Saturday, June 23rd at 9:30 p.m. PICA presents COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER
Tickets $5 – $3 for PICA and Hollywood Theatre Members!
In conjunction with Keith Hennessy’s residency symposium, PICA welcomes artists A.L. Steiner and A.K. Burns, who will participate in the weekend events and screen their “sociosexual” video Community Action Center with a post-film artist Q&A. Steiner and Burns’ film builds upon the themes of queer identity and sexual politics present in Hennessy’s work, and further positions the body as a literal site of artistic action.
Community Action Center incorporates the erotics of a community where the personal is not only political, but also sexual. This project was heavily inspired by 1970s porn-romanceliberation films, which served as distinct portraits of the urban inhabitants, landscapes, and the body politic of a particular time and place. Collaborators Burns and Steiner worked with artists who created infinitely complex gender and performance roles that are both real and fantastical, set to a soundtrack including Chicks on Speed, Electrelane, K8 Hardy, Lesbians on Ecstasy, Light Asylum, MEN, Kinski, and Thee Majesty (Genesis P-Orridge), and featuring original compositions by Justin Bond, Nick Hallett & Sam Greenleaf Miller, Ashland Mines & Wu Tsang, and more. Community Action Center is a unique womyn-centric composition
that serves as both an ode and a hole-filler, a hedonistic and distinctly political adventure.
