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TITLE & LOCATION

Nov. 21, 2017

Cranbrook Art Museum De Salle Auditorium

ARTIST LECTURE

From 2002 to 2012, performance artist Xandra Ibarra’s persona, La Chica Boom, embodied the experience of racial and sexual abjection. Through combined parody and spectacle, Ibarra presented various works entitled spictacles—performances that engaged hyper-raciality and sexuality in order to explore racialized sexuality and queer forms of pleasure. In this lecture, Ibarra will delve into some of the ideological frameworks she draws upon to create and depart from what she calls “spictacles.”

Nov. 12, 2017

JULIE TOLENTINO AND THE HARD CORPS

Exploratory performances by Julie Tolentino, Amara Tabor Smith, Laura Arrington, Xandra Ibarra, and Maurya Kerr, developed as part of Tolentino’s year-long Community Engagement Residency.  Followed by a group discussion with the artists, joined by Tolentino’s colleagues, theater director Debra Levine (New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and The Hemispheric Institute for Politics and Performance) and activist Scot Nakagawa (with ChangeLab). This event is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency and part of 2017 Bridge Project, Radical Movements: Gender and Politics in Performance created by Hope Mohr Dance.

Joe Goode Annex

Oct. 20, 2017

Anderson Collection at Stanford University

VITAL SIGNS: CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE ART SERIES

Vital Signs: Contemporary Performance Art Series is hosted by Stanford University’s Theater and Performance Studies in 2017-2018 and curated by Los Angeles based artist Cassils. The primary objective of the series is to highlight and showcase underrepresented performance forms such as experimental performance art, durational art, and body art, among others, by artists from communities that remain invisible or underrepresented in mainstream performing arts. Cassils’s curatorial vision is to present established performance artists alongside emerging artists. Each quarter, a pair of artists will visit Stanford for two days (Thursday-Friday). On October 19 and 20th, performance artist and photographer, Harry Gamboa Jr. will be in conversation with performance artist Xandra Ibarra. 

For more information visit: 
taps.stanford.edu/vitalsigns

Oct. 14 – Nov. 17,
2017

Abrons Art Center, NYC

LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING YOU ALREADY KNOW

Using humor to seduce and disarm, the five video works in Let me tell you something you already know poke at conventions of success and failure. Video by Sofía Córdova, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Ilana Harris-Babou, and Xandra Ibarra; curated by Christian Camacho-Light and Alexis Wilkinson. 

June 2,
2017

Meet at the phantom Esta Noche

THE HOOKUP/DISPLACEMENT/BARHOPPING/DRAMA TOUR

Barhop to 5 former beloved queer Latino and Lezzi historic sites in the Mission. I can still hear the music, feel los dedos, smell the sobacos and see the drag queen mugre on the walls of our old neighborhood hang outs EVEN after they resurfaced as sterile establishments. I KNOW you can too… you just need a little motavation.  Let’s invade, resurface, and imprint our titties, besos suicios, and pleasures on the phantom walls of our adored queer nightlife venues and spaces. 

April 28 – July 28, 2017

Changjiang International Photography & Video Biennale

RIP IT UP

The Second Edition of Chongqing International Photography & Video Biennale welcomes its grand opening in Chongqing Changjiang Museum of Modern Art on April 28th. The exhibition boasts more than 200 artists worldwide with more than 1,000videos and hundreds of photographs demonstrating human history, western art talents and landscapes. The biennale, with such an array of rich artistic creation is qualified as the “museum of the world, the container of culture.” Ibarra’s video work was selected as part of this exhibition. The exhibition will be up till July 28th.

For more information visit: 
http://www.changjiangart.com

May 4,
2017

Headlands Center for the Arts at the The Lab 

POINT OF “FACT”

Headlands and The Lab host an evening of presentations that ask: how do we know what we know? The relationship between information and interpretation feels shaky when we are reminded daily that we are living in a moment of post-truths, contested realities, and alternative facts. During this evening, we will meet artists and researchers who explicitly address the production of knowledge as contingent, charged, and often charming. Lera Boroditsky, a cognitive scientist and professor at University of California, San Diego, will show how language and metaphor affect the way we think about everything from fundamentals like time and space, to complex social issues. Artist and anthropologist Adrian Van Allen(AFF ’11) will present her research of scientists at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, where they are building different versions of the future through their collections of bird skins, frozen tissue samples, and genomic data. Performance artist Xandra Ibarra (AFF ’14) will detail her latest forays, including the work-in-progress practice she describes as “alternative embodiment.”

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Presented in partnership with The Lab, 2948 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.

April 7,
2017

University of Pittsburg

ARTIST LECTURE

This film screening and artist lecture is sponsored by Center for Latin American Studies, Humanities Center Professor John Beverly,Year of Diversity, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. 

March 29 – April 15, 2017

Rond-Point Projects, Marseille, France

THE EXPOSED SUTURE

The exhibition is co-produced with and takes place at Rond-Point Projects, an independent arts space occupying a former pharmacist’s shop in the La Plaine neighborhood of the city of Marseille. A series of videos by Jody Wood, Kambui Olujimi, Kerry Downey, Sand E. Smith, Ana Maria Gomes, Dania Reymond, Kumi James, Mathieu Abonnenc, Fayçal Baghriche, and Xandra Ibarra. Exhibited at different scales — the installation tries to think moments of encounter between the body and the work in a way that mirrors our everyday encounter with representations of violence.  Three cycles, each composed of three or four artists, are planned over the course of the late winter and early spring 2017. The exhibition is a research project held in common, a threshing floor, with both video and interviews between us. One evening of performance or debate will be planned in conjunction with each cycle of the project

March 7, 2017

Counterpulse, 80 Turk Street, SF, California

MATCHBOX SALON with artists Marpi & Xandra Ibarra

Matchbox is a monthly salon, a forum for the open exchange of art and ideas and seeding new cross-disciplinary collaborations. CODAME and CounterPulse have selected digital artist, Marpi, and performance artist, Xandra Ibarra,  to have a an evening discussion on insects: real, imagined, and simulated. From evolution to ecdysis, what can we learn about simulating creatures virtually and performatively? In Marpi and Ibarra’s investigations of each other’s practices, the artists have found winding interest overlaps around symmetry and behavior as programming. Expect an evening of curious and critical inquiry into these ideas through the lens of bugs and creatures. 

Feb. 4, 2017

SF MOMA Open Space Panel at Counterpulse, 80 Turk Street, SF, California

LOST AND FOUND: BAY AREA EDITION

Artists
Annie Danger, Xandra Ibarra, Monique Jenkinson, Rhodessa Jones, Keith Hennessy, Brontez Purnell, Helen Shumaker, Amara Tabor-Smith

New York is one epicenter of HIV/AIDS in America. The other is San Francisco. As a bicoastal collaboration with Danspace Project, whose Platform series Lost and Found: Dance, New York, HIV/AIDS, Then and Now ran October 13th through December 19th, and in partnership with CounterPulse, SFMOMA’s Open Space gathers an intergenerational group of artists to explore various themes, questions, histories, and lineages as they relate, directly and obliquely, to the impact HIV/AIDS continues to have on dance and performance in the Bay Area and beyond. The afternoon event, which features Annie Danger, Xandra Ibarra, Monique Jenkinson, Rhodessa Jones, Keith Hennessy, Brontez Purnell, Helen Shumaker, and Amara Tabor-Smith, will include discussion, screenings and performative moments. Audience members are free to come and go as they please, and are also encouraged to visit the Lost and Found series on Open Space for related content.

Photo Credit: Amara Tabor-Smith, performing at the West Wave Dance Festival. Photo: Robbie Sweeny.

For more information visit: 
openspace.sfmoma.org/reissue/lost-and-found/

Jan. 27, 2017

Tisch School of the Arts

NEW WORLD ORDERS: COLONIALITY, RACIAL INTIMACIES & DISABILITY

Artists
Candice Lin and Xandra Ibarra; Mel Chen (UC Berkeley) C. Riley Snorton (Cornell), Aime Bahng (Dartmouth), Jasbir Puar (Rutgers), Mark Rifkin (UNC), Ivan Ramos (UC Riverside)

The Department of Art & Public Policy and NYU Tisch School of the Arts sponsor a symposium pairs recent work in critical indigenous and race studies with disability and queer theories. We will work through important provocations by recent humanists and artists who have turned to the formation of the New World in order to better understand our contemporary moment. These turns force us to account for a deeper sense of history, along with the aftermath of colonization, enslavement, resource extraction, and the disablement of bodies/communities. We will explore how to imagine new world orders and futures. What is the responsibility of the humanities and the arts to move forward with the reverberations of the New World? What new world orders can emerge by contending with the “old” New World?