About this Performance

Borrowing its title from Arthur Russell’s 1986 album, this exhibition reconsiders the legacies of these two maverick artists, focusing on their intersections, shared spaces, and singular pathways. The show takes Seth Parker Woods’s audio installation The Holy Presence–which presents his performance of the ten cello parts in Eastman’s 1981 masterwork The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc in an array of speakers–as a model for an immersive, focused, and somatic intersection each of the artist’s work.

Incorporating archival materials including rarely seen video and newly available audio, the exhibition draws attention to the various modes of collaboration between these two artists–as curator, conductor, performer, musician, and friend, from 1975 until their all-too-early deaths. With particular attention to the ways in which their work implicated the queer body and utilized language as modes of liberation, this exhibition seeks to reimagine their legacies as multi-hyphenate, world-straddling artists whose work together encompasses the breadth and possibility of creativity expanse from classical performance and minimalist composition, to the rise of disco and dance, and experimental intermedia work.

The REDCAT gallery is free and does not require a reservation. Gallery hours: Wednesday–Sunday 12PM-6PM and Intermission.

Produced and co-presented by Wild Up, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, and LA Phil Insight

LA Phil Insight is generously supported by Linda and David Shaheen

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