Fascinating Upcoming Events

Three events in Los Angeles that promise to be super-cool and probably very weird as well. If I were in town, I would be going!

1. Start the Tape Now Saturday July 9, 2005 7:00pm REDCAT
We are pleased to present a program focused on artistic practice and performance. From stories of punk rock rival yo-yo/skate gangs to fantastic feminist news networks, this program brings together herstorical tapes and recent pieces by contemporary artists. Sit back and look forward!
--curated by LTTR (Lesbians to the Rescue) collective.
Now Linda Benglis, USA, 1973, video, 10 min.
Electric At The Cosmic Age Lodge AK Burns, USA, 2005, video, subtitled, 3 min.
The Yoyo Gang G.B. Jones, Canada, 1992, video, 30 min.
Sometimes You Fight For The World, Sometimes You Fight For Yourself
Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz, Germany, 2004, video, 5 min.
Working Portraits Maîa Cybelle Carpenter, Canada, USA, 2005, 16mm, subtitled, 8 min.
Mock Rock Ulrike Muller, USA, 2004, video, 3 min.
550 Jamaica Ave. Klara Liden, USA, 2002, video, 5 min.
Searching For The Fourth River Fereshteh Toosi, USA, 2003, video, 2 min.
Strangers Carola Dertnig, Austria, 2003, video, 3 min.
New Report Wynne Greenwood, Kate K8 Hardy, USA, 2005, video, 12 min.

2. F- (The Failures of Queerness)
(also Saturday night right after the LTTR screening at REDCAT)
my (emily roysdon) video "social movement" is in this program
Curated by Kevin McCarty and José Esteban Muñoz. Queers fail - and often fail miserably. If standards are set by a horrific straight culture - a culture that feeds on reproduction and mediocrity - how can we help but fail? The media that we present here ruminates on queerness and failure. Or failures of queerness. Or queerness as failure. We are interested in failures both large and small, sublime and gory. Performances include the trials and tribulations of having a hustler boyfriend, the sad life and times of sexy serial killer Andrew Cunanan and the various stories of queers being lost.
Push It David Quantic, Abe Sylvia, USA, 2005, video, 4 min. LYPI Jim Stamatakos, Australia, 2004, video, 4 min.
Is Bigger Better? A.L. Steiner, USA, , 6 min. Portrait of Wrongness Coco Frio, USA, , 5 min.
I Feel Love Matt Wolf, USA, 2004, video, 15 min. My Hustler Boyfriend Peter Pizzi, USA, , 4 min.
Bigger Alberto Ferreras, USA, 2004, video, 13 min. Social Movement Emily Roysdon, USA, 2005, subtitled, 8 min.
The King and I Johnathan Horowitz, USA, , 2 min. Destination to be Determined Seema Kapur, USA, , 20 min.
Let Me Nao Bustamante, video, 25 min. Accompanied by a live performance, this video invokes primal forces that may indeed destroy us all.
To purchase tickets for the screenings: www.outfest.org 213-480-7065 Box Office

3. LTTR performance! event at The ECHO 1822 sunset blvd.
it's early, 7-10 on sunday the 10th
Butchlalis de Panochitlan
SKIM
Nao Bustamante
Tracy and the Plastics

ABOUT LTTR:
The annual queer feminist art journal LTTR was initiated by artists K8
Hardy, Emily Roysdon, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi in New York in 2001 with
the first issue, whose title was an acronym for Lesbians To The Rescue. In
2005, Lanka Tattersall and Ulrike Müller joined as editors. In addition to
the journal, LTTR initiates events, organizes exhibitions, and supports and
documents the work of a community of critical thinkers who reject absolute
self-definition and identification. In Summer 2004, in conjunction with the
release of its third issue Practice More Failure, LTTR organized Explosion
LTTR at Art in General, a dynamic month-long series of events, collaborative
projects and exhibitions that celebrated and supported an international
community of queer and feminist artists. LTTR projects have also been held
at Cubitt Gallery, London, LACE in Los Angeles, The Kitchen, New York,
and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York. Issue 4, "Do You Wish to Direct Me?,"
will be released at Printed Matter in NYC in late September 2005.