The artist consults Nate Young and Josh Olson of Wolf Eyes on playing with time and L.A. iconography ahead of his new performance art show.
. An homage to—as well as a skewering of—Paris’s rich restaurant and nightlife scene, the L.A.-born, Paris-based artist filled the stage with more than a dozen performers who channeled the decadent personalities that haunted these abodes, from a maître d’ inspired by Klaus Nomi to waitstaff, a chef, and a slew of eccentric patrons. Unsurprisingly, for an artist known for his fantastic visual effects, Benedict designed every inch of the performance, from the costumes to the set.
OLSON: When my dad would throw a party, all the four-star generals would be at these parties. They were all the most hilarious people on earth. All the high-ranking military officials were fucking hilarious until it was time not to be. BENEDICT: No, that’s more L.A. Leilah Weinraub’s little sister went and did the Japanese drums with the same group after me. There were only so many offbeat things you could do in L.A. in the ’80s and ’90s. If you were a certain type of parent in L.A. living in Koreatown or Downtown, there were only so many things you could send your kids to do aside from taekwondo or soccer. And this Japanese drum thing, this Taiko thing, was definitely one of them.
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