Add to EJ Playlist  Last autumn, as part of Pacific Standard Time, the City of Culver City's Speak Easy Program presented performance art icon Rachel Rosenthal's acclaimed My Brazil. Rosenthal originally wrote the piece, which combines poetry, autobiography, dance and music, in 1979 and in November she performed it accompanied by composer Amy Knoles on the occasion of her 85th birthday. See the full piece here: http://www.culv ercity.org/MyBr azil.aspx

Add to EJ Playlist  Artist Liz Glynn creates a festival each night titled Black Box featuring a surprise performance from an artist each night. For more info on the Performance and Public Art Festival & Pacific Standard Time visit http://pacifics tandardtime.org .

Add to EJ Playlist  Channa Horwitz's Sonakinetograph y over the past 50 years has a unique language of compositions that depict rhythm and motion visually. Using music and dance for interpretation. For more info on the Performance and Public Art Festival & Pacific Standard Time visit http://pacifics tandardtime.org .

Add to EJ Playlist  Suzanne Lacy's Three Weeks in January is a performance of her 1977 piece "Three Weeks in May" that brought hidden experiences of rape to the public's attention. For more info on the Performance and Public Art Festival & Pacific Standard Time visit http://pacifics tandardtime.org .

Add to EJ Playlist  Sublime Environments was a public art installation performed by Judy Chicago for Pacific Standard Time. For more info on Judy Chicago visit http://pacifics tandardtime.org Disappearing Environments, a public art installation performed by Judy Chicago, Lloyd Hamrol, and Eric Orr in 1968 was recreated and reinterpreted by Materials & Applications in collaboration with internationally renowned artist Judy Chicago and participants from the local community. An installation consisting of 25 tons of dry ice in pyramid formations shrouding the environment with fog was illuminated with road flares served as a conceptual commentary on the rapid commercial development in Los Angeles. Video directed and edited by Peter Kirby.

Add to EJ Playlist  Inspired by her 1970 Atmosphere performance, Judy Chicago combines fireworks & road flares into a painting that softens and feminizes the Pomona College football field. For more info on the Performance and Public Art Festival & Pacific Standard Time visit http://pacifics tandardtime.org . Video directed and edited by Peter Kirby.

Add to EJ Playlist  Hirokazu Kosaka transforms the Getty's plaza with Kalpa. A performance installation with multiple strands of thread that's symbolic of an angel coming down from heaven & swiping the surface of a stone with her silk sleeves until the rock disappears. Video directed and edited by Peter Kirby. For more info on the Performance and Public Art Festival & Pacific Standard Time visit http://pacifics tandardtime.org .

Add to EJ Playlist  James Turrell stages Burning Bridges around the Bridges Auditorium at Pomona College using highway flares to light the auditorium in an orange glow. Video directed and edited by Peter Kirby. For more info on the Performance and Public Art Festival & Pacific Standard Time visit http://pacifics tandardtime.org .

Add to EJ Playlist  John White and the Pomona College Football team stage a performance from 1971 where the football team undressed & dressed into their uniforms & scrimmage in the gallery. For more info on the Performance and Public Art Festival & Pacific Standard Time visit http://pacifics tandardtime.org . Video directed and edited by Peter Kirby.

Add to EJ Playlist  Accidents in Abstract was an art spectacle performed by Richard Jackson for Pacific Standard Time. For more info on Richard Jackson visit http://pacifics tandardtime.org . Richard Jackson flys and crashes a remote-controll ed, ultra-lightweig ht, battery powered, balsa wood model military drone jet plane with a 15-foot wing span, and filled with paint, into a 20-foot canvas wall that reads accidents in abstract. Richard flys the plane around the Rose Bowl in Pasadena with a climax that ends with the plane crashing into the wall creating an accidental painting. Video directed and edited by Peter Kirby.

Add to EJ Playlist  Lita Albuquerque re-creates her 1980 Mojave Desert earthwork Spine of the Earth in Baldwin Hills beginning with a skydiver and into a mass march performance. Video directed and edited by Peter Kirby. For more info on the Performance and Public Art Festival & Pacific Standard Time visit http://pacifics tandardtime.org .

Add to EJ Playlist  Pacific Standard Time is a collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California, coming together for six months beginning in October 2011 to tell the story of the birth of the Los Angeles art scene and how it became a major new force in the art world. Each institution will make its own contribution to this grand-scale story of artistic innovation and social change, told through a multitude of simultaneous exhibitions and programs. Exploring and celebrating the significance of the crucial post-World War II years through the tumultuous period of the 1960s and 70s, Pacific Standard Time encompasses developments from L.A. Pop to post-minimalism ; from modernist architecture and design to multi-media installations; from the films of the African American L.A. Rebellion to the feminist activities of the Woman's Building; from ceramics to Chicano performance art; and from Japanese American design to the pioneering work of artists' collectives. Initiated through $10 million in grants from the Getty Foundation, Pacific Standard Time involves cultural institutions of every size and character across Southern California, from Greater Los Angeles to San Diego and Santa Barbara to Palm Springs. Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty. The presenting sponsor is Bank of America.