September 2019
Paroxysm of Sublime
Image Credit: Carmen Argote, Marks from Birth, 2018 Click here to read press release. Curated by Anna Milone, FLAX Program Director and Curator and Ana Iwataki, Associate Curator. Opening Reception September 18, 7-10 PM Exhibition Dates September 18, 2019 to November 3, 2019 Artists: Eddie Aparicio, Carmen Argote, Beatriz Cortez, Sara Favriau, Etienne de France,David Horvitz, iris yirei hu, Candice Lin, Laura Huertas Millán, Eva Nielsen, Nine Herbs Charm (Eric Kim, Hannah Mjølsnes, Saewon Oh), Hubert Robert, SMITH x DIPLOMATES, and Daniel Otero…
Find out more »Book Launch and Conversation with Jacki Apple with Special Guest John Fleck
September 28, 2019, 2-4 PM Book Launch: Performance/Media/Art/Culture by Jacki Apple, edited by Marina LaPalma. A Conversation with Jacki Apple with Special Guest John Fleck Experience interdisciplinary performance from the 1980s to 2018 through the eyes of one of its most compelling witnesses. Jacki Apple’s Performance | Media | Art | Culture traces performance art, multimedia theatre, audio arts and dance in the United States from 1983 to the present. Showcasing thirty-five years of Apple’s critical essays, the collection is a rich compendium…
Find out more »Korsi Sessions: Ancestral Healing and Resilience Exploring Whole Wisdom
Korsi Sessions Led by Orameh Bagheri Sunday, September 29 | 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Sunday, October 20 | 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Sunday, November 10 | 10:30 am - 12:30 pm These two hour workshops are explorations utilizing somatic (body), expressive, meditative practices and more to connect to the way people individually and collectively live and move in the world. These workshops will also feel into the ways ancestors’ experiences, wisdom and resilience are carried within our bodies…
Find out more »October 2019
A RUSH OF STORIES| Screening
Photo Credit: Courtesy Icarus Films As Part of Paroxysm of Sublime Screening, Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival by Fabrizio Terranova (2016) October 8, 2019 7:30pm Feminist thinker and historian of science Donna Haraway is perhaps best known as the author of two revolutionary works: the essay "A Cyborg Manifesto" and the book Primate Visions. Both set out to upend well-established "common sense" categories: breaking down the boundaries among humans, animals, and machines while challenging gender essentialism…
Find out more »PEN PRESENTS: JOSÉ OLIVAREZ & JENNINE CAPÓ CRUCET
Poet José Olivarez and author Jennine Capó Crucet discuss their work and the conundrum of finding oneself a stranger in one’s own country. In Citizen Illegal, Olivarez explores Mexican-American narratives with incendiary humor and emotion. And Crucet shares from her wry, fearless essay collection My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education, which examines the limits and contours of the American Dream through her experience as a first generation college student.
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