One of the highlights of the infinite number of events that took place on the opening weekend of The Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative was the Trespass Parade. The Trespass Art Parade is a collaborative project between Arto Lindsay, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and West of Rome Public Art (WoR). Trespass started at the art fair Art Platform and ended at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA).

On its way through the historic Broadway Theater District in Downtown Los Angeles artists and residents rallyed together to engage in art, music, dancing, and performance. Among the participating artists are Jon Baldessari, Chris Burden, Mike Kelley, Barbara Kruger, William Leavitt, Jorge Pardo, Kenny Scharf, Pae White, and many other renowned artists. Among the Parade performers are Vaginal Davis, Kenny Scharf, the Newspaper Reading Club, Pedestal & the All-Girl Band, and Yarn Bombing Los Angeles.

Want more art parades? Watch this: Deitch Art Parade New York 2007 / Remaster/Remix; Arto Lindsay: The Penny Parade / Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2009).

Trespass Parade Downtown Los Angeles, October 2, 2011.

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Participating artists:
Eleanor Antin, Edgar Arceneaux, Lisa Anne Auerbach, John Baldessari, Scott Benzel, Walead Beshty, Andrea Bowers, Nancy Buchanan, Chris Burden, Vaginal Davis, Sam Durant, Charles Gaines, Cheri Gaulke, Amy Gerstler, Piero Golia, Matt Greene, Julian Hoeber, Alex Israel, Glenn Kaino, Dawn Kasper, Mike Kelley, Chris Kraus, Barbara Kruger, Joel Kyack, Suzanne Lacy, Liz Larner, William Leavitt, Sharon Lockhart, Ann Magnuson, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Dave Muller, T. Kelly Mason, My Barbarian,   Yoshua Okón, Jorge Pardo, Renee Petropoulos, Stephen Prina, Gustavo Raynal, Steve Roden, Nancy Rubins, Sterling Ruby, Aaron Sandnes, Kenny Scharf, Jim Shaw, Susan Silton, Stephanie Taylor, Diana Thater, Kaari Upson, Jeffrey Vallance, Marnie Weber, Pae White, Terry Wolverton.

Parade Performers:

ACE, Dewey Ambrosino, Raul Paulino Baltazar, Dola Baroni, Scott Benzel, Bodycity, Nancy Buchanan, CollectiveCollective, Vaginal Davis, Stephanie Diamond, Corey Fogel,  !mpact people, James Brandon Lewis Trio, JETS a group organized by CHAMPIONS, Dawn Kasper, KILLSONIC, Sylvere Lotringer, Ann Magnuson, Monica Rodriguez Medina, Mobile Mural Lab, Felicia “Fe” Montes, Milena Muzquiz, My Barbarian, Newspaper Reading Club, Anna Oxygen, Pedestal & the All-Girl Band, QW##R <3, Christopher Reynolds, Kenny Scharf, Alex Segade, Sir Richard’s Condom Company, Niko Solorio, South Gate High School, Stella Adler Acting Studio, Yarn Bombing Los Angeles.

Official description:

Trespass: First a Parade, Then a Party

On Sunday, October 2, 2011 the streets of downtown Los Angeles will erupt in a parade of local artists and residents, complete with music, dancing and performance. The parade is the culmination of Trespass, a collaborative project between Arto Lindsay, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and West of Rome Public Art (WoR). They have commissioned 40 Los Angeles based artists, including John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Nancy Rubins and Sterling Ruby, to produce a statement—their call to action, pleasure and reciprocity. The statements have been printed on T-shirts in English and in Spanish, and will be worn as part of the parade and sold via the West of Rome website. The parade will take place at 11:00 am and will convene at 1933 South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90007. This project has been created to coincide with Pacific Standard Time, a collaboration of more than 60 cultural institutions across Southern California coming together for the first time to celebrate the birth of the L.A. art scene, which begins October 2011.
On Monday, October 3, 2011 Trespass will reach its climax with a blow out benefit party for WoR at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. Fantastic and transgressive Los Angeles iconic underground figure, Miss Vaginal Davis will shape our journey into the night. The rhythms of Trespass will permeate into the evening as musician Arto Lindsay will perform a unique piece composed for the occasion. Artist Rirkrit Tiravanija will engage the audience in a continuation of the collective experience of social awareness stemming from the parade.

WoR will integrate underground and cutting edge moments of street life and cultural history in Los Angeles into the party, and deliver it to a sophisticated international art audience. For a unique experience in the City of Angels, please visit our website: www.trespassparade.org.

Arto Lindsay’s musical career has often involved collaboration with artists. These have ranged from working with Jean Michel Basquiat on his artist break for MTV to a performance at The Kitchen with Vito Acconci called “Women’s Business” to a parade during Carnaval in El Salvador with Matthew Barney entitled “de lama lāmina.” Recent projects include collaborations with Dominique Gonzalez Foerster and Philippe Parreno. In April 2008 Lindsay presented “I Am a Man”, a parade in Frankfurt featuring dancer Richard Siegal, artist /musician Nico Vascellari, percussionist Marivaldo Paim, and students of the Staedelschule. In 2009 Lindsay presented Multinatural (Blackout) a parade at the Venice Biennale. He also presented parades in New York and Berlin. In 2010 he collaborated on a parade in Paris for Nuitblanche with Rirkrit Tiravanija.

Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija is widely recognized as one of the most influential artists of his generation. His work defies media-based description, as his practice combines traditional object making, public and private performances, teaching, and other forms of public service and social action. Winner of the 2010 Absolut Art Award and the 2005 Hugo Boss Prize awarded by the Guggenheim Museum. Tiravanija was also awarded the Benesse by the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Japan and the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Lucelia Artist Award.

WoR is the leading organization in Los Angeles dedicated to the realization of artists’ projects, exhibitions, and public interventions outside of the frame of galleries and museums. Founded in 2005, WoR has produced many notable exhibitions including Women in The City featuring Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman and Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelley and Michael Smith’s A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, and Marnie Weber’s Eternity Forever.