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Art Talk: Tongues Untied Image

Installation view of Karen Finley’s Memento Mori, June 7–August 23, 1992 at MOCA Grand Avenue, photo by Paula Goldman

Tongues Untied

Lecture

​Exhibition organizer Rebecca Matalon conducts a walkthrough of Tongues Untied. The exhibition presents a selection of works made during the plague years of the AIDS crisis, and is accompanied by a display of archival materials related to MOCA’s history of queer-related programming. These programs included a citywide, bilingual bus shelter project by artist collective Gran Fury; Roy Cohn/Jack Smith, a solo theater piece by Wooster Group member Ron Vawter performed at the museum’s Ahmanson Auditorium in 1992; and Karen Finley's Memento Mori (1992).