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| EJ Hill, still from live performance of Drawn, 2011. Photo by Matt Austin via thepresenttense.org. |
EJ Hill: Complicit and Tacit
Curated
by Laura Watts for Have At It
performance series
Thursday,
April 10, 2014, 7 - 9pm
2622 South La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
From honorfraser.com:
Through
the presentation of a simple gesture, EJ Hill
will conduct an open-ended experiment designed around ideas of shame, guilt,
the politics of viewership, the conventions of performance, and the
ever-contested space between art and life.
EJ Hill is a Los Angeles-based artist known for his durational, physically
demanding performances. Hill's performances often possess an element of
institutional critique or are direct in their address of politics around
constructed identity and the body in gendered, racial and sexualized terms.
Hill graduated from the New Genres program at UCLA in 2013 and obtained his BFA
from Columbia College in Chicago. He has presented solo and group exhibitions
at Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles;
Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn; RAID Projects, Los Angeles; NEXT Fair,
Chicago; and A+D Gallery, Chicago.
About Have
At It performance event
Honor
Fraser Gallery is pleased to host its third annual performance event, Have
At It. In collaboration with this year's artists, the gallery explores the
tension between the inherent structure and chaos at work in live performance
and how much more vulnerable that tension is to be being misperceived by the
viewer in performance than it is in the visual arts. For example, in looking at
painting, the parameters of the viewing experience are familiar, while in
performance, the careful considerations and practice of ideas over time may not
be as evident or discernible. As the only commercial gallery with a recurring
performance program in Culver City, Honor Fraser Gallery is committed to
providing time and space to investigate how performance functions and
intersects with the performative acts of making and viewing art
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