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LACE, invites you to THE NOW THAT ONCE WAS, a special evening to generate excitement support for Lace's archive that narrates thirty years of its continual involvement in the Los Angeles contemporary art scene.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE
6:30 Doors Open
6:40 John Baldessari Some Words I Mispronounce
6:45 Bruce & Norman Yonemoto, Jeffrey Vallance, and Tom Recchion Blinky
7:05 Patti Podesta A Short Conversation from the Grave with Joan Burroughs
7:30 Performance by Jim Skuldt
8:00 John Baldessari Some Words I Mispronounce
8:05 Bruce & Norman Yonemoto, Jeffrey Vallance, and Tom Recchion Blinky
8:35 Patti Podesta A Short Conversation from the Grave with Joan Burroughs

IN THE HALLWAY: An Exhibition of the Archive
An investigation of three historical endeavors:
Public Spirit, 1980
The Performance Festival of Live Art co-sponsored with the Highland Art Agents and occurring in locations around LA
Video and Language: Video As Language, 1986
An exhibition that explored the one-to-one relationship established by video when language impacts on our private viewing space
Destination LA, 1991
An interdisciplinary installation, performance and video about Los Angeles as a destination for migrating people and undocumented workers.

For this special night LACE will screen selections from the video archive:

John Baldessari

Some Words I Mispronounce

In 1986 and 1987 Baldessari's video was curated by Scott Rankin as apart of Video and Langauge: Video as Language.The exhibition explored the one-to-one relationship established by video when language impacts on our private viewing space without cinemascope and a large audience.

Patti Podesta

A Short Conversation from the Grave with Joan Burroughs At LACE, Patti Podesta's film was originally screened in 1992. It is a fictional examination of Joan Vollmer to discuss such matters as the profundity of physical sensation, the eroticism of knowledge and the nature of death.

Bruce and Norman Yonemoto and Jeffrey Vallance Blinky "In the novella Blinky The Friendly Hen (1978), artist Jeffrey Vallance documented the supermarket purchase of a frozen chicken and its burial in the Los Angeles S.P.C.A. Pet Memorial Park... Ten years later questions of the true cause of Blinky's death continue to swirl. Blinky, the videotape, documents the search for this cause."(Norman Yonemoto)

Presenting A Special Performance by Jim Skuldt

Come and support the preservation of the now that once was. Amidst LACE's historical archive lies a vast collection of print ephemera, slides and videos that documents some of the most seminal performances and exhibitions by this generation's most admired artists.