Final Transmission: Performance Art and AIDS in Los Angeles
- Time and Date
- 19:00 - 21:00, 01 May 2021
- Venue
Online, on zoom
- Time Zone Info
Los Angeles time: 11am – 1pm
London time: 7pm – 9pm
- Buy the book
We are now accepting pre-orders, with copies shipping in May.
- Price
- Free, but please RSVP
LADA is delighted to host an online book launch and discussion marking the publication of the 6th issue of NS*, “Final Transmission: Performance Art and AIDS in Los Angeles”.
The last in a 6 volume archive of performance art and community in Los Angeles, “Final Transmission” is a book of intergenerational dialogue between artists, scholars and activists about what it means to transfer the skills, ideas and mysteries of performance through pandemic and crises.
Please join us on Saturday 1 May at 7pm (11am PST) for this special celebration.
We will be joined by editors Brian Getnick and Tanya Rubbak, to discuss the project, and contributors Chris Freeman, Alexandra Juhasz, Sheree Rose, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Ruben Esparza and Philip Littell, for wider discussion about AIDS, performance art and crisis.
The book will be available in print and as an e-pub, and we are accepting pre-orders now.
About 'Final Transmission'
In the summer of 2016, NS*, the performance art journal of Los Angeles, brought together 35 performance artists, scholars, and activists to discuss the impact of the ongoing AIDS crisis on queer communities and performance culture in Los Angeles. Throughout that four day event, (co-produced with Swissnex Sanfrancisco, Queer Biennial, and Zurich Moves), participants uncovered histories, myths and a deep well of emotion on both sides of the generational divide created by the epidemic. Final Transmission, Performance Art and AIDS in Los Angeles compiles those exchanges in a book that highlights the legacy of catastrophe on performance making in the context of the current pandemic.
Contributors include: Pablo Alvarez, Benita Roth, Ty Geltmaker, Jamillah James, Nao Bustamante, Jennifer Doyle, Marcel Alcalá, Mica Sigourney, Liss LaFleur, Daniel Hellmann, Alexandra Juhasz, Dont Rhine, Chris Freeman, Jack Halberstam, Simone Aughterlony, Travis Read-Davidson, Brandon Drew Holmes, Raquel Gutiérrez, Andy Sacher, Robb Hernández, rafa esparza, Sebastian Hernandez, Kenyon Farrow, Nathan Schocher, Keith Hennessy, Philip Littell, Ryka Aoki, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Obidio Martinez, Marc Streit, Mark C. Tennyson, Rubén Esparza, Stuart Sandford, DINO DINCO, Ron Athey, Zackary Drucker, Sheree Rose, iiia anxelin eleuia xochipilli, Tanya Rubbak and Brian Getnick.
Final Transmission is co-published by NS and LADA.
![THe cover of the book reads: Final Transmission: Performance Art and Aids in Los Angeles](https://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/NS-landscape-copy-1.jpg)
About NS
NS, the performance art journal of Los Angeles, is a 6 volume archive of performance art production in LA from 2011 to 2016. At the start NS was created to bring artists together at live performance events organised for the launch of each issue. NS directors Brian Getnick and Tanya Rubbak, conceive of the archiving function of NS as a platform for live exchanges between artists who were otherwise separated by LA’s vast terrain and the insular quality of its many vital scenes. The first five issues were organised around performance modalities; satire, dance, ritual, activism, and sound. Their last issue, Final Transmission, Performance Art and AIDS in Los Angeles is about how performance makers process history, legacy, and myth in the wake of catastrophe.
*Formerly Known as “Native Strategies LA
Online Book Launch Documentation
Banner image credit:
Design by Tanya Rubbak
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