Geneva Jacuzzi & RIKI

Few artists embody the contradictions and possibilities of Los Angeles like Geneva Jacuzzi. A pioneer oflow fidelity, bedroom recorded avant-pop,her work spans not only music, butperformance art,livetheater, set design,costuming, makeup,and set decoration-the auteur theory realized as ongoing art practice.She issimultaneously championed by undergroundvenues, DIYspacesandartgalleries,as well as prestigious institutions likeThe Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles(MOCA), The Broad Museum, and The Getty. Across two decades of activity, Jacuzzi has toured her surrealist strain of theatrical synth-pop and staged dada exploratory installationsin more than forty countriesacross the world.GenevaJacuzzi’sdebut album is 2010's cult phenomenonLamaze, itselfan assemblageof 4-track and 8-track recordings and"demos,"spanning from 2004 to 2009.Birthed from the last vestiges of pre-internet Los Angeles, she kept company with goths, freaks, weirdos, bohemians, and unknowns, all crystallized into one greatest hits package.Her music is realized in simulacrum with the stage and moving image; onLamaze, each song is a visage, whether the mime ("Do I Sad?"),or the neanderthal teleported to a far away land ("Future Past"). These ideas were actualized in both the short film "Dark Ages" with director Jennifer Juniper Stratford, and in the ongoing odyssey of live performances over the following decade...

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