Lex LAK Lou 2011 (Lexington Live Art Kongress Louisville) PROGRAM OVERVIEW Lex LAK Lou 2011 is an international performance art festival in Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky, scheduled for October 12-16, 2011. A diverse group of European and American artists will perform their work at various venues in Lexington and Louisville and participate in panel discussions hosted on campus at the...
[read more] Lex LAK Lou 2011 (Lexington Live Art Kongress Louisville) PROGRAM OVERVIEW Lex LAK Lou 2011 is an international performance art festival in Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky, scheduled for October 12-16, 2011. A diverse group of European and American artists will perform their work at various venues in Lexington and Louisville and participate in panel discussions hosted on campus at the University of Kentucky. The 20+ participating artists represent a variety of contemporary performance practices, which range from the confrontational interaction with the audience to traditional proscenium presentation. The international focus of Lex LAK Lou 2011 provides Kentucky-based artists a new opportunity for the cross-cultural sharing of ideas and the chance to participate in a truly international dialog around performance art. Lex LAK Lou 2011 is the inaugural presentation of what the organizers hope will become a regular event that helps Kentucky become an increasingly important part of the international contemporary art discourse.
CURRENT PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS University of Kentucky Department of Art, Kentucky Foundation for Women, Partnership Funds, Lexington Art League, Land of Tomorrow Gallery (LOT), Swanson Contemporary Art Gallery, Louisville Lexington Visual Collective, Parlay Social
FESTIVAL ORGANIZERSDmitry "Dima" Strakovsky, UK Art Faculty/Land of Tomorrow, ArtistRae Goodwin, UK Art Faculty, ArtistTheo Edmonds, Artist Cynthia "Cindy Lou/Ninnie" Norton, ArtistDoreen Maloney, UK Art Faculty, Artist
Lex LAK Lou
Schedule!!!!
October 12 Lexington
5:30 - 7:30 VIP Opening - Limited Invitation Only
Penny Arcade will be performing!!!!
Parlay Social Lounge
257 W Short St
Lexington, KY 40507
8:30 - 11:30 Opening Performances - free and open to the public
NoLi Arts District- North Limestone and Loudon
Old Hemp Factory behind Lexington Visual Collective
October 13 Lexington
5:30 - 7:30 Panel Discussion - free and open to the public
Tuska Center for Contemporary Art
University of Kentucky
465 Rose St.University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506
8:30 - 11:30 Performance Night - free and open to the public
NoLi Arts District- North Limestone and Loudon Ave.
Old Hemp Factory behind Lexington Visual Collective
October 14 Louisville
1:00 - 5:00 Photocopy Montage Gallery Action - free and open to the public
Swanson Contemporary Art Gallery
638 East Market
Louisville KY 40202
7:00 - 11:00 Performances at Swanson Contemporary - free and open to the public
each artists performs 15 minute performance
Scott Scarboro performs at 7:00
October 15 Louisville
2:00 - 8:00 pm
Swanson Contemporary Art Gallery - free and open to the public
638 East Market
Louisville KY 40202
9pm Harley's Main Street Tavern - free and open to the public
122 East. Main Street
(Bar Night) Penny Arcade performs!!!!!!
More About Penny Arcade: Susana Ventura better known by her stage name Penny Arcade, is an American performance artist, actress, and playwright based in New York City. Ventura's long association with avant-garde performance in New York began at age 17, when she performed with John Vaccaro's Playhouse of the Ridiculous, and appeared in the Jackie Curtis play Femme Fatale, followed by an appearance in the Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey movie Women in Revolt. She traveled Europe during the 1970s, and returned to New York in 1981, where she worked with many underground theatre artists including Jack Smith, Charles Ludlam and Hibiscus's Angels of Light. She was a friend of Quentin Crisp, and the two created a long-running performance/interview piece, The Last Will and Testament of Quentin Crisp.She has been performing her own monologues since 1985, mostly in New York. In the late 1980s she created a character named Margo Howard-Howard, a 50-year-old drag queen with a scandalous past, for her performances. Howard-Howard received an obituary in The Village Voice. In the 1990s she toured internationally with her most popular show, Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!, which, like much of her work, was an opinionated commentary on sexual norms and censorship. Her 2002 performance New York Values, which also toured abroad, dealt with another of her major concerns: the loss of cultural identity in New York during the Giuliani years. The famous Village Gate marquee in New York still adorns her name and performance, although the nightclub no longer exists.Penny Arcade is a co-founder of the Lower East Side Biography Project, a video production and oral history workshop that trains participants in documentary filmmaking and preserves the stories of Lower Manhattan artists and activists
