Sarah Cooper is a curator, writer, and art historian based in Los Angeles.
She is the Public Programs Specialist for performance at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where she directs the experimental performance series Ever Present, among other programs.
She has organized programs featuring artists and musicians including Kim Gordon, Simone Forti, Brendan Fernandes, Patti Smith, Lonnie Holley, Martin Creed, Midori Takada, Helado Negro, Moor Mother, David Wojnarowicz, Derek Jarman, and Solange Knowles.
In addition, Sarah has held positions at The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Royal Academy in London, and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
She holds a Master's Degree in Art History from Hunter College, New York. Her thesis, Expanding Experimentalism: Popular Music and Art at the Kitchen in New York City, 1971-1985, explores the creative output of artists' bands and the relationship between popular music and avant-garde performance practices.
sarahannecooper [at] gmail.com
She is the Public Programs Specialist for performance at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where she directs the experimental performance series Ever Present, among other programs.
She has organized programs featuring artists and musicians including Kim Gordon, Simone Forti, Brendan Fernandes, Patti Smith, Lonnie Holley, Martin Creed, Midori Takada, Helado Negro, Moor Mother, David Wojnarowicz, Derek Jarman, and Solange Knowles.
In addition, Sarah has held positions at The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Royal Academy in London, and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
She holds a Master's Degree in Art History from Hunter College, New York. Her thesis, Expanding Experimentalism: Popular Music and Art at the Kitchen in New York City, 1971-1985, explores the creative output of artists' bands and the relationship between popular music and avant-garde performance practices.
sarahannecooper [at] gmail.com
Featuring Butchy Fuego & Jeremiah Chiu
December 5, 2015
Getty Center, Los Angeles
The extraordinary, all-female music project OOIOO is led by the compellingly radical Yoshimi. Since 1997, OOIOO has produced seven full-length albums that have consistently subverted expectations and warped perceptions of what constitutes pop and experimental music.
For nearly 30 years, Yoshimi (a.k.a. Yoshimio or Yoshimi P-We) has been a drummer and artistic force within the pioneering noise rock band Boredoms. Defined by their sonic-psychic explosions and incomprehensible chaos, Boredoms made a strong impact on the artistic identity of both Japanese and American youth culture throughout the 1990s to today. The band’s international cult following led to the most far-out and pointedly strange album ever supported by a major record label when Warner Music released Pop Tatari in 1992, leading to major tours opening for Sonic Youth and Nirvana. The band also became known for organizing epic, spiraling drum circle events known as 77 BoaDrum, staged under the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges in New York in 2007, and subsequent iterations held around the world.
This rare U.S. performance by OOIOO is presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Younger Generation: Contemporary Japanese Photography, which celebrates recent work by women photographers who rose to prominence in Japan in the 1990s and who have defied preconceptions. Like these artists, OOIOO rattles the boundaries around tradition, artistic expression, and pop culture.
Butchy Fuego, a drummer and electronic musician, has been playing with Yoshimi as part of Boredoms since 2007. He also performs with the acclaimed band Liars and his solo project, San Gabriel. Fuego has been a close friend and collaborator with the individual members of OOIOO in several different musical settings. For this special opening set he will be joined by musician and designer Jeremiah Chiu, marking their second performance as a duo. Their first project together was Doppler at High Noon, performed in October 2015 at High Desert Test Sites in Utah, for which they simultaneously played music atop vehicles traveling up to 50 mph. For their (stationary) performance at the Getty, the duo is performing an original visual/music work, where their sounds will modulate drone video footage.
