This weekend in the arts: "Son de Allá y Son de Acá"; Keep A Breast Foundation breast cast art and beer; Broadway's "Les Misérables"; Casa Fest; Borrego Art Institute; "War of the Worlds"; free ballet and more.
The Mandeville Art Gallery, located on the campus of the University of California San Diego, presents How We Gather, a group exhibition that investigates the notion and enactment of solidarity across various contemporary artists’ practices through the lens of the pandemic.
FIFTY ARTISTS. Three microphones. Two minutes each.With a program as unwieldy as a 2023 reprise of Jean Dupuy’s 1974 epic “Soup & Tart,” it’s really about what you remember, what sticks out. Earlier this month at MOCA Geffen, the poet Elaine Kahn showed up with her baby in arms. When it was her turn, she asked the audience for a diaper. A little commotion, people murmured and squirmed on their cushions, then a diaper was passed up front. Kahn squatted down and changed her kid, right there on the floor all in two minutes. That made an impression.Dupuy’s event, held at the Kitchen’s loft in TriBeCa
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Fulcrum Arts presents The Erosion of Silicon Beach, a web based artist project comprised of a video, essay, and sculptural souvenir from Los Angeles based artist Nina Sarnelle. This collection of works is part of an ongoing creative research project presented for Sequencing in two parts, with Part II launching in Fall 2021. Sequencing is Fulcrum Arts online transmedia publishing platform, providing a space for critical conversations and expressions at the convergence of art, science, and social change.
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In her essay, Sarnelle delves into the dynamism of the coast, probing forgotten histories, profound inequities, and the consequences of endless global construction. Her research draws parallels between the colonization of conquistadors and the reigning power of Big Tech, expounding on the exploitation at work in the long and contested history of labor and leisure. Viewing the coast as an unstable borderland where murky legality protects proper