Dec. 8, 2020
New Museum, NYC
(ONLINE)
PANEL DISCUSSION
Join us as we celebrate the launch of Saturation: Race, Art and the Circulation of Value (MIT Press, 2020) with a special discussion featuring contributing artists Xandra Ibarra, Kent Monkman, and Tourmaline, moderated by artist and scholar Richard Fung, and with an introduction by co-editors C. Riley Snorton and Hentyle Yapp.
For more information visit:
tfaforms.com/4862398
Oct. 25, 2020
– Jan. 24, 2021
Real Art Ways, Hartford, Ct
GROUP EXHIBITION
This exhibition considers the roles artists play in monument removal and making– as educators unearth histories and meanings of existing monuments, activists participate in direct action that leads to monument removal, and civic designers work alongside government officials to envision new processes for including everyday people in monument-making. As a whole, the featured artworks and projects reject a top-down approach, consider who and what we remember, and what places, events, and movements matter. Featured artists include Rebecca Belmore, Jeffrey Meris, Cassils, Paper Monuments, Nick Cave, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Doreen Garner, Marisa Williamson, Xandra Ibarra, Veo Veo Design Studio, Nate Lewis.
Nov. 17, 2020
Hunter College, NYC (Online)
ARTIST LECTURE: THE ROLE OF THE ARTIST (series)
The Role of the Artist is an experimental lecture series where we pose one question to invitees: ‘What is the role of the artist when the world has (always) been on fire?’ This series invites artists like William Pope L., Xandra Ibarra among others and to respond in whatever way they see fit.
For more information visit:
huntermfastudio.org/event/xandra-ibarra
Oct. 22, 2020
Queer | Art, NYC
VIDEO: QUEER | ART ANNUAL PARTY
The Queer|Art Annual Party honors the graduating Fellows of Queer|Art|Mentorship and occasions the ceremony for the Queer|Art|Prize, a national award program presenting two $10,000 awards to LGBTQ+ artists: one for Sustained Achievement and the other for Recent Work. We are thrilled to be joined again this year by none other than the 2019 Queer|Art|Prize Winner in Sustained Achievement and 1992 Presidential Nominee, Ms. Joan Jett Blakk (aka Terrence Alan Smith), 2020 Queer|Art|Mentorship Fellows, Raja Feather Kelly and Sarah Sanders, readings by multi-year Queer|Art|Mentorship mentor Pamela Sneed, and video work by 2018 Queer|Art|Prize Recent Work winner, Oakland-based performance artist Xandra Ibarra, performing as La Chica Boom, presenting a work that was censored earlier this year by city officials in a group exhibition in San Antonio, Texas.
Sept.-Nov. 2020
PRESIDENTIAL CURSE TO THE NATION: ONE OF 50 ARTIST CONTRIBUTIONS
Artist In Presidents is directed by Constance Hockaday and produced in partnership with UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance and Stanford Live Arts– with support from The Kenneth Rainin Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and TED. Ibarra is one among 50 artists to contribute to Hockaday’s Fireside Chats and assume the role of president.
Artists In Presidents
For more information visit:
artistsinpresidents.com
Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Nov. 26 – 29, 2020
GROUP EXHIBITION – WHAT IS FEMINIST ART: THEN AND NOW
In 1976, feminist activists Ruth Iskin, Lucy Lippard, and Arlene Raven organized an exhibition centered on the question: “What is Feminist Art?” They invited artists to answer this question on a letter-sized piece of paper. Hundreds of artists responded in the form of collage, manifestos, drawings, and prints, providing a snapshot of the ongoing conversations around feminism in the United States. In 2019, the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art asked this same question, “What is Feminist Art?” to some of same women who responded in 1976, as as well a new group of artists to capture the current response. On view are more than 75 responses from then and now. These personal statements are vibrant and varied, elucidating the contours of feminist art by complicating its origins, calling out its failures, and celebrating its achievements. This exhibition was organized by the Archives of American Art with funding from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative.
For more information visit:
aaa.si.edu/exhibitions/what-is-feminist-art
Feb. 29, 2020
University of Texas at Austin, Texas
KEYNOTE LECTURE: ON STAGE, OFF STAGE: BODY, ARCHIVE AND PERFORMANCE
The 2020 Conference seeks to bridge the gap between research on performance studies and the various practices in theatrical and non-theatrical performance. We offer this conference as an opportunity to inhabit and expand nuanced spaces between the following: performance “on” and “off” stage, the staged and unstaged, performed and written, theatrical and quotidian, the planned and improvised, practice and theory, the scripted and unscripted. We hope to challenge the assumed hierarchies among players, playwrights, theorists, critics, translators and audience members, and open the floor for a conversation between the opposite sides of assumed binaries of performance and theory.
CONVERSATION IN LATINX ART: XANDRA IBARRA AND IVÁN RAMOS
“Conversations in Latinx” Art brings together the Oakland-based award-winning performance artist Xandra Ibarra and interdisciplinary scholar Dr. Ivan Ramos (Assistant Professor, University of Maryland) to reflect on queer Latinidad and its deployment as a form of resilience and endurance against political hostility. Drawing on scholarship in Latinx and gender and sexuality studies and Ibarra’s oeuvre, the pair will also reflect on their many years of friendship to elaborate on the creation and impact of queer femme Latinx performance.Free and open to the public. Q&A and reception to follow.
Brown University, Pembroke Hall 305
Feb. 14, 2020
For more information visit:
brown.edu/academics/race-ethnicity/events/conversations-latinx-art-xandra-ibarra-and-iván-ramos
DANCE – THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY ASS
by Miguel Gutierrez
In This Bridge Called My Ass six Latinx performers – Alvaro Gonzalez, John Gutierrez, Miguel Gutierrez, Xandra Ibarra, Nibia Pastrana Santiago, and Evelyn Sanchez Narvaez – map an elusive choreography of obsessive and perverse action within an unstable terrain of bodies, materials and sound. A formal logic binds the group propelling them to create a constantly transforming world where their togetherness retains autonomy to complicate the idea of identity. Clichéd Latin-American songs and the form of the telenovela are exploited to show how familiar structures contain absurdity that reveal and celebrate difference. With Stephanie Acosta as dramaturg/assistant director, Tuçe Yasak as lighting designer and Matt Shalzi on set construction.
Walker Center for the Arts & Wexner Center for the Arts
Jan. 16 – 26, 2020
For more information visit:
walkerart.org/calendar/2020/miguel-gutierrez-this-bridge-called-my-ass
Sept. 28, 2019 – Jan. 29, 2020
GROUP EXHIBITION – ON OUR BACKS: THE REVOLUTIONARY ART OF SEX WORK
This exhibition is curated by Alexis Heller and explores the history of queer sex work culture, and its intimate ties to art and activism. Coined by bisexual activist, Carol Leigh, aka The Scarlot Harlot in 1978, ‘sex work’ is broadly defined as exchanging sex or erotic services for gain and connotes personal agency and politicized action. More than a portrait of life at the margins, what emerges in this exhibit is a demonstration of queer and transgender sex workers’ deep community building, creative organizing, self-empowerment, identity/desire affirmation and healing and the use of pornography as a deft tool for queer and trans liberation.
IMAGE CREDIT:
Juniper Fleming, Bar at Folies Bergere, 2015/2018, Archival silver gelatin fiber print and oil paint, 34 x 42 in.
Courtesy of the Artist. © Juniper Fleming.
Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York
For more information visit:
leslielohman.org/project/queer-sex-workers