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. 


"Installation View of Passion Container at The Box, LA", 2020
Installation View of Passion Container at The Box, LA

2020Image courtesy of the artist and The Box, LA. Photography by Fredrik Nilsen Studio. 

"Still from Hollywood Central Theater Los Angeles, CA", 1979
Still from Hollywood Central Theater Los Angeles, CA

Video
6 minutes, 8 seconds
Music: Paul M. Young (Serge Modular), Z'EV (percussion)

1979Image courtesy of the artist and The Box, LA. Photography by Fredrik Nilsen Studio. 

"Still from Hollywood Central Theater Los Angeles, CA", 1979
Still from Hollywood Central Theater Los Angeles, CA

Video
6 minutes, 8 seconds
Music: Paul M. Young (Serge Modular), Z'EV (percussion)

1979Image courtesy of the artist and The Box, LA. Photography by Fredrik Nilsen Studio. 

"Vitrine",
Vitrine

Clockwise from upper left:
a. Velvet Magazine (Sept 1981)
b. Ego (1982), Issue #3
c. No Mag (1982)
d. No Mag (1982) interior
e. SLASH (1980), Vol.3, #4 May 1980
f. SLASH (1980) clipping with photo collage, Vol.3 Jan/Feb

Image courtesy of the artist and The Box, LA. Photography by Fredrik Nilsen Studio.