An ART ON SCREEN Film
Special Guests, Stuart Horodner, Director, and Rachel Hooper, Curator, University of Kentucky Art Museum
ASCO: Without Permission is a genre-defying film that profiles the extraordinary, Los Angeles based, Chicano art group of the 70's-80's, ASCO, who merged activism and art as they challenged representation in the art world, Hollywood and the news media. Unrecognized in their time, they are now considered amongst the most important artists of the 20th century. Utilizing a wholly original approach to filmmaking where nonfiction and fiction are interconnected through collaborative film works made with the next generation of Latinx artists, Without Permission reimagines what is possible today in cinema and art while celebrating an iconoclastic group that was far ahead of its time.
The Kentucky Theatre and the University of Kentucky Art Museum are presenting this film in connection with the Harry Gamboa Jr: The Early, The Late, The Lost exhibition available from now through June 27.