Few artists embody the contradictions and possibilities of Los Angeles like Geneva Jacuzzi. A pioneer of low fidelity, bedroom recorded avant-pop, her work spans not only music,but performance art,live theater, set design, costuming, makeup, and set decoration-the auteur theory realized as ongoing art practice.She iss imultaneously championed by underground venues, DIYspacesandartgalleries, as well as prestigious institutions like The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), The Broad Museum, and The Getty. Across two decades of activity, Jacuzzi has toured her surrealist strain of theatrical synth-pop and staged dada exploratory installations in more than forty countries across the world.
Geneva Jacuzzi’s debut album is 2010's cult phenomenon Lamaze, itselfan assemblage of 4-track and 8-track recordings and"demos, "spanning from 2004 to 2009. Birthed from the last vestiges of pre-internet Los Angeles, she kept company with goths, freaks, weirdos, bohemians,and unknowns, all crystallized into one greatest hits package.
Her music is realized in simulacrum with the stage and moving image; on Lamaze, each song is a visage, whether the mime ("Do I Sad?"), or the neanderthal teleported to a far away land ("Future Past"). These ideas were actualized in both the short film "Dark Ages" with director Jennifer Juniper Stratford, and in the ongoing odyssey of live performances over the following decade. To see a Geneva Jacuzzi show is to create a suspension of disbelief in your own reality: a hit parade of pre-recorded melodies, live vocals and raw personality; part Italian Futurism, FrenchSurrealism and Dada, all leading to mysterious parts unknown.
