• 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

Past Events

• 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