{"id":5899,"date":"2023-12-01T18:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T18:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joanlosangeles.org\/?p=5899"},"modified":"2023-12-14T00:48:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T00:48:41","slug":"walkthrough-johanna-hedva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joanlosangeles.org\/walkthrough-johanna-hedva\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Walkthrough: Johanna Hedva"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Please join us Saturday, December 9 from 5-6pm<\/strong> for a walkthrough with Johanna Hedva. Their solo exhibition of new work, <\/span>If You\u2019re Reading This, I\u2019m Already Dead<\/span><\/a><\/em> is on view through February 3.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hedva will guide us through each work in their installation and discuss the considerations of the project\u2019s process, and where the research is pointing next. Expect lucubratory peregrinations about the audio sonifications of space phenomena, the mystical and political capacities of AI, the kinds of submissions in jiu-jitsu, Tesla coils, the Saros Eclipse Series cycle, why three Metal Zone guitar pedals in a row is hilarious, how to use a urethral sound, Karen Barad and why lightning is trans, what lunar moths mean in witchcraft, and how cool the color black is.<\/span><\/p>\n

Johanna Hedva<\/strong> is a Korean American writer, artist, and musician, who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, and now lives in LA and Berlin. Hedva\u2019s practice cooks magic, necromancy, and divination together with mystical states of fury and ecstasy, and political states of solidarity and disintegration. They are devoted to deviant forms of knowledge and to doom as a liberatory condition. There is always the body \u2014 its radical permeability, dependency, and consociation \u2014 but the task is how to eclipse it, how to nebulize it, and how to cope when this inevitably fails.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hedva is the author of the 2023 novel <\/span>Your Love Is Not Good<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> which Kirkus called a \u201chellraising, resplendent must read,\u201d and Harry Dodge called \u201ca major achievement.\u201d Their nonfiction collection <\/span>How To Tell When We Will Die <\/span><\/em>will be published by Hillman Grad Books in 2024. They are also the author of<\/span> Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> a collection of poetry, plays, and performances; and the novel <\/span>On Hell<\/span><\/em>.<\/em> Their albums are <\/span>Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House <\/span><\/em>and <\/span>The Sun and the Moon<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Their work has been shown in Berlin at Gropius Bau, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Klosterruine, and Institute of Cultural Inquiry; The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London; the 14th Shanghai Biennial; Migros Museum in Z\u00fcrich; Performance Space New York; Gyeongnam Art Museum in South Korea; Modern Art Oxford; the LA Architecture and Design Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon; and in the Transmediale, Unsound, Rewire, Sequences, and Creepy Teepee festivals. Their writing has appeared in <\/span>Triple Canopy<\/span>, <\/span>frieze<\/span>, <\/span>The White Review<\/span>, <\/span>Topical Cream<\/span>, <\/span>Mousse<\/span>,<\/span> Spike<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> and is anthologized in <\/span>Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art.<\/span><\/em> Their essay \u201cSick Woman Theory,\u201d published in 2016, has been translated into 11 languages.<\/span><\/p>\n

Credits\u00a0
\n<\/span>AI Images: Johannes Beck and Hedva<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo by Tyler Oyer.<\/p>\n

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Photos by JOAN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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