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# Missed the Pacific Standard Time Festival? Watch the YouTube Channel
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/missed-the-pacific-standard-time-festival-watch-the-youtube-channel/
- Published: 2012-02-17T16:51:06.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:36:53.000Z
- Description: LOS ANGELES — Pacific Standard Time, the major celebration of California's artistic heritage, recently hosted the Pacific Standard Time Festival, a curated selection of performance and public art throughout Los Angeles. Fortunately for those of you not based in Los Angeles, there's YouTube, and the
- Author: AX Mina
- Tags: Opinion, Mark di Suvero, Pacific Standard Time, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

![A still from Pacific Standard Time's YouTube video of Kalpa, by Hirokazu Kosaka. Footage by Peter Kirby.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/02/kalpa-peterkirby.png)

A still from Pacific Standard Time's YouTube video of Kalpa, by Hirokazu Kosaka. Footage by Peter Kirby.

LOS ANGELES — *Pacific Standard Time*, the major celebration of California’s artistic heritage, recently hosted the [Pacific Standard Time Festival](http://pacificstandardtimefestival.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com), a curated selection of performance and public art throughout Los Angeles. The festival focuses on the installation and performance work of LA-based artists from the 1940s to the 1980s, largely through adaptations, remixes and commissions.

The Festival had a powerhouse roster. Hirokazu Kosaka [transformed the Getty Center](http://pacificstandardtimefestival.org/festival-calendar/friday-jan-20/?ref=hyperallergic.com) into a stunning moving sculpture of thread and hypnotic dancers. Lita Albuquerque recreated [a land art piece](http://pacificstandardtimefestival.org/festival-calendar/sunday-jan-22/?ref=hyperallergic.com) using an air landing and human beings in red jumpsuits. And LA><ART recreated Mark di Suvero’s iconic “[Artists’ Tower of Protest](http://pacificstandardtimefestival.org/events/artists%E2%80%99-tower-of-protest-by-mark-di-suvero/?ref=hyperallergic.com)” that originally protested the Vietnam War.

Fortunately for those of you not based in Los Angeles, there’s YouTube, and the group has put together [a lovely series of videos](http://www.youtube.com/user/pacificstandardtime?ref=hyperallergic.com) that captures the performances in high resolution. I wish they were a tad longer, but they do a good job of showing the essence of the performances. Here are a few favorites: