LACA

Benjamin Lord - Oral Culture Book Release

Los Angeles Contemporary Archive is pleased to host the release of Oral Culture, a new artist book by Benjamin Lord. Part prose and part verse, the book explores the relationship between the spoken and the written word. The text transforms and refigures a group of ancient Yurok myths onto and against the patois of modern hip hop. Colliding the dense, atomic style...

MATERIAL FALL BACK Live Auction Party

Please join MATERIAL for our FALL BACK Live Auction Party, taking place the night before daylight savings—Saturday, November 1, 2014—at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive in downtown LA. In the spirit of ‘falling back’ and in resonance with our location, we will be exhibiting and auctioning off our archive of seven years of MATERIAL Limited Editions...

Wik-Ed Women 2

Wik-Ed Women is a new monthly series of Wikipedia editing sessions /workshops for Los Angeles women-in-the arts to contribute their expertise to Wikipedia, specifically expanding its content about women artists. Considering that 90% of Wikipedia’s editors (information-distributing-enthusiasts, really) are men, these evenings advocate against the systemic...

KCHUNG at LACA: Behind the Stucco Facade of the Sickle Museum

Join us at LACA for a presentation of a new publication containing the radio drama written by KCHUNG members while in Public Engagement residency at the Hammer Museum. The original recording of Behind the Stucco Facade of the Sickle Museum, featuring KCHUNG DJ's and Hammer Museum staff, will be playing throughout the evening at the LACA projection chamber...