Save the date if you are near LA: 24th / 25th March at AUTOMATA; world premiere of:

ホテル Hotel – Surrogates: the Slide-Show @ AUTOMATA, China Town, Los Angeles, 8pm.

Preparing the show, and going crazy (that’s nothing new):

Josiane Keller “preparing slide-show at AUTOMATA” (2017)

Josiane Keller “preparing slide-show at AUTOMATA 2” (2017)

Hilton Als claims, it’s OK if the bulb burns out, because in the 80’s NYC audiences would simply sit and wait:

“… In small venues around town, Goldin would hold the projector as she manually clicked through images; if the bulb on the machine burned out, she’d run home and get another one. Audiences waited. …”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/04/nan-goldins-the-ballad-of-sexual-dependency

I hope in the 21st century LA audience (allegedly way more chill) will also wait, it will take me only an hour, roughly, to get that other bulb.