presenting/performing/interpreting trauma in both poetic and more casual forms. LACA will provide an archival space for their formally disparate texts and approaches. 

Benjamin Lord: Chaos and Connoisseurship. Nov 12, 8pm at LACA

Los Angeles Contemporary Archive is pleased to host Chaos and Connoisseurship, a lecture/performance by artist Benjamin Lord. Lord will discuss Lifey, a computer program he recently created. The program is a player for the Game of Life, an algorithm created by John Conway in 1970, which has gone on to become the most programmed game in the history of computing. In Conway’s system, simple and intuitive rules generate highly complex and unpredictable visual 

Lionel Soukaz & Guy Hocquenghem, Race d’Ep! (The Homosexual Century), 16mm on DV, 95 min., 1979

The infamous, nearly banned 1979 pornographic experimental documentary, "Race d’Ep!" (which literally translates to "Breed of Faggots," previously released in English as "The Homosexual Century") was made by the “father of queer theory,” Guy Hocquenghem, in collaboration with radical queer filmmaker and provocateur Lionel Soukaz. "Race d’Ep!" traces the history of modern homosexuality through the twentieth century, from early sexology and the nudes of Baron 

LACA and LAAC invite you to a screening of Stanley Kubrick's Boxes, a 2008 documentary by Jon Ronson featuring Kubrick's vast personal collection of memorabilia related to his feature films.

Drinks and snacks will be for sale, proceeds benefit LAAC.

Image credit: Stanley Kubrick Archives