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Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty, the weekend will include several live performances, along with various segments from EZTV’s rich history. Friday features “Woman on Wire,” a multimedia performance by Kate Johnson about life at the digital edge, and “An Artist for President,” a performance reading by Sue Dakin. In her work, Dakin, formally publisher of High Performance Magazine and co-founder of 18th Street Arts Complex, explores her launching of a presidential bid as a durational artwork twenty-five years ago when she set out to prove that "the nation is an artwork and we the people are the artists." Saturday’s highlights include Michael Kearns’ feature film Dream Man plus short LGBT videos and more.
EZTV's critical role in the evolution from studio to desktop video production is recognized internationally, from leading conferences and festivals to governmental agencies with work exhibited at such venues as the Cannes Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), the Institute of Contemporary Art (UK), Lincoln Center, American Film Institute, SIGGRAPH, MOCA, UCLA, USC, and more. EZTV's roots are based in the social/political developments in race, gender and identity politics of the 1960-70's, using time-based, as well as performative media to counter the inroads made by the rise of political conservatism in the United States. Included in the numerous collaborators or artists presented were writers Alan Ginsberg & Charles Bukowski, painters David Hockney & Keith Haring, Yoko Ono, philosopher/scientists Dr. Timothy Leary, & Dr. Arthur C. Clark, performance artists Rachel Rosenthal, Johanna Went, John Fleck, and Beth Lapides, as well as many of the seminal digital artists in California. EZTV's notion is that technology is a means to an end, and not an end unto itself, and saw the democratization of video as a medium which all could utilize.
Highways Performance Space
Highways Performance Space is Southern California's boldest center for new performance. Founded in 1989, Highways continues to be an important alternative cultural center in Los Angeles that encourages fierce new artists from diverse communities to develop and present innovative works.
Highways promotes the development of contemporary socially involved artists and art forms. Our mission is implemented through four programs (the performance space, workshop/university program and two galleries). Annually, Highways co-presents approximately 250 performances by solo dramatic artists, small theater groups, dance companies and spoken word artists; curates and exhibits approximately 12 contemporary visual art exhibits per year with work that explores the boundaries between performing and visual art forms; commissions and premieres new work by outstanding performing artists; organize special events, curate festival, offer residency and educational programs that engage community members in the arts while providing access to professionally-directed instruction.
