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Eleanor Antin as Eleanora Antinova in “Before the Revolution,” 1979 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Image courtesy the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
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Lita Albuquerque, “Spine of the Earth 2012,” 2012, Baldwin HIlls Scenic Overlook, Culver City
Photo: Michael Light
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Robert Wilhite, “Chinese Cocktail,” 2012, Barnsdall Theater. Organized by X-TRA.
Photo: Don Lewis
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Artists’ Tower of Protest, 1966
Artists' Tower of Protest, 1966, designed by Mark di Suvero. The Getty Research Institute, 2005.M.11. Photo by Charles Brittin
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Myths of Rape , by Leslie Labowitz-Starus, Performed for Three Weeks in May, Suzanne Lacy, 1977
Performed for Lacy's series Three Weeks in May. Photo: Suzanne Lacy
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Members of the Los Angeles Free Music Society testing Pyramid Headphones, 1976
Photography © 1976 Fredrik Nilsen, All Rights Reserved
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Installing O’ Speak, Speak by artists Dale Davis, Charles Dickson, Nate Ferrantes, John Outterbridge, and Elliott Pinkney, 1971, Elliott Pinkney
Color photograph © Elliott Pinkney
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Judy Chicago, “A Butterfly for Pomona,” 1/21/12, Merritt Field, Pomona College
Photo: Donald Woodman
About
The history of postwar art in Los Angeles is punctuated by dramatic examples of public artworks, large-scale spectacles, expansive performances, and small-scale interventions in the public sphere. The Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival celebrated this history through a contemporary lens, with a series of adaptations, re-inventions, and commissions inspired by the installation and performance artists working in Los Angeles between 1945 and 1980.
Throughout the 11-day festival, a group of new public artworks were on view throughout the city. In addition, new performances premiered each day, including outdoor visual spectacles, experimental theater and sound art, social and political interventions, and media art. A nightly after-party, Black Box, provided a space for socializing, and included surprise performances each evening.
The festival was presented as part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-80, an unprecedented collaboration of cultural institutions across Southern California coming together to celebrate the birth of the L.A. art scene. As the festival moved throughout the city, visitors were also surrounded by dozens of groundbreaking exhibitions about the history of art in Southern California.