LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) is pleased to present GUTTED: LACE'S ANNUAL WINTER BENEFIT with guest curator Dino Dinco

GUTTED showcases a daring ensemble of live performance, texts and objects speaking of, from and to the body. With a roster of creative talent spanning thirty years of live performance, GUTTED illustrates an array of ways artists have addressed the body, spanning issues of domesticity and labor, AIDS, race, social activism, war, queerness, straightness, bodybuilding and body destruction, identities, sexualities, fantasy & grotesquerie.

This year, LACE has teamed up with Los Angeles-based curator and artist Dino Dinco, who brings his own interests and experience to this annual fundraising event. Inspired by Los Angeles’ history of performance art and LACE's role as an open platform for artistic expression, Dinco has reached out to a range of artists, both established and emerging, to present an unrestrained evening of contemporary performance works.

Participating artists include: Benjamin Weissman, Raquel Gutierrez, Dawn Kasper, Xuanito Carlos Espinoza Cuellar, Sheree Rose, Monica Duncan, Alice Cunt, Lucas Michael, Elle Mehrmand & Micha Cardenas, Marcus Civin, Ryan Heffington, Rafael Esparza, Gronk, Oscar "Sister Mantos" Santos, Josseline Black, Brian Getnick / THE BALLET, Hi Fashion $9.99, Julie Tolentino & Pigpen, Taisha Ciara Paggett, Heather Cassils. Mariel Carranza, Grace Killjoy, Dorian Wood, Samuel Vasquez, Bela Messex, Martin del Campo Jr., Joseph Shahadi and more!

"The impetus for GUTTED stems from my love for performance as well as my ongoing interest in the work of French philosopher and social critic Jean-Luc Nancy, particularly his work Corpus. In this work, Nancy articulates that there is no ontology of the body, but rather, the body is ontology itself. The body is a familiar subject of discourse in the arts, as we have and will always already work from the body. A body of work. A body of knowledge. Through Nancy, I view LACE – the space – as a body that will fill with bodies, where the ongoing conversation about our / their / your bodies will continue." –Dino Dinco, curator.