Mark Tribe: Sweet Child Solos
LACE – Los Angeles, CA
1/19/09

LACE is pleased to present Sweet Child Solos, a denouement for Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project currently on view at LACE. This one-night performance will feature several guitarists playing instrumental covers of “Sweet Child o’ Mine” by Guns N’ Roses. Tribe will present two realities within the exhibition space– an iconic scene of musicians celebrating American identity with a notorious rock anthem, juxtaposed with stills of war scenes in Afghanistan. He will then composite these two images and debut a new work at LACE on January 20.

“I am me and you are you and we are we and we are all together. Corporation t-shirts, stupid bloody Tuesday, see how they run? Coming back from Kabul laying in a casket, see how they fly? Something’’s wrong. The more I want to be me, the more I feel empty. The more I express myself, the more I am drained. The more I run after myself, tireder I get. Meanwhile, we manage. We blog, we rent apartments, the latest fashionable crap, relationship dramas, who’’s hooking up with whom, whatever it takes to hold on. All the existential crutches that allow us to keep dragging on, the dependencies we’ve contracted as the price of identity. Where do we go, sweet child, where do we go? Where do we go now?”

About the Project
In Port Huron Project, Tribe created a large-scale installation of reenactments of protest speeches from the New Left movement of the Vietnam era. Shot on location in Los Angeles, Oakland, and New York, the installation at LACE features public speeches by Chicano labor leader Cesar Chavez, Angela Davis, then a member of the Black Panther Party, and black power advocate Stokely Carmichael. Originally delivered in the late 60s and 70s, these eloquent speeches remain remarkably pertinent today. The Port Huron Project installation brings these reenactments to life within the gallery. This encompassing spectacle allows viewers to step inside each scene and feel a part of the reenactment audience, raising questions about the changing roles of the media, public space, and the body in political activism.

LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
6522 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028

7:00 – 11:00 p.m.

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via EM Staff, 4 January 2010 10:13am | |