Please join Les Figues Press and LACE for the opening of Maxi Kim’s The Principle of North Korean Charity.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
6522 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

2:00 p.m. Artist/writer talk with Maxi Kim (open to the public)
4:00 p.m. Performance with Maxi Kim and Robbie Hansen, plus short video by Gina Clark.

About The Principle of North Korean Charity:

No State is a state without an idea. If we examine many of today’s visual art practices by and about East Asians – from Ai Wei Wei’s process oriented antics to Yoshitomo Nara’s interactive environments – the general trajectory appears to lack any concern or significant relevance to really existing totalitarian States of exceptions. The Principle of North Korean Charity is a modest attempt to accommodate this larger purview by presenting Kim Jong Il’s art theory in the context of Les Figues Press’ broader ongoing considerations within Not Content.

For more, visit the event blog.

Not Content is part of LACE’s year-long initiative, PUBLIC INTEREST, and Part 1 of Kim Schoenstadt’s PAINTED OVER/UNDER: PARTS 1-4