LARA SALMON : HAVANA INTOXICATION
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Channel: ERIC MINH SWENSON ART FILMS · 2017 · Education
A new Film by Eric Minh Swenson ELEVATOR MONDAYS is pleased to announce LUNAR PERFORMANCE, a four-person show focusing on performance featuring Ali Kheradyar, Georgia Lassner, Lara Salmon and Kim Ye . For this exhibition, ELEVATOR MONDAYS will host a different site-specific performance each Monday evening throughout the month of August. On August 21, 2017 the Moon will pass between the Earth and the Sun. This event will be seen across North America as a total and partial solar eclipse, LUNAR PERFORMANCE is a celebration of this celestial happening. Contemporary western performance originated in the experimental “happenings” organized by John Cage and Allan Kaprow at Black Mountain College in the 1950s and later matured and flourished in the politically charged performances of artists such as Barbara T. Smith, Carolee Schneemann and Yoko Ono. This new form of art grew out of frustrations with the limits of object-based works and the social and political structures they represent. LUNAR PERFORMANCE features artists working against the failures of the objects, histories and politics of our time. On Monday, August 7th, Lara Salmon will present Havana Intoxication, a durational performance featuring a forty gallon Mojito made with Havana Club Rum sourced via a recent direct flight from Havana to LAX, and mint taken from MOCA Los Angeles. Inspired by an illegal trip to the Caribbean socialist state in 2014, Salmon questions her role as an American traveling abroad and the history of Cuban-American cultural exchange throughout evolving international relations. For more info on Eric Minh Swenson visit his website at thuvanarts.com. His art films can be seen at thuvanarts.com/take1 Instagram : @ericminhswenson Eric Minh Swenson also covers the international art scene and his writings and photo essays can be seen at Huffington Post Arts : http://m.huffpost.com/us/author/eric-minh-swenson/
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