Back in Los Angeles in time to catch ‘Beethoven Was a Lesbian: A Tribute to Pauline Oliveros at One Archives for performances, meditations, Deep Listening, screenings, and discussions in tribute to Oliveros’s extensive work in experimental and electronic music.
At Hauser & Wirth there was the first comprehensive survey of Mike Kelley’s ‘Kandors’ series, which was particularly interesting when it began to conflate two of Kelley’s major ongoing projects, The Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction series and the Kandor’s series. The ‘Kandor 10B (Exploded Fortress of Solitude)’ serving as a backdrop for the exploits of Kelley’s gang of perverts in ‘Vice Anglais’.
Finishing off a few days of interesting performance-based work with catching the anger, sadness, and depression of Jibz Cameron performing as her alter ego Dynasty Handbag at The Echo.
