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# Ten Days of Local Performance Art Throughout Downtown LA
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/los-angeles-exchange-lax-festival-2018/
- Published: 2018-10-10T14:00:06.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:54:51.000Z
- Description: The eclectic programming includes one artist transforming into an alien before our eyes and J-Sette performances on the streets.
- Author: Elisa Wouk Almino
- Tags: Art, Events, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Performance Practice, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018)

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Edgar Arceneaux, “Until, Until, Until…” (photo by Robert Wedemeyer)

This Thursday, October 11, will kick off the [Los Angeles Exchange (LAX) Festival](https://performancepractice.la/?ref=hyperallergic.com), a 10-day affair during which contemporary Los Angeles artists perform throughout the city’s downtown neighborhood. [Last year](https://hyperallergic.com/403496/a-festival-fosters-exchange-between-artists-from-la-and-mexico-city/), the five-year-old festival began the tradition of collaborating with artists in another city (Mexico City); this year, they chose Philadelphia.

The programming promises to be eclectic. At Automata, the Southern California artist Susan Simpson will be presenting a work of “live cinema” titled [*A Machine for Living*](https://performancepractice.la/portfolio/a-machine-for-living/?ref=hyperallergic.com), in which her body will transform before our eyes into a “highly advanced alien other.” In another live performance that has generally been seen only [on screen](https://hyperallergic.com/memories-trauma-two-colors-two-exhibitions/), the celebrated artist Edgar Arceneaux will stage [*Until, Until, Until …*](https://performancepractice.la/portfolio/until-until-until/?ref=hyperallergic.com)at the Bootleg Theater. In the piece, he looks back on Ben Vereen’s 1981 performance for Ronald Reagan’s inaugural celebration — during which the Broadway performer paid homage to the Black entertainer Bert Williams and offered critiques on racism in the US — which didn’t air on television that day. Arceneaux revisits this unseen footage and re-stages the presidential inauguration.

Not all of the performances at LAX are at indoor venues. Jermone “Donte” Beacham and jumatatu m. poe’s piece [*Intervention*](https://performancepractice.la/portfolio/let-im-move-you-intervention/?ref=hyperallergic.com)sounds particularly intriguing. The piece “activates multiple historically Black neighborhoods in Los Angeles” by drawing on the “call-and-response structure” of J-Sette moves. The locations of their performances won’t be announced until hours before they take place — part of the point is to see how the surrounding neighborhoods react naturally and intuitively.

**When:** Thursday, October 11–Sunday, October 21  
**Where:** Various locations throughout Los Angeles

*More info at* [*Los Angeles Performance Practice*](https://performancepractice.la/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*