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JADE GORDON — RAINBOW OF DESIRE

Jade Gordon—a participating artist with Megan Whitmarsh in the Hammer’s Made in L.A. 2018 biennial and a performance artist with My Barbarian—will lead RAINBOW OF DESIRE, “a range of exercises, games, and techniques to identify, analyze, and respond to internalized oppression” that are “part of Brazilian director and activist Augusto Boal’s liberatory political theater methodology.”*

 

RAINBOW OF DESIRE—THEATER OF THE OPPRESSED WORKSHOP, Saturday, July 14, from 2 pm to 4 pm.

HAMMER MUSEUM, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

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An interview with My Barbarian member Malik Gaines will be published in the forthcoming print issue of PARIS LA.

Jade Gordon & Megan Whitmarsh, Ourchetypes installation, Hammer Museum, Made in L.A. 2018.

Image credit: Jade Gordon, Megan Whitmarsh, and the Hammer.

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HUMAN RESOURCES BENEFIT AND AUCTION

Join artists and performers Laura OwensRon Athey, My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade), Piero Golia, D’ette Nogle, Nora Berman, Sam Durant, Young Joon KwakZackary Drucker, Kibum Kim, Eve Fowler, Mara McCarthy, Jackie Tarquinio, and many more at the HUMAN RESOURCES BENEFIT AND AUCTION this weekend at Ghebaly Gallery.

 

HUMAN RESOURCES BENEFIT AND AUCTION, Sunday, November 12, from 5 pm to 8 pm.

GHEBALY GALLERY, 2245 East Washington Boulevard, downtown Los Angeles.

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Ron Athey.

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MALIK GAINES BOOK PARTY

“Years ago, in an interview, my collaborator and longtime lover Alexandro Segade described the work of our performance group, My Barbarian—which is made up of us and Jade Gordon, our collaborator, whom we love—as that of ‘dedicated amateurs.’ But that was a slip, I think, or he was just trying something out. An amateur move? We’ve had some difficulty with a set of terms that developed around the time our work began to circulate, in the 2000s…

“There has always been a calculated provisional quality to our work, which has as much to do with strategies for dispelling the illusionist illusions of theater and critiquing the mythic masteries of visual art as it does with understanding our positions within these fields… Much of our work has pointed to class status and enacted class anxieties, and the position of the artist has sometimes appeared to us as an amateur elite class, given the provisional access one has to travel, to refined locations, to food, high-end discourse, and actual wealthy people. But as performers we find our publics to be rather broad, and these may include children, nurses, criminals, schoolteachers, assistant curators, and the homeless.

“Our intentional dismantling of hierarchical orders—even in the very act of collaboration, which diminishes genius status—may sometimes read as a kind of amateurism.” — Malik Gaines*

The publication of BLACK PERFORMANCE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE LEFT—the new book by writer, performance artist, and assistant professor Malik Gaines—will be celebrated at Ooga Booga this week.

MALIK GAINES BOOK PARTY

Thursday, November 2, from 6 pm to 8 pm.

Ooga Booga, 943 North Broadway, #203, Chinatown, Los Angeles.

 

See Malik Gaines, “We Are Orlando,” Bomb, June 28, 2016.

See Jesi Khadivi, “Inspirational Critique” (Gaines–Segade interview), The Fanzine, February 15, 2010.

Top: Malik Gaines. Image courtesy Gaines and NYU.

Above image credit: New York University Press.

Below: My Barbarian (Alexandro Segade, Gaines, and Jade Gordon), The Mother and Other Plays, adapted from Brecht, 2014, New York City. Photograph © Ian Douglas.