To The Fullest Exhibition: World of Echo: Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell
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Program
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Gallery Hours
Wednesday–Sunday, 12-6pm and during concert intermissions
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Borrowing its title from Arthur Russell’s 1986 album, this exhibition reconsiders the legacies of two maverick artists—Arthur Russell and Julius Eastman—focusing on their intersections, shared spaces, and continued echoes today. The show takes Seth Parker Woods’ audio installation The Holy Presence—which presents his performance of the 10 cello parts in Eastman’s 1981 masterwork The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc in an array of speakers—as a model for an immersive, focused, and somatic intersection of the artist’s work. Other contemporary artists in the exhibition who contend with the legacy of Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell include: Devendra Banhart, Julia Holter, Roberto Carlos Lange, Justen Leroy, Kyle Marshall, Missy Mazzoli, Moor Mother, Dave Muller, Ethan Philbrick, Adee Roberson, Christopher Rountree, claire rousay, Kristi Sword, Adam Tendler, Davóne Tines, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste & LaMont Hamilton, Saul Williams, Wild Up, Matt Wolf, richard valitutto, and Andrew Yee. Incorporating archival materials including rarely seen video and newly available audio, the exhibition draws attention to the various modes of collaboration between Eastman and Russell—as curator, conductor, performer, musician, and friend—from 1975 until their all-too-early deaths. With particular attention to the ways in which their work implicated the queer body and utilized language as modes of liberation, this exhibition seeks to reimagine their legacies as multi-hyphenate, world-straddling artists whose work together encompasses the breadth and possibility of creativity expanding from classical performance and minimalist composition to the rise of disco and dance to experimental intermedia work.
Exhibition Walkthroughs:
March 29 at 7pm
May 2 at 7pm
May 4 at 1pm
About Endless Season
Art in LA has long been about freedom and a rich rejection of history. With intersecting methods and intentions, it is humble yet aspirational, creating a city that appeals to the aesthete and mystic in all its citizens. Here, famous artists also double as street-side sign painters, our finest restaurants are located in strip malls, and our landmarks are more geographical than architectural or fleetingly experiential rather than permanent monuments to their lineages. Here, our religious and secular musics sound the same.
Endless Season revolves around these distinct West Coast traits. These programs mark a new chapter, focusing on sustainability and place, and investing in the artists and audiences who make our city vibrant. Together, we encourage, question, reinterpret, and challenge the past, modality, and genre. We hold a space for intersectionality and dialogue surrounding every aspect of our work.
More about Endless SeasonEndless Season 2024-2025
Endless Season continues internationally and across Los Angeles, as we embark on a year of festivals, residencies, and deep explorations of sound and those close-to-the-heart feelings that draw us toward one another. We begin by bringing the music of Julius Eastman to Germany at Ruhrtriennale. Then, we look toward the future of society with a weekend of democratic music-making with Democracy Sessions at MOCA Warehouse. In 2025, we untether Darkness Sounding, a festival that explores how listening, sound, and music shape our understanding of the world, from LA to congregate in New York around tuning and droves of medieval harmonies at 92NY. And we explore what it means to live life To The Fullest, celebrating selves brimming with unique righteousness, around the music of Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell in a three-month-long festival with the LA Philharmonic and REDCAT and other partners yet to be announced.