Nov. 18, 2023 - Jan. 7, 2024
Fragment Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITION - FOLLOWING THE BODY
Following The Body examines how artists express and challenge the notion of the body as politics, with a specific focus on Queer bodies and their identity formation, the Black and Brown body, bodies in religious cults, as well as body modification as a way of self-identification. The body can also be seen as a protective shell and a cyborg—a combination of human and machine. Two different approaches are used to highlight these themes: the method, which might be simply described as showing 'presence through absence,' presented in this exhibition, is an active dialogue with the 'exposed body.'
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Following The Body
Dec. 8, 2023 - Apr. 21, 2024
GROUP EXHIBITION - ENCODE/STORE/RETRIEVE
The landscape of memory has shifted dramatically over the course of the Digital Age, marked by the ease and speed at which we can record, store, and share information. Through digital technologies, almost anyone can participate in the production of memory at any time. Yet the ever-growing digital archive has substantial financial and ecological impacts that we must address.
Encode/Store/Retrieve draws together artworks primarily from SJMA’s collection to explore low-tech forms of memory production from the past sixty years. The sculptures, paintings, photographs, installations, and works on paper brought together here are organized into thematic groupings that reference the key processes underlying cognitive and computational models of memory—encoding, storage, and retrieval. Bridging conversations about digital, biological, institutional, and ecological memory, the artists in this exhibition provide us strategies to grapple with the emerging issues of our growing digital archive.
Featured artists include Wallace Berman, Val Britton, Jim Campbell, Enrique Chagoya, Chryssa, Binh Danh, Steven Deo, Bruce Hasson, Xandra Ibarra, Dinh Q. Lê, Darlene Nguyen-Ely, Margaret Nielsen, Harold Paris, Beverly Rayner, Analia Saban, Katherine Sherwood, Rose B. Simpson, Stephanie Syjuco, Stella Waitzkin, Xiaoze Xie, and more.
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
For more information visit:
sjmusart.org/exhibition/encode-store-retrieve
SCREENING - ECOSEXUAL GAZE: SHORT FILMS AND VIDEO
Performance Space New York presents Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens’ Exploring the Earth as Lover: Ecosex and the City, a four-day symposium to forge new relationships with the environment, engage in human/ non-human collaboration, critique calcified ideologies, and engage in new sexualities—all through the lens of environmentalism that is feminist, queer, sensual, sexual, posthuman, exuberant, and steeped in humor and play.
Join us for a video screening on Friday at 7:30pm and stay for a weekend of rituals, paradigm-shifting panels, performances, poetry, music, environmental activism, food, and a free Sidewalk EcoSex Clinic.
Performance Space, New York, NY
June 16, 2023
For more information visit:
https://performancespacenewyork.org/shows/exploring-the-earth-as-lover/#schedule
Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley
May 26, 2023
SOLO SCREENING- SCUM IN ECSTASY AND OTHER SHORTS by Xandra Ibarra
Berkeley Art Center (BAC) presents a screening of short videos and the premiere of Scum in Ecstasy by Bay Area artist Xandra Ibarra. Join us at 6:30 to mingle and stay for the program 7:30-8:30pm.
For more information visit:
www.berkeleyartcenter.org
Mar. 11 - Jun. 09,
2023
2 PERSON EXHIBITION- ARTISTS IN THE ARCHIVES
San Francisco History Center presents Artists in the Archive, a two person exhibition with Xandra Ibarra and Penelope Houston. Each artist created original artworks inspired by the San Francisco Police Department Records . The artists bring their own perspectives to this body of archival work and its representations of identity within the historical record.
Join us on Saturday, March 18, 1:00 p.m. at the Main Library, 6th Floor when Xandra Ibarra and Penelope Houston will lead a walk-through of Artists in the Archive.
Xandra Ibarra's work is presented in partnership with the San Francisco Arts Commission. Ibarra is one of the current artists participating in the SFAC Artist in Residence Program. Launched in 2015, this program builds partnerships with City Departments in order to provide unique artist residencies that result in strengthening the value of artists participating in and responding to the advancement of civic dialogue.
SF Public Library, San Francisco, CA
For more information visit:
https://sfpl.org/exhibits/2023/03/11/artists-archive
Jan. 17 - Mar. 25,
2023
GROUP EXHIBITION- DISMANTLING MONOLITHS
SF Camerawork is proud to present Dismantling Monoliths, a group exhibition of artists who catalyze their medium to challenge conventions. Through critical engagement and intimate gestures, Dismantling Monoliths calls attention to the multidirectional ways in which contemporary artists are recontextualizing the canon of Western history while envisioning fresh perspectives for identity representation, visibility, and inclusion. The exhibition presents works, from photography to video, by Alanna Fields, Xandra Ibarra, Tarrah Krajnak, Forrest McGarvey, Marcel Pardo Ariza, and Aaron Turner. Together, they shatter stereotypes and shift the monolithic historical frame of reference to new dimensions.
SF CameraWork, San Francisco
For more information visit:
sfcamerawork.org/upcoming-exhibition
June 11 – Jan. 8,
2023
Oakland Museum of California
GROUP EXHIBITION – HELLA FEMINIST
The exhibition features fascinating historical artifacts, provocative contemporary artwork, and interactive elements. Showcasing everyday acts of resistance as well as historical flashpoints, Hella Feminist invites you to experience the concept of feminism in all its struggle, triumph, and hope; to re-think your relationship to the word and the ideas it represents; and to consider how all of us can take action to shape a more just future.
For more information visit:
museumca.org/gallery/hella-feminist-exhibition
The Broad Museum, LA
June 18, 2023
SHORT FILMS – Spictacle Trilogy
by Xandra Ibarra
On June 8, as part of the group exhibition, This Is Not America’s Flag, The Broad presents an event that features time-based works by artists –Xandra Ibarra, Niña Dioz, and féi hernandez –that question and examine the complex meanings and symbolism of the US flag and issues around national identity. The exhibition features over twenty artists, including Laura Aguilar, Nicole Eisenman, Jeffrey Gibson, Jaar, and Johns, as well as African-American Flag (1990) by Hammons acquired by The Broad in 2019 and America (2021) by Hank Willis Thomas acquired last year. The special exhibition This Is Not America’s Flag spotlights the myriad ways artists explore the symbol of the US flag, underscoring its vast, divergent, and complex meanings. Titled after Alfredo Jaar’s iconic 1987 work, A Logo for America, This Is Not America’s Flag provides a critical discourse on the symbol’s meaning, the complexity and contradictions of contemporary national identity, and artists as active citizens.The exhibition was developed conceptually in the summer of 2020 during the groundswell of activism for racial justice in the wake of the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor and was inspired by two works in the Broad collection, Flag (1967) by Jasper Johns and African-American Flag (1990) by David Hammons.
June 4, 2022 -
June 1, 2023
Museum of Sex, NYC
GROUP/FILM EXHIBITION
Porno Chic to Sex Positivity: Erotic Content & the Mainstream, 1960 till Today chronologically traces pornography’s permeation of mainstream culture over the last forty years through a presentation of media. The history of mass media is one of political and social discrimination against forms of illicit content. When the first motion pictures came out, they were attacked and deemed too titillating for the masses. Since the first films appeared in the nineteenth century, pornographic content has moved slowly but surely from the edges to the center. While sex has always been culturally relevant, the creative revolution of the 1960s inspired a more open environment in which erotic material, called “porno chic” was embraced. Today sexual material has seeped into all aspects of mainstream mass media, energizing a variety of cultural genres and sparking the sex positivity movement. This shift of erotic content from the margins to the mainstream has been part of an overall liberalization of popular culture since the 1960s.
Composed of four thematic sections: A Pornographic Avante-Garde, Sexualized Marketing, Scandalous Scenes of Cinema, and Music: an Erotic Form, the exhibition will present a curated selection of over 60 videos. In addition to the commercial, cinematic and music video compilations and full screening of a selection of fine art and experimental films, the exhibition will feature vintage movie posters, historical ephemera and a timeline looking at censorship in media over the last six decades.
For more information visit:
museumofsex.com/portfolio_page/porno-chic-to-sex-positivity-erotic-content-the-mainstream-1960-till-today/