John Cage- SPEECH

A special performance for Frieze Los Angeles

Thursday, February 16, 2023
Doors at 7:00 PM, Performance at 7:30 PM
Merry-Go-Round Building at the Santa Monica Pier
1550 Appian Way | Santa Monica, CA | 90401

Los Angeles curator Walter Hopps organized his first major group exhibition ‘Action’ (1955) in the Santa Monica Pier’s Merry-Go-Round building. Hopps wrapped the carousel in fabric and suspended paintings by a number of California abstract painters including Sonia Gechtoff, Craig Kauffman, Jay DeFeo and Richard Diebenkorn. Unusually, Hopps also included a musical component to the exhibition, playing recorded jazz music and the carousel’s soundtrack as well as his own renditions of John Cage's 'Imaginary Landscape No. 4' for twelve radios.