Johanna Went
Passion Container is a solo exhibition with Johanna Went at The Box in Los Angeles. Went is best known as a radical figure of the Los Angeles punk and performance scene of the early 1980s; she orchestrated extravagant, often grotesque and darkly comedic performances. Passion Container presents a selection of the artist’s elaborate archive of performance materials, costumes and props ranging from the late 1970s to 2000s, alongside photographs by Edward Colver, Alan Peak, Ann Summa, Peggy Morrison, and Tom Vinetz, and video footage from performances otherwise not publicly available. Archival materials, original show flyers and performance and music publications such as Slash, No Mag, Search and Destroy, Ben is Dead, High Performance, and more are also on view.