Good Naked (Los Angeles) is pleased to present:
THE TRIAL / A group exhibition of works by
Nick Aguayo
Rachel Domm
Barry Hazard
Katie Hector
Natalja Kent
John Kilduff
Jeremy Shockley
Joey Weiss
CLOSING / SUNDAY, MARCH 5TH / 5 - 7 P
PERFORMANCE / SUNDAY, MARCH 5TH / 6 P
featuring Larry Cedar’s one-man staging of Franz Kafka’s The Trial (adapted by Howard Colyer).
2413 Hyperion Avenue / Los Angeles CA 90027
Good Naked (Los Angeles CA) is pleased to present THE TRIAL, a group exhibition hosted by 2413 Hyperion opening Friday, February 10th from 7-9pm with Larry Cedar’s one-man performance of Franz Kafka’s The Trial at 8pm (adapted by Howard Colyer & directed by Pamela Cedar).
As Colyer highlights in his introduction to this adaptation, The Trial was written during the opening months of the First World War. “…the world [Kafka] described was being forged by the years of extreme violence – Europe would become a place where millions would be arrested and executed without having done anything wrong; where law would serve as a cover for murder; and where fear was all-pervasive.” And yet Kafka’s self-proclaimed “talent for portraying [his] dreamlike inner life has thrust all other matters into the background.” The Trial reveals a personal response that pulls at a familiar nagging fear, frustration, anxiety toward a potential loss of control and lack of ability to renegotiate one’s agency within a sea of absurd rituals and hollow protocol.
The works in this exhibition center around Larry Cedar’s performance of this text. They draw upon the surreal and brooding nature of a continued search for answers. They express the mundane and the fluid in their material and imagery.
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Howard Colyer’s adaptation of The Trial was first performed at the Jack Studio Theater in south-east London August 2016. Larry Cedar and Howard Colyer began their correspondence when Cedar set to record and broadcast his performance of Colyer’s translation of Kafka’s Letter to My Father during lockdown in June 2020. Cedar has since produced staged recordings of Kafka’s The Burrow and The Hunger Artist, all based on adaptations by Colyer and directed by his wife, Pamela Cedar.
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