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, and 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…
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 7:30 to 9:30 pm 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…
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Paroxysm of Sublime | Closing Event
Photo Credit: David Horvitz Paroxysm of Sublime Closing Event: Tea Ceremony by Nine Herbs Charm Followed by a Meditative Walk to Highland Park with David Horvitz November 3, 2019 3 to 6pm We will begin to say goodbye to the exhibition with a tea serving by Nine Herbs Charm (Eric Kim, Saewon Oh, and Hannah Mjølsnes) inspired by the plumeria plant at 3pm. Afterwards, join David Horvitz for a meditative walk to bring Plumeria Tree for FLAX from LACE in Hollywood to the…
Find out more »October 2020
Borders of Freedom/Contornos de Libertad
ES / EN Online Opening Event: 7 pm PST (8 pm CST), October 10, 2020 October 10 to December 15, 2020 Curated by Patricio Majano Alexia Miranda, Sayre Quevedo, Guadalupe Maravilla, Fredy Solan, Crack Rodriguez, Abigail Reyes Borders of Freedom is a video exhibition featuring artists living in El Salvador and its diaspora, whose work addresses the concept of freedom from different perspectives, connecting it with intimacy, spirituality, gender, migration and sociopolitical context. Collectively, the works address the theme of freedom…
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