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Art

Louise Lawler: A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture

When

Thursday Feb 14, 2008 (7:30pm)

Where

Aero Theatre

1328 Montana Ave

323.466.3456

Price

$9

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Note: This performance takes place as part of West of Rome's month-long, multi-venue art project Women in the City.

Aero Theatre says…

Louise Lawler's influential work in the '80s excoriated the shallow and oppressive depictions of feminine icons in film and other media. Her strategies included photographing and appropriating the works of others — tonight's performance, for example, plays a film's audio without visual elements to poke holes in the unthinking pleasure principle driving the entertainment industry. A Movie was originally staged at the Aero in 1979, and its revival is just one part of a monthlong special project from West of Rome. Women in the City presents performances, posted work, and other spontaneous and random happenings by Lawler, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, and Cindy Sherman at various spots around LA.