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PUPPIES PUPPIES PERFORMANCE

In conjunction with the exhibition NOT I—THROWING VOICES (1500 BCE–2020 CE), LACMA presents a new video, installation, and performance work by Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo): Performance–Trans, Transfeminine, Femme, Trans Womxn, Trans Women, Gender Non-Conforming, Non-Binary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit people (Dedicated to Camila María Concepción—Rest In Peace).

In addition to the artist, the performance features Jerome AB, Cielo Oscuro, Bamby Salcedo, Davia Spain, and Bri Williams. See link below for viewing information about this online event.

PUPPIES PUPPIES PERFORMANCE

LACMA

Thursday, November 12, at 5 pm (PST) through Sunday, November 15, at 1 pm (PST).

Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo), from top: Realistic Androids for Hospitals in Japan (audio “Kanzi the Ape Speaking Through a Lexigram Keyboard”), 2020, digital video with sound, courtesy of the artist, commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Anxiety, Depression & Triggers, Balice Hertling, June 6, 2019–July 20, 2019, installation views (3). Images © Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo), courtesy of the artist, LACMA, and Balice Hertling.

ALLEGORIES OF FLIGHT AT THE BROAD

Investigating themes that define and inform the work of Shirin Neshat, the Broad presents ALLEGORIES OF FLIGHT, an evening of music, readings, and performance in conjunction with the exhibition Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again, now in its final weeks.

The evening—organized with independent literary curators Louise Steinman and Maureen Moore—begins with a performance by musician brothers Saint Abdullah in the lobby and poetry readings by Naomi Shihab Nye and Natalie Diaz in Oculus Hall (with a poetry encore at the end of the event).

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors will debut a specially commissioned performance work, and Davia Spain will close the evening with a live music set, “touching on themes including trans experience and institutions and systems designed to suppress ancient, ancestral knowledge.”*

ALLEGORIES OF FLIGHT*

Wednesday, February 5, from 8 pm to 11 am.

The Broad

221 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

From top: Patrisse Cullors, photograph by Dana Washington; Naomi Shihab Nye, photograph by Ha Lam; Natalie Diaz; Saint Abdullah, photograph Richard R. Ross; Davia Spain, photograph by Daniel Miramontes. Images courtesy and © the artists and authors, the photographers, and the Broad.

BASHIR DAVIID NAIM’S PERSON

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Bashir Daviid Naim hosts the latest edition of PERSON, a club night and performance series co-founded by the artist.

Dia Dear, Davia Spain, and Elliot Reed will perform, along with DJs Bbyshamu, Baexploitation, and Ramdasha.

 

PERSON, Tuesday, July 3, 9:30 pm.

LAXART, 7000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood.

laxart.org/person-with-bashir-daviid-naim

Image credit: Bashir Daviid Naim Twitter.

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