Thursday\, March 13\, 2025\, 8 p.m. Exper imental Media Performance Lab (xMPL) Two New Performance Works
Sacred Resistance
\nBy Patrisse Cullors with Ashley
Blakeney and Darius Williams
\nSacred Resistance is an explo
ration of the sacred act of safeguarding our essence\, our being\, and our
collective history as Black women. Originally commissioned by the LACE Pe
rformance Series 'Abundance\,' this work serves as a profound meditation o
n the themes of defense\, healing\, and empowerment through the ancestral
and contemporary experiences of Black femme warriors.
The O
pen: A collective performance by UCI students from winter 2025
\nBy S
imon Leung
\nUsing “radical juxtaposition” as a guiding prin
ciple\, The Open is a collaborative performance developed as an experiment
al artwork within the New Genres area of the Art Department. Produced unde
r the direction of Professor Simon Leung\, this project explores how the s
ocial & political dissonance of our age intersects both private life and t
he public sphere.
The performances are followed by a Q & A with the audience.
This event is sponsored by the Department of Art an d the Jacki Apple Fund.Patrisse Cullors is a New York Times bestselling author\, educator\, artist\, and aboli tionist from Los Angeles\, CA. Her work has been featured at The Broad\, T he Geffen Contemporary at MOCA\, Frieze LA\, The Hammer Museum\, The Fowle r and a host of theaters\, galleries\, and museums across the globe. Patri sse has won numerous awards for her art and activism. In 2020 she launched a one of its kind online MFA program at Prescott college. She also launch ed the Crenshaw Dairy Mart with fellow artists Noé Olivas and Ali Reza Dor riz.
Her current work and practice is focusing on “Abolitionist Aes thetics\,” a term she has advanced and popularized to help challenge artis ts and cultural workers to aestheticize abolition. She has recently founde d The Center For Art and Abolition- a trailblazing nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering abolitionist artists and leveraging the transforma tive power of art to catalyze social change. Patrisse’s mission is to invi te all of us to grow towards abolition through intergenerational healing w ork that centers love\, collective care\, and art.
Image cr edit: Ori Whispers Procession\, Fowler Museum\, by Patrick Shao
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Thursday\, March 13\, 20 25\, 8 p.m. Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL) Two New Perf ormance Works
Sacred Resistance
By Patrisse Cull
ors with Ashley Blakeney and Darius Williams
Sacred Resista
nce is an exploration of the sacred act of safeguarding our essence\, our
being\, and our collective history as Black women. Originally commissioned
by the LACE Performance Series 'Abundance\,' this work serves as a profou
nd meditation on the themes of defense\, healing\, and empowerment through
the ancestral and contemporary experiences of Black femme warriors.
The performances are followed by a Q & A with the audience.
This event is sponsored by the Departm ent of Art and the Jacki Apple Fund.Patrisse C ullors is a New York Times bestselling author\, educator\, artist \, and abolitionist from Los Angeles\, CA. Her work has been featured at T he Broad\, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA\, Frieze LA\, The Hammer Museum \, The Fowler and a host of theaters\, galleries\, and museums across the globe. Patrisse has won numerous awards for her art and activism. In 2020 she launched a one of its kind online MFA program at Prescott college. She also launched the Crenshaw Dairy Mart with fellow artists Noé Olivas and Ali Reza Dorriz.
Her current work and practice is focusing on “Abol itionist Aesthetics\,” a term she has advanced and popularized to help cha llenge artists and cultural workers to aestheticize abolition. She has rec ently founded The Center For Art and Abolition- a trailblazing nonprofit o rganization dedicated to empowering abolitionist artists and leveraging th e transformative power of art to catalyze social change. Patrisse’s missio n is to invite all of us to grow towards abolition through intergeneration al healing work that centers love\, collective care\, and art.
Image credit: Ori Whispers Procession\, Fowler Museum\, by Patrick Shao
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