Installing O’ Speak, Speak by artists Dale Davis, Charles Dickson, Nate Ferrantes, John Outterbridge, and Elliott Pinkney, 1971, Elliott Pinkney

Color photograph © Elliott Pinkney
Members of X: Billy Zoom, John Doe, Exene, and Don Bonebrake

Image courtesy Slash Records. Photo credit: Neil Zlozower
Ball of Artists

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Today's Events

10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

Civic Virtue: Watts Towers Here and Now

This celebration of the Watts cultural community includes new public sculpture, celebratory readings, and musical performances. At Watts Towers Arts Center. Learn more.

11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.

Portable Parks IV: Past, Present, Future = A.L.L., by Bonnie Ora Sherk in collaboration with Consuming Nature by the Otis College Graduate Public Practice Program

A re-imagination of Bonnie Sherk's 1970s Portable Parks installations, realized in collaboration with Graduate Public Practice MFA Students from Otis College of Art and Design. At Santa Monica Place. Learn more.

7:30 p.m.

X, with special guests The Dead Kennedys and The Avengers

X performs, with special guests The Dead Kennedys and The Avengers. At the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Learn more.

8:00 p.m.

Kaleidoscope of Pacific Standard Time

Kaleidoscope of Pacific Standard Time (K-PST) is an Internet arts channel (k-pst.org) broadcast in connection with the performance series, RE:COMPOSITION, held on January 27 & 28 at SCI-Arc, which presents studies on the constitution, disposition, duration, and transmission of art ideas articulated in and beyond California. Learn more.

8:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m.

Black Box, by Liz Glynn

Join us each night of the festival to meet, drink, and talk. Each night features different surprise performances. Located in Hollywood. Learn more.

Evening

Ball of Artists

The Ball of Artists is the spectacular closing evening for the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival. Learn more.

Los Angeles Police Rape Map, by Suzanne Lacy

In this installation at the L.A. Police Department, Suzanne Lacy and young women will mark a map of Los Angeles with the previous day’s police reports. Learn more.
East of No-West, by Willie Herrón

Herrón’s new mural is his homage to his years of participation in the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco. Located near Cal State Los Angeles. Learn more.
Artists’ Tower of Protest, by Mark di Suvero

The Artists' Tower of Protest is a re-staging of Mark di Suvero's 1966 monumental work in protest of the Vietnam War. Located in West Hollywood. Learn more.
O Speak, Speak 2

A new version of the 1970 landmark public work O Speak, Speak rises in Watts. At the Watts Towers Arts Center. Learn more.

Kaleidoscope of Pacific Standard Time

Kaleidoscope of Pacific Standard Time (K-PST) is an Internet arts channel (k-pst.org) broadcast in connection with the performance series, RE:COMPOSITION, held on January 27 & 28 at SCI-Arc, which presents studies on the constitution, disposition, duration, and transmission of art ideas articulated in and beyond California. Learn more.