VIDEO IN SITE: THE SOAP OPERA
Screening: July 27th, 2019 8pm
Video in Site is a series of screenings that will occur regularly from February 2019 to September 2019. Each screening will bring together video art and experimental film, alongside clips from the internet and other digital detritus. The work will be grouped together loosely by genre, including the Action Film, Musical, Road Film, Science Fiction and Western.
The series will travel throughout Los Angeles to venues including 18th Street Art Center, Armory Center for the Arts, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and Veggiecloud. The fifth screening at Queens will explore the convention of the Soap Opera, expect melodrama, porn stars, romance, wigs and cameo by "Franco".
Artists include: Sadie Benning, Zackary Drucker, Jasminne Morataya, Rodrigo Valenzuela and Bruce and Norman Yonemoto.
Image: Sadie Benning, It Wasn't Love, 1992