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Art Louise Lawler: A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture

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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.

– Shana Nys Dambrot

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

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