> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # ArtRx LA - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/artrx-la-103/ - Published: 2016-07-12T21:18:07.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T16:29:08.000Z - Description: LOS ANGELES — This week, queer cinema godfather Bruce LaBruce gets a retrospective, the first Los Angeles Public Art Biennial kicks off, a longtime Echo Park art space holds an auction to raise money for relocation, and more. - Author: Matt Stromberg - Tags: Art, Events, Weekly Art Rx LA, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:17 (2016, 2017, part 1) ![Gabinete Homo-Extraterrestre (via tmr.la)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/07/ghe.jpg) Gabinete Homo-Extraterrestre (via tmr.la) LOS ANGELES — This week, queer cinema godfather Bruce LaBruce gets a retrospective, the first Los Angeles Public Art Biennial kicks off, a longtime Echo Park art space holds an auction to raise money for relocation, and more. ![](http://hyperallergic.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/hyperbullet.png) ## Faggotry: Bruce LaBruce Retrospective When: Opens Friday, July 15, 8pm Where: Lethal Amounts (1226 W 7th St, Downtown, Los Angeles) Since the late 1980s, [Bruce LaBruce](http://hyperallergic.com/203309/the-uncompromising-queer-politics-of-bruce-labruce/) has been at the forefront of transgressive queer cinema, making films that depict pornography, BDSM, rape, amputee fetishism, vampires, and zombies, delivered with a mix of campy humor and radical politics. [*Faggotry*](https://www.facebook.com/events/128748020851163/) presents 25 years of his work including photographs, film stills, movie posters, and ephemera, as well as his signature perfume “Obscenity.” His first feature film [*No Skin Off My Ass*](https://www.facebook.com/events/1004102679696858/) (1990), starring LaBruce as a hairdresser who falls in love with a skinhead, will also be [screening at Redcat](https://www.facebook.com/events/1004102679696858/) on Saturday, sponsored by Outfest. ![Bruce LaBruce, "No Skin Off My Ass" (1990), 73 min (via facebook)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/07/labruce.jpg) Bruce LaBruce, “No Skin Off My Ass” (1990), 73 min (via facebook) ![](http://hyperallergic.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/hyperbullet.png) ## Current:LA Water Public Art Biennial When: Begins Saturday, July 16 Where: [sites throughout Los Angeles](http://www.currentla.org/sites/?ref=hyperallergic.com) Instead of focusing on the museum as the sole locus of contemporary art, Los Angeles’ first [Public Art Biennial](http://www.currentla.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) has chosen [16 sites](http://www.currentla.org/sites/?ref=hyperallergic.com) throughout the city to host a program of public performances and artworks. Titled [Current:LA](http://www.currentla.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com), the monthlong series of events will focus on water, not only as it affects us Angelenos in the midst of a drought, but its importance on a global scale. Artists include Edgar Arceneaux, Kerry Tribe, Gala Porras-Kim, Kori Newkirk, Michael Parker, and many others. ![Mel Chin, one of the artists in Current: LA (via currentla.org)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/07/chin01.jpg) Mel Chin, one of the artists in Current: LA (via currentla.org) ![](http://hyperallergic.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/hyperbullet.png) ## Mertzbau: 419 Salvaged Wooden Chairs by Artists When: Opens Saturday, July 6, 4–6pm Where: TIF SIGFRIDS (1507 Wilcox Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles) Filling several rooms of his family’s home in Hanover, the “[Merzbau](https://www.moma.org/explore/inside%5Fout/2012/07/09/in-search-of-lost-art-kurt-schwitterss-merzbau?ref=hyperallergic.com)” by German artist [Kurt Schwitters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%5FSchwitters?ref=hyperallergic.com) was a three-dimensional collage — a piece of proto-installation art — that evolved over a number of years, merging art and life. For his upcoming exhibition at TIF SIGFRIDS, artist Joe Sola adds a “t” to the Merzbau, effectively drawing in Danish artist Albert Mertz, whose own work built on Schwitters’s Dada legacy. For his [*Mertzbau*](https://www.facebook.com/events/530458900477410/), Sola has created a construction from 419 salvaged wooden chairs — a collaboration involving three generations of artists who defied categorization. ![Mertzbau (via facebook)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/07/mertzbau.jpg) Mertzbau (via Facebook) ![](http://hyperallergic.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/hyperbullet.png) ## A Robert Russett Memorial Retrospective When: Saturday, July 16, 8–10pm Where: Echo Park Film Center (1200 N Alvarado St, Echo Park, Los Angeles) In celebration of the life and work of [Robert Russett](http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/events/primary-stimulus-a-robert-russett-memorial-retrospective/?ref=hyperallergic.com), who passed away last year at the age of 79, Echo Park Film Center will be hosting a retrospective of the 16mm films of this groundbreaking experimental filmmaker. In addition to being a prolific artist and animator — whose 50-year career spanned painting, abstract film and video, and computer animation — Russett was also a historian of the medium, penning three books on experimental animation and digital art. This screening offers a rare chance to see a nearly complete survey of films from this pioneer of avant-garde cinema. ![Robert Russett, "Neuron" (1972) (via facebook)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/07/russett.jpg) Robert Russett, “Neuron” (1972) (via Facebook) ![](http://hyperallergic.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/hyperbullet.png) ## Destroy All Your Humanity When: Opens Saturday, July 16, 7–9pm Where: The Mistake Room (1811 East 20th Street, Downtown, Los Angeles) For the second part of The Mistake Room’s “TMR as HUB” initiative, a series of collaborations with an international selection of institutions, the gallery has invited Guadalajara-based gallery [Páramo](http://paramogaleria.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) to organize the upcoming exhibition, [*Destroy All Your Humanity*](http://www.tmr.la/tmr-as-hub-paramo?ref=hyperallergic.com). This will be the first US show by Mexican artist collective Gabinete Homo-Extraterrestre (Gabinete H-E). The group will present mixed-media works, sculptures, photographs, and a performance that serve to reexamine previous bodies of work dealing with spirituality, myth-making, the paranormal, and ritual-based objects. ![pehrspace (via facebook)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/07/pehr.jpg) pehrspace (via Facebook) ![](http://hyperallergic.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/hyperbullet.png) ## Pehr Auction When: Monday, July 18, 7–10pm Where: pehrspace (325 Glendale Boulevard, Echo Park, Los Angeles) After 10 years as a mainstay of the Echo Park underground music and art scene, storefront performance space and gallery [pehrspace](http://pehrspace.tumblr.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) is being evicted from its Glendale Boulevard location. As part of [a slew of events](https://www.facebook.com/events/1814045028827565/) leading up to the gallery’s exodus at the end of the month, it’ll be holding an [auction](https://www.facebook.com/events/2043979235827612/) to help raise funds for its relocation effort. Records, art, musical instruments, and more will be on the auction block, in addition to a number of items on sale for a set price. The gallery has also set up a [go fund me page](https://www.gofundme.com/pehrspace?ref=hyperallergic.com) for donations.