JUST BACK FROM LOS ANGELES is the third in a series of portraits by artist Adam Pendleton. The video poetically captures the choreographer, filmmaker, and writer Yvonne Rainer in conversation with Pendleton at an indistinct diner in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood. Rainer and Pendleton, through a scripted and unscripted exchange, reflect on life and work, politics and art, and the relationship between memory and movement.

JUST BACK FROM LOS ANGELES: A PORTRAIT OF YVONNE RAINER is commissioned on the occasion of 100 DEGREES ABOVE DADA, the Performa 17 biennial’s history anchor. As with previous biennials in which Performa explored Futurism (2009), Russian Constructivism (2011), Surrealism (2013), and the Renaissance (2015), Dada’s (1916-25) art historical relevance and influence on artists is approached through unexpected and unusual perspectives and juxtapositions in intermedia art.

A conversation between the artists will follow the screening. Curated by Adrienne Edwards.