Programs • MOCA

Oct October 2022

Sept 24 — Oct 30 2022

REMOTE
A film by Mika Rottenberg & Mahyad Tousi

Screening
Sept 24 — Oct 30 2022

Screening

REMOTE
A film by Mika Rottenberg & Mahyad Tousi

Co-created by Mika Rottenberg & Mahyad Tousi during the Covid-19 pandemic, REMOTE is set in a post-pandemic near future, exploring what it means to be connected in the age of technology and convenience. The film follows Unoaku (Okwui Okpokwasili), an American architect who works from her solarpunk apartment in Kuala Lumpur.
MOCA Grand Avenue

Saturday
Oct 1, 2022

Off-site walkthrough with artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Member Event
Saturday
Oct 1, 2022

Member Event

Off-site walkthrough with artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Members at the MOCA Associate level and above are invited for an off-site walkthrough led by MOCA collection artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya.
Sunday
Oct 2, 2022

Art for Earth’s Sake: The Art World Meets the Crisis
With Bonnie Brennan, Russell Fortmeyer, David Nussbaum, Debra Scacco, and Michael Wang.
Moderated by Alex Sloane.

Lecture, Environmental Council
Sunday
Oct 2, 2022

Lecture, Environmental Council

Art for Earth’s Sake: The Art World Meets the Crisis
With Bonnie Brennan, Russell Fortmeyer, David Nussbaum, Debra Scacco, and Michael Wang.
Moderated by Alex Sloane.

Support for environmentally conscious art is surging,
MOCA Grand Avenue
Saturday
Oct 8, 2022

New Landscapes: Kuruvungna Village Springs

Member Event
Saturday
Oct 8, 2022

Member Event

New Landscapes: Kuruvungna Village Springs

Members at the Contributing-level and above are invited for a tour of Kuruvungna Village Springs led by Bob Ramirez (Tongva), President of the Gabrielino-Tongva Springs Foundation.
Saturday
Oct 8, 2022

KCHUNG PUBLIC: Witches & Witch Hunts: A Salon.
Featuring Sanyu Estelle, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Amanda Yates Garcia, Anuradha Vikram, and Peter Simensky.

Saturday
Oct 8, 2022

KCHUNG PUBLIC: Witches & Witch Hunts: A Salon.
Featuring Sanyu Estelle, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Amanda Yates Garcia, Anuradha Vikram, and Peter Simensky.

KCHUNG convenes a salon exploring how witches and witch hunts function to social and economic ends. Featuring artists and theorists whose research includes data (divination), A.I. (cunning & conjuring), surveillance and colonization (witch hunters), and the systems in which witches are both a celebrated necessity and an institutional threat.
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Sunday
Oct 16, 2022

New Landscapes: Holistic Healing Traditions with Fe Montes of Mujeres de Maiz

Member Event
Sunday
Oct 16, 2022

Member Event

New Landscapes: Holistic Healing Traditions with Fe Montes of Mujeres de Maiz

Members at the Contributing-level and above are invited to learn about herbalism and indigenous ways of healing with Felicia 'Fe' Montes. Each participant will create and take home a personalized tea blend.
Monday
Oct 17, 2022

Live Arts Exchange [LAX] Festival: Paul Outlaw & Joe Seely, DUET

Performance
Monday
Oct 17, 2022

Performance

Live Arts Exchange [LAX] Festival: Paul Outlaw & Joe Seely, DUET

Painful, crusty–two seasoned satyrs wrap themselves in a velvet artifice of memory. DUET is a new devised performance work-in-progress that explores boyhood, maturity and mortality through storytelling, movement, masks, and video. A 15-minute …
MOCA Grand Avenue
Wednesday
Oct 19, 2022

Off-site walkthrough with artist Rebecca Morris

Member Event
Wednesday
Oct 19, 2022

Member Event

Off-site walkthrough with artist Rebecca Morris

Members at the MOCA Associate level and above are invited for an off-site walkthrough led by MOCA collection artist Rebecca Morris.
Oct 20 — Oct 30 2022

Yah Know
By Mía Lee
Special presentation in collaboration with Chance The Rapper

Oct 20 — Oct 30 2022

Yah Know
By Mía Lee
Special presentation in collaboration with Chance The Rapper

MOCA is collaborating with Chance The Rapper for a special, week-long presentation at MOCA Grand Avenue of Yah Know, 2022 by Mía Lee. The painting is on view in the storefront window of the Marcia Simon Weisman Works on Paper Study Center on the Plaza of MOCA Grand Avenue. Yah Kno…
MOCA Grand Avenue
Thursday
Oct 20, 2022

Live Arts Exchange [LAX] Festival: Works in Process, Jasmine Orpilla + Mark Golamco + Jobel Medina

Performance
Thursday
Oct 20, 2022

Performance

Live Arts Exchange [LAX] Festival: Works in Process, Jasmine Orpilla + Mark Golamco + Jobel Medina

LAX Festival Vol. 9 presents an evening of three works in process, expanding on the festival's commitment to supporting artists throughout all stages of a project's development. The evening features three artists working across movement, sound, and the voice forefronting process and experimentation. …
MOCA Grand Avenue
Friday
Oct 21, 2022

Art + Yoga with Marley Rae

Friday
Oct 21, 2022

Art + Yoga with Marley Rae

Join us for a series of free one hour community based yoga sessions for all bodies and levels led by Namaste Marley Rae. Presented in conjunction with Judith F. Baca: World Wall and all classes will take place within the exhibition surrounded by Baca’s series of nine murals.
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Saturday
Oct 22, 2022

Grand Ave Arts: All Access 2022

Saturday
Oct 22, 2022

Grand Ave Arts: All Access 2022

MOCA presents an interactive workshop with concepts of color, mood, and perspective inspired by the work Cromosaturación (1965/2012) by artist Carlos Cruz-Diez. Events of the day include a screening of REMOTE, a film by Mika Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi; Art for Earth's Sake: Art on Screens and …
MOCA Grand Avenue
Saturday
Oct 22, 2022

Art for Earth’s Sake: Art on Screens and its Energy Impact IRL
With Nancy Baker Cahill and Glenn Kaino.
Moderated by Charlotte Kent.

Lecture, Environmental Council
Saturday
Oct 22, 2022

Lecture, Environmental Council

Art for Earth’s Sake: Art on Screens and its Energy Impact IRL
With Nancy Baker Cahill and Glenn Kaino.
Moderated by Charlotte Kent.

Digital light walls and screen-based installations chug energy to maintain their dazzling, kinetic effect. Meanwhile, crypto art, or non-fungible tokens (NFTs) promise a global reach and opportunities for new artistic expression for artists but can generate such
MOCA Grand Avenue
Tuesday
Oct 25, 2022 7PM

Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels with L.A. Dance Project and MOCA presents Dimitri Chamblas, Slow Show

Tuesday
Oct 25, 2022

Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels with L.A. Dance Project and MOCA presents Dimitri Chamblas, Slow Show

Dimitri Chamblas presents Slow Show at MOCA. Staged in public space, this performance brings together fifty amateur dancers from across Los Angeles. Based on the principals of trance, exhilaration, telepathy, and unconscious memories, Slow Show, which changes with each iteration, is a collective experience which questions the method of creating an ephemeral community around a choreographic project.
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Saturday
Oct 29, 2022

MOCA Store Book Launch: Sayre Gomez: Halloween City

MOCA Store
Saturday
Oct 29, 2022

MOCA Store

MOCA Store Book Launch: Sayre Gomez: Halloween City

Join us at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA on Saturday, October 29 from 2-5pm for a book signing celebrating the release of the limited-edition catalogue Sayre Gomez: Halloween City. Over the past few years, Sayre Gomez has been developing a psychic map of America as seen through the cultural …
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Sunday
Oct 30, 2022

Blacktronika: Now Is The Time Festival
Organized with King Britt

Sunday
Oct 30, 2022

Blacktronika: Now Is The Time Festival
Organized with King Britt

Organized with King Britt, Blacktronika: Now Is The Festival is a day-long festival exploring the many sides of electronic music with eight of the most fearless innovators. Featuring the layered club experimentation of Moor Mother and DJ Haram’s 700Bliss; the colorful sonics of Suzi Analogue; the Caribbean influenced multi-instrumentalism of Xenia Rubinos; the melodic modular magic of Colloboh; the warm sub-tonics of JWords; the time traveling rhythmatists,Tyshawn Sorey and King Britt; future ancient sound warriors Chimurenga Renaissance; and the debut of UC San Diego’s multicultural supergroup, 5hz .
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

REMOTE
A film by Mika Rottenberg & Mahyad Tousi

Off-site walkthrough with artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Art for Earth’s Sake: The Art World Meets the Crisis
With Bonnie Brennan, Russell Fortmeyer, David Nussbaum, Debra Scacco, and Michael Wang.
Moderated by Alex Sloane.

New Landscapes: Kuruvungna Village Springs

KCHUNG PUBLIC: Witches & Witch Hunts: A Salon.
Featuring Sanyu Estelle, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Amanda Yates Garcia, Anuradha Vikram, and Peter Simensky.

New Landscapes: Holistic Healing Traditions with Fe Montes of Mujeres de Maiz

Live Arts Exchange [LAX] Festival: Paul Outlaw & Joe Seely, DUET

Off-site walkthrough with artist Rebecca Morris

Yah Know
By Mía Lee
Special presentation in collaboration with Chance The Rapper

Live Arts Exchange [LAX] Festival: Works in Process, Jasmine Orpilla + Mark Golamco + Jobel Medina

Art + Yoga with Marley Rae

Grand Ave Arts: All Access 2022

Art for Earth’s Sake: Art on Screens and its Energy Impact IRL
With Nancy Baker Cahill and Glenn Kaino.
Moderated by Charlotte Kent.

Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels with L.A. Dance Project and MOCA presents Dimitri Chamblas, Slow Show

MOCA Store Book Launch: Sayre Gomez: Halloween City

Blacktronika: Now Is The Time Festival
Organized with King Britt