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Table Top Shakespeare: At Home Edition explores the dynamic force of narrative in Shakespeare’s plays. Each of the plays is intimately retold by one actor, sitting alone at a table alongside shelves lined with household objects and a collection of everyday products that become the play’s characters.
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Learn moreThin Skin is a true story about keeping it together when you're falling apart.
Learn moreCONVERSATION with Demian DinéYazhi’ and Kevin Holden with Joseph M. Pierce
Learn moreSHATTER/// unhinges the romanticism of settler colonialism, implanting cosmic seedlings to nurture the political resurgence of Queer indigeneity. Performers Demian DinéYazhi’ and Kevin Holden elevate poetry and sound to transcend the brutality of history and celebrate collective liberation.
Learn moreFor the TBA Institute, home school will curate and host Friday afternoon virtual presentations and discussions. home school is a free pop-up art school co-run by manuel arturo abreu and Victoria Anne Reis, in its fifth year of curriculum presenting multimedia, genre-nonconforming edutainment and creating welcoming contexts for critical engagement with contemporary art.
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Learn more"The Who Cares Clock" is a time-based publication of essays released at random over an undetermined amount of time. While there is no official end there is a beginning. Our first essay is written by d.a. carter, under the working title in/on time and will be released on the occasion of the eighteenth Time-Based Art Festival.
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Learn moreReading Groups: Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s American Chameleon: The Living Installments
Learn moreAmerican Chameleon: The Living Installments is a hybrid multimedia living artwork, instigated by Nigerian-American artist Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, that explores the ever-evolving ways in which digitality intersects with the fugitive realities and shapeshifting principles that Black queer people employ to survive and heal.
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Learn moreWorking It Release Party, Rose Nordin Artist Talk, Collaboration Across Communities Panel Discussion, and Symposium Wrap-Up
Learn moreNo Human Involved: The 5th Annual Sex Workers’ Art Show November 8 - December 14, 2019 The phrase *“no human involved” (“NHI”) is a slang term that has been commonly used by police to refer to crimes involving the murder or injury of sex workers, drug users, gang members, immigrants, and transient folks, with Black and Brown populations disproportionately affected.
Learn moreCentering the voices of artists who are current and former sex workers, this panel will debunk common myths and misconceptions in sex work politics, and illuminate related topics, issues, and debates, including decriminalization vs. legalization; sex work in the age of internet, technology, and social media; feminism, sex positivity, and empowerment; SESTA-FOSTA; and sex trafficking’s relationship to sex work.
Learn morePICA, in partnership with PNCA’s MA in Critical Studies Program, presents a free, public lecture by Emi Koyama, a multi-issue social justice activist, writer, and rogue intellectual. Emi often writes and speaks out about feminism, sexual and domestic violence, sex work/trade and trafficking, queer and trans liberation, and intersex and disability issues, among others.
Learn moreAn immersive evening of ethereal performance, film, and sound, with textures of reflection dipped in impressions of deconstruction and decay. A new project by Liz Harris (Grouper), featuring guests January Hunt and Dicky Bahto.
Learn moreWe start the festival with a BBQ and end with a breakfast! For our final daytime event, wind things down with a brunch time extravaganza of pancakes, bacon, vegan sausages, mimosas, and PICA Executive Director Victoria Frey’s famous Bloody Marys! Our curators will be hard at work flipping pancakes and serving sides. Take this moment to reflect on the festival with old friends and new. This year’s Pancake Breakfast is also a chance to thank and appreciate the many artists and generous volunteers who make this festival possible.
Learn moreFeeling of Home will reconstruct what home and healing can feel like for local, intergenerational Black and Brown artists and communities. In this space we will focus on home and what it feels like for the individual but also what home feels like when we come together as a community.
Learn moreOn Sept. 14, Yale Union will premier The Dope Elf, a comedic play and performance environment about housing, power, and magic. Commissioned by LA-based playwright Asher Hartman, the project will transform YU into a makeshift mobile home park inhabited for five weeks by Hartman’s company, Gawdafful National Theater. In the play, an aging transman psychopomp fears losing his power as his life and the lives of his community teeter against the demands of urban life, which are increasingly stark. The play’s structure includes a meta-play (the actors living in the gallery space performing as townspeople); a fourteen-part scripted play to be performed during the run of the exhibition; and a live-streamed variety show populated by the Elf and the townspeople. Through online and IRL involvement in performances and live-streams, the program will catalyze individual and collective agency by creating interactive opportunities for audiences to change the theater piece during the course of its production.
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