September 2019
Sadie Barnette & Nayland Blake at the ICA LA
On view: September 29, 2019–January 26, 2020 The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), one of LA’s newest contemporary art institutions in the downtown Arts District, features two exhibitions that play off of each other. Sadie Barnette’s The New Eagle Creek Saloon is a redux of the Eagle Creek Saloon, the first black-owned gay bar in the Bay Area that was operated by the artist’s father in the ‘90s. Barnette created a literal bar and gathering place for the community…
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Undanced performances through prison walls during a pandemic at the ICA LA
Over the past month, artists have been enacting community-driven projects at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) as part of “Field Workshops.” The ICA LA writes that this initiative “responds to the latest cultural, civic, and social activities taking place in Los Angeles and the world at large.” As part of the Field Workshops, this week, dancer Suchi Branfman is enacting choreographed pieces by inmates at the Correctional Rehabilitation Center (CRC) prison — a medium-security prison in…
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The Condition of Being Addressable
A new exhibition at the ICA LA takes its starting point from a quote in Claudia Rankine’s 2014 Citizen, in which she quotes feminist theorist Judith Butler. When asked what makes language hurtful, Butler responds, “Our very being exposes us to the address of another … we suffer from the condition of being addressable.” The exhibition includes 25 intergenerational artists who tease out this relationship between language and the body while exploring notions of gender, race, and sexuality. The show…
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