Live Art: LA/LA

Performance art has been a theme throughout the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA but it goes into high gear this month. Though none has been previewed, there are more than a few that antalyze. In fact, this very evening, Thursday, January 11, at the Mayan Theater downtown, you can see Mexico City-based Astrid Hadad, described as a “performance art diva.” I Am Made In Mexico is said to be a meld of “feminism and fabulosity” incorporating a style of music dubbed “Heavy Nopal.” Tickets are $12 to $15.

Astrid Hadad. Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Saturday, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Mexican vocalist Carmina Escobar will be floating on a raft around Echo Park Lake accompanied by the 40-piece Oaxacan youth band Maqueos Music. Conducted by Yulissa Maqueos with movement artist Oguri, Fiesta Perpetual was originally commissioned by the late lamented Machine Project led by Mark Allen.

Carmina Escobar, FIESTA PERPETUA! Photo: Ian Byers-Gamber for Machine Project

Irina Conteros, The Mountains Are Not Ours, 2016 (collaboration with Monica Robles, with E. Stephanie Gonzalez). Photo: Shannon Cochrane

If you have visited the exhibition A Universal History of Infamy at LACMA, you may have seen a selection of theater props and costumes. They are being used by performers in a performance organized by Guatemalan artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa. El Corazón del Espantapájaros, originally staged in the 1960s, was repressed for political reasons in the 1970s, an aspect of research and ideology that is part of the artist’s work. It is staged January 19 at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. in the LACMA sculpture garden.

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: Corazón del espantapáros (Heart of the Scarecrow), 2016. Credit: Leo Eloy/Estúdio Garagem/Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: Corazón del espantapáros (Heart of the Scarecrow), 2016. Credit: Leo Eloy/Estúdio Garagem/Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

Rafa Esparza, RePartida, con Alejandro, 2017, performance. Photo: Courtesy of RedBull Music Academy

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