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An Evening of Hybrid Drag Performance

Please join us Friday May 19th 7-9PM, for a live performance by Antigoni Tsagkrapoulou, followed by a screening of Wesleigh Gates’ recorded zoom performance A/B Machines, 2020.

 

Derek Jarman – Double Screening

Please join us, Wednesday May 25th at 7PM for a double screening of two films by Derek Jarman, Blue and Journey to Avebury.

There will be an introduction by LA based film maker Jamie Ross

Drag Showcase featuring House of Avalon

Please join us on Friday, May 12 from 7-9PM for a Drag Con Kick off party hosted in collaboration with LA-based queer collective, House of Avalon. The event will begin with a roundtable conversation with House of Avalon discussing their video installation currently on view at Honor Fraser, followed by drag performances by Symone, Gigi Goode, and Rylie.

House of Avalon merchandise will be available for sale.

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Exhibition Walk-through with Lucy McRae and Louise Salter

Please join us Saturday, February 18 from 2-5PM for a closing reception of Lucy McRae’s solo exhibition Future Sensitive. Our closing celebration is hosted in partnership with THE LAB MAG. A walkthrough with Lucy McRae and LAB MAG artistic director, Louise Salter will be held at 3PM.

Lucy McRae is a science fiction artist, filmmaker, inventor, and body architect. She is regarded as a pioneer who blurs the boundaries across art, architecture, design, and technology with a healthy disregard for labels that limit interdisciplinary practice. McRae has exhibited at art museums, film festivals, institutes, and science forums across the world including MIT, Ars Electronica, and NASA. Selected major artworks have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, NGV, Science Museum London, Centre Pompidou and Milan Triennial. McRae is a visiting professor at SCI Arc in Los Angeles and is recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. McRae encourages scientific conversation and has spoken at TED, Royal Albert Hall, Cannes Lion and Tribeca Film Festival.

Louise Salter is the artistic director of The Laboratory Arts Collective. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of The Lab Mag. Salter is one half of the directing duo Salter & Kihlstedt, a female run production company.

Summit for Future Sensitivity

The Summit for Future Sensitivity brings together seven leading artists in the field of art and technology to present short lectures on creative research and radical-tech imaginaries. During the live-streamed event, each artist will share aspects of their ongoing research and discuss overlapping themes in a public forum. The online webinar will last approximately one hour and is free and open to the public.

Featured Speakers: Lena Chen, Mia Imani Harrison, Young Joo Lee, Lucy McRae, Romi Ron Morrison, Tiara Roxanne, and Skawennati

Moderated by Jamison Edgar

Exhibition Walk-through with Lucy McRae and Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher (SFMoMA)

Please join us October 1st at 3PM for a walk-through of Future Sensitive with Lucy McRae and Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, SFMoMA Curator of Architecture and Design. McRae and Fletcher will guide visitors through the exhibition while unpacking major themes in the films, sculptures, and installations.

Film Screening: American Media, 2020

An experimental documentary that mixes elements of political satire and horror. An excavation of the structural elements of the American media landscape and how it functions to promote capitalist nationalism. A film about a potential near future nightmare scenario where the production of propaganda and misinformation media is automated. Based on a fictional script written in collaboration with OpenAI’s GPT-3 generative language model.
Directed by Don Edler, 2020

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