The Chanterelles are Waning: A Vaginal Davis-style Los Angeles Bike Tour
“Banish the beige and the automobile for good. Go to the Bicycle Kitchen and cook up your own two-wheel transport. Ten speed, banana seat, or cruiser—it doesn’t make a Cinerama Dome difference to me.” — Vaginal Davis
ICA LA invites you to a bike tour of Los Angeles to discover the city through the lens and memory of artist Vaginal Davis — an iconic cultural figure whose work, rooted in performance, adopts notions of freakiness to dismantle cultural norms around gender, sexuality, and race. Davis was born and raised in Los Angeles and currently resides in Berlin, Germany.
This page contains links to several biking and walking routes of Los Angeles, accompanied by audio recordings of Vaginal Davis describing the neighborhoods where she would bike, perform, and play in her years in Los Angeles.
AUDIO PLAYLIST
Click here for access to an audio playlist of Auntie Vag’s Los Angeles bike routes.
These recordings depict several bike/walk routes of Los Angeles. See below for easy-to-use maps of the routes!
ROUTES
Downtown Los Angeles
South LA - West Adams - Mid City
Mid City - Hollywood
Hollywood - West Hollywood
West Hollywood - Mid City
Hancock Park
Silver Lake
Special thanks to bike advocates Kelly Marie Martin and Colin Bogart.
Witch Hunt is organized by the Hammer Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Witch Hunt is curated by Connie Butler, Hammer Chief Curator and Anne Ellegood, ICA LA Good Works Executive Director, with Nika Chilewich, Hammer Curatorial Assistant.
At ICA LA, major support for Witch Hunt is provided by the Vera R. Campbell Foundation, Jerry & Terri Kohl Family Foundation, and the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Family Foundation. The exhibition is also generously funded by grants from the Pasadena Art Alliance, Art Dealers Association of America Foundation, Henry Moore Foundation, and the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York, as well as contributions from Christine Meleo Bernstein and Armyan Bernstein, Alice and Nahum Lainer, Marla and Jeffrey Michaels, Kathleen Melville Rosenbloom and Chip Rosenbloom, and Michael Silver.