“Made in L.A. 2020: a version,” curated by Myriam Ben Salah and Lauren Mackler, will include 30 artists, writers, filmmakers and performers. It will highlight conceptual throughlines in the artists’ work, including entertainment, horror and the theater-film convention of the fourth wall. Some of the podcast content will come from a conversation series the artist will host in the back of a South L.A. barbershop. Mackler and Ben Salah — along with assistant curator of performance Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi — visited about 300 artists’ studios over nine months last year. “What creates a sense of horror seems relevant now.”Added Ben Salah: “We chose a more oblique response to the political climate, rather than plainly political work.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 21, 2020 13:52 UTC