Matt Savitsky

LA Time uses live performance and video to reveal the space between headlines and lived experience.

By using physical copies of the LA Times front pages, stripped of images and held up to the Los Angeles landscape, artist Matt Savitsky creates "picture windows" through which performers intervene in familiar public spaces. Here, the news becomes a frame for queer expression, with gestures that range from subtle (such as crossing a construction site) to bold (like stretching 200 feet of red fabric along a line of palm trees on a hilltop).

Started in 2021, the project was developed in response to a lack of public space in contemporary life to grieve the atrocities carried out against our communities and locales. This work holds very special significance as it marks a return to public space after the pandemic and charts Savitsky's reconnection to his community through performance work. This first staging at Human Resources will feature three of the project's seven video works.

This project was funded by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artist Award, New York, 2022.