This Home, Forever
Curated by Nahui Garcia
LACE 2025 Emerging Curator
Saturday and Sunday, June 7–8, 2025, 7–10 PM
Heidi Duckler Studio
1206 Maple Ave., Ste. 1100B, Los Angeles, CA 90015 (Bendix Building)
Free admission. Advanced registration sold out but standing room walk ups are welcome.
This Home, Forever, is a two-day performance series sparking thoughts about the potential erosion of Los Angeles’s diverse and vibrant urban ecosystem against the backdrop of gentrification. Through immersive performances that encourage audience participation via movement or dialogue, the series asks, if Los Angeles is a chosen home for many, how do we ensure that every person feels unequivocally woven into its tapestry?
This Home, Forever is a stage, a forum, and a dynamic workshop nurtured by a group of artists and activists devoted to and inspired by Los Angeles. As development projects and rising living costs displace our communities to the periphery, it becomes crucial for every resident to confidently say: Here I belong. This is my home, forever.
Held on the rooftop of the historic Bendix Building, performances will be presented with a 180 degree view of downtown Los Angeles. Participating artists include 011668, Michele Lorusso, Los Angeles Poverty Department, Pacoima Techno, Perras Bravas, and Jaklin Romine.
Performance Schedule
Saturday, June 7, 2025
7:00 PM – Doors open
7:40 PM – Michele Lorusso
8:20 PM – Los Angeles Poverty Department
8:50 PM – 011668
Sunday, June 8, 2025
7:00 PM – Doors open
7:40 PM – Jaklin Romine
8:20 PM – Perras Bravas
8:50 PM – Pacoima Techno
About the Artists
011668 [b. 1995 Whittier, CA] is an American interdisciplinary artist exploring spirituality, mythology, and cosmogony through the digital age. Acknowledging industrial forces as our modern pantheon, 011668 unravels a contemporary creation myth while fusing elements of butoh dance, tokusatsu, and film noir.
Perras Bravas is a border-based collective in Ciudad Juárez created in 2020. Through urban arts we made installations, community murals, and creative spaces for self-expression that bring attention to the complexities of life in our territory. Our work addresses issues such as migration, violence, and community empowerment from an anti-patriarchal and anti-capitalist perspective.
Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) creates performances and multidisciplinary artworks that connect the experience of people living in poverty to the social forces that shape their lives and communities. LAPD’s works express the realities, hopes, dreams and rights of people who live and work in L.A.’s Skid Row. Founded in 1985, LAPD, the first arts group in Skid Row, is now grounded in its cultural space, The Skid Row History Museum & Archive, and produces Skid Row wide events like the annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists and the biennial Walk the talk performance/ parade. LAPD has also performed and conducted residencies in communities throughout the US and Bolivia, and in France, the UK, The Netherlands, and Belgium.
Michele Lorusso (Puerto Vallarta, 1994) explores language as an active device, where the performativity of words not only structures reality but also exposes its limits, contradictions, and possibilities for escape. Through sculpture, installation, performance, and expanded graphic arts, Lorusso creates spaces where the poetic is embodied in memory and experience, proposing alternative ways of interacting with language and its affective, political, and social load.
He studied his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and he studied Creative Writing and Literature at the Universidad Casa Lamm in Mexico City and at Naropa University in Boulder (Colorado). He is a founding member and co-director of VISA PROJECTS, a curatorial project and vehicle for the exhibition of a generation of Mexican artists in the United States. He is also part of the collective Grupo Ñ with Sophia Le Fraga and Pedro Verdin, a group of Latinx artists from the MFA program at CalArts, 2025. Currently, he is developing a public art project in Los Angeles, California.
Pacoima Techno is a project born out of the San Fernando Valley. Rooted in the rhythms of techno and layered with the textures of DIY punk and futurism, Pacoima Techno channels the energy of local histories, industrial landscapes, and late-night warehouse functions. It’s not just music–it’s a pulse, a portal, and a love letter to the 818.
Jaklin Romine currently lives in Altadena, CA but was raised in East Los Angeles/San Gabriel Valley. She completed her Masters of Fine Arts at CalArts in 2017.
I take over spaces and confront the intersection of feminist ideals that are formed by my identity as a disabled, queer, latinx, poc, living in the Southern California landscape. Where I use performance art to confront inaccessible art spaces in Los Angeles by documenting my body sitting outside for an entire art opening/closing. With zine/art book making as the last area of practice that I’ve picked backup this past five years.
About the Curator
Nahui Garcia is an independent writer and curator based in Los Angeles, currently working as assistant curator at JOAN. In 2022, she earned her MA in Curatorial Studies and the Public Sphere from USC Roski School of Art and Design. Her thesis centered around two pioneers of Latin American feminist art: Mónica Mayer and Lotty Rosenfeld. Prior to Roski, Garcia worked as the Program Coordinator at Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City, where she organized panel discussions, workshops, and symposia on early 20th-century art. Garcia most recently worked as a Curatorial Assistant for Nour Mobarak’s exhibition Dafne Phono at JOAN Los Angeles, a Research Assistant for Carolina Caycedo’s We Center Life at the Center / Situamos la vida en el Centro at the Vincent Price Art Museum, and a Development and Research Associate at Project X Foundation. In her work as a curator, Garcia is the 2023 recipient of the Fellows of Contemporary Art, Curator’s Lab. Her work has been published by Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles and the Performance Art Museum in Los Angeles.
About the Emerging Curator Program
This Home, Forever is the tenth presentation from the LACE Emerging Curator Program. Designed to discover curatorial talent in Los Angeles, each year’s selected Curator/Curatorial Team works with the LACE staff over a year to plan and collaborate on the presentation and public programming.
This program is supported by the Los Angeles Department of Arts and Culture, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Pasadena Art Alliance. Special thanks to our friends at the Heidi Duckler Studio for their support while LACE’s Hollywood gallery is under renovation.
