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Radio Imagination: Artists and Writers in the Archive of Octavia E. Butler, Edited by Janet Duckworth and Savannah Wood, Foreword by Julia Meltzer, Clockshop, Los Angeles, CA, 2018. Contributions by Tisa Bryant, Lynell George, Robin Coste Lewis, and Fred Moten, and artworks by Laylah Ali, Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade, Lauren Halsey, Mendi + Keith Obadike, and Connie Samaras

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Sereno: The Nightwatchman has some fantastic visuals and a cool pop-serial style

Sereno: The Nightwatchman has some fantastic visuals and a cool pop-serial style #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel #ncbd

Meet SERENO, the Mystic Master of Light and guardian of New Teia, a city where magic and science intertwine by night! An avatar of collective Paranoia, a shepherd of Nightmares, and a Cult of Hate are just the start of an evil conspiracy transforming the city. Can Sereno fight back while keeping super cat burglar Rufián from stealing… his heart? Story: Luciano VecchioArt: Luciano VecchioEnglish…

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My Barbarian, Standelabra 3 (3-Headed Oracle), 2021. Mixed media, 72 1/4 × 46 1/2 × 10 in. | 183.52 × 118.11 × 25.4 cm. (Source: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles)

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My Barbarian

Edited by Adrienne Edwards, Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade.

Design by Alexandro Segade.

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Two Sheds- You Get To Me

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (6/1-6/4/17)-

Thursday

Both MOCA locations are free from 5-8pm tonight. At MOCA Grand Avenue there will be a discussion of the influx of art galleries and artist run spaces in Boyle Heights and adjacent areas, with artist collective Ultra-red, Leslie Berestein Rojas- KPCC’s immigration and emerging communities reporter, and Eric Avila, urban cultural historian and professor of Chicano Studies and Urban Planning at UCLA.

Springtime Carnivore are playing at the Bootleg Theater with Cones and BUZZY

As part of the Tip of Her Tongue series, The Broad is hosting Alexandro Segades' multimedia theater performance Future St., described as "a science fiction saga about corporate boy bands and holographic newscasters crowd controlling a society of clones" and explores "desire, surveillance, and the sinister forces of normalization". ($25, also a performance on Friday)

Mount Kimbie are playing at the El Rey Theatre

Flint Eastwood is opening for FLETCHER at The Echo

Durand Jones & The Indications are playing at Resident

Friday

Two Sheds are opening for Blake Hazard (of The Submarines) at Resident

Pasadena Museum of California Art is having an extended free Friday to celebrate its 15th birthday with events throughout the day and evening including readings from authors from the Red Hen Press, spotlight talks, and on the third floor terrace The Astral Plane will be DJ'ing and there will be complimentary drinks and snacks provided

Happyness are playing at the Bootleg Theater with BOYO

Friday and Saturday

i3 Arts Fest is taking place at three locations downtown tonight and tomorrow. Interaction Park is taking place in Grand Park and will have large scale interactive art installations and live music that includes The Gaslamp Killer and Mike G from Odd Future (free). Immersion Square at Pershing Square is Saturday's ticketed event with DJs and art cars ($40 advanced tickets), and Innovation Plaza at Grand Performances on Friday and Saturday will have a free performance by William Close and the Earth Harp Collective. (The Earth Harp is the world's longest stringed musical instrument)

Saturday

At the REDCAT Gallery, filmmaker Khadim Dai will be presenting a selection of his videos and discussing his approach to documenting the refugee journey and his daily life (he has been a refugee for most of his life, first escaping Afghanistan due to persecution by the Taliban as a member of the Hazara minority). The presentation is part of  It is obvious from the map, REDCAT's current exhibit (closing 6/4) that "examines the role of maps and map-making in the movements of large numbers of people from the conflict zones of the Middle East and Africa toward Europe". The exhibit includes work from Djordje Balmazovic from Škart collective who, together with the NGO Grupa 484, have been making maps in collaboration with migrants in refugee camps across Serbia, retracing their westbound journeys (*note-I just recently saw some of these at Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Newcastle, UK and they are engrossing)

Artist Pippa Garner will be in conversation with writer/curator Laura Fried at Redling Fine Art with a short performance to follow

At The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Dog Star 13 (part of The Dog Star Orchestra experimental music festival) will be having a concert (free with museum admission)

Soundpedro is having a free "ear-oriented multi-sensory event" at Angels Gate Cultural Center

KCRW's Summer Nights starts this weekend with Chico Mann and Captain Planet performing for free in the One Colorado courtyard

Avi Buffalo is playing with Dante Elephante and Rufrano at The Echo

Sunday

As part of The Dog Star Orchestra experimental music festival, artist $3.33 (Celia Hollander) will be performing Air Out at Bowtie Project. It features three performers in three parked cars using car stereos and a mobile audience to "adapt an iconic symbol of isolation as a form to explore openness, harmony, and synchronicity" ($5)

Los Angeles Film Forum is hosting The Site of Memory: Enframed Histories as Ritual at The Egyptian Theater, "a cursory look at Black women film and video artists from or working in Southern California" with filmmakers dana washington and Suné Woods, and curators Jheanelle Brown and Darol Olu Kae present to discuss the work

Elvis Costello and The Imposters are playing at The Greek Theatre

Tigers Jaw, Saintseneca, and Smidley are playing at The Regent Theater

Dead Soft are opening for Goon at The Hi Hat

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Pre-order is now available for our new 140-page catalog, Radio Imagination: Artists and Writers in the Archive of Octavia E. Butler. Orders will ship by April 16.

Radio Imagination documents Clockshop’s yearlong celebration of the life and work of science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler.

This limited edition catalog marks the first publication of Clockshop-commissioned poetry and creative nonfiction by Tisa Bryant, Lynell George, Robin Coste Lewis, and Fred Moten, and highlights works in many mediums by Laylah Ali, Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade, Lauren Halsey, Mendi + Keith Obadike, and Connie Samaras. The catalog also includes an unprecedented number of images from the Octavia E. Butler Collection, courtesy of the @huntingtonlibrary and the Estate of Octavia E. Butler.

Cover photo: Patti Perret

Learn more about Clockshop’s yearlong program here.

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The Fall Of The Death Cult

Ephemerist: The Fall Of The Death Cult

In May, 2020 conceptual artist and educator Alexandro Segade published his 96-page graphic novel, The Context, a concept-heavy space opera steeped in super-hero lore featuring six powerful beings who somehow connect in a lifeless void. Borrowing elements from critical theory and conceptual art, the story switches between eroticised fight scenes and philosophical exposés. The characters from the…

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My comic Sereno is NOW available on @comiXology Submit! #cXSubmit https://bit.ly/2XQL6Bi

A superhero tale with a queer lead: SERENO is the Paladin of the Photon, a Warrior of Light, both physical and spiritual. As the Nightwatchman of Nueva Teia, he protects the HyperCity where Everything Happens from the villains and monsters who rise after twilight.

Sereno is my first completed long work as writer/artist, this volume was originally made as a weekly webcomic in Argentina between 2014 and 2016 as part of the collective Tótem Comics, all of which contents are available for free in Spanish at www.totemcomics.com.ar

Being mainly a comic artist collaborating with writers, I don’t get to explore my writer dimension as much as I’d like, so given the chance I had to make it count. SERENO is the superhero I wish I had growing up and didn’t exist, not just as a queer lead but as a male hero using the emotional spectrum as a tool rather than strenght as weapon.

The Magical Girl archetype applied to a boy, in a technofuturist enviroment. “Sailor Moon meets Batman Beyond”.

And in a way this is a book about villains and what happens in the contrast of the duels. These guys have been haunting me again lately.

Being in lockdown and having my workflow affected by the industry pause and delays, I used the chance to finally correct, reletter and have this comic available for English readers. Infinite thanks to Alexandro Segade for correcting the translation and suggesting I keep the original character names as a proud mark of this comic’s Latinamerican roots.

I hope you enjoy and thank you for reading!

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On November 6, 2016, High Line Art hosted an afternoon of readings and performances in response to Zoe Leonard’s I want a president (1992), which is on view on the western pillar of The Standard, High Line, through March 2017. 

Readings and performances were presented by Morgan Bassichis, Justin Vivian Bond, Nath Ann Carrera, Mel Elberg, Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade, Sharon Hayes, Layli Long Soldier, Fred Moten, Eileen Myles, Pamela Sneed, and Wu Tsang. You can watch the full program here!

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The open letter is republished in full below:

We stand in solidarity with the New Museum Union.

We are troubled by New Museum leadership’s decision to hire an anti-union firm to sow fear and hostility and to misinform both management and staff about the role of unions in the workplace. Intimidation and misinformation do not constitute open engagement with the Museum employees. Moreover, such behavior goes against everything that the Museum has historically stood for—that is, equity, diversity, and a commitment to institutional responsibility.

We implore New Museum leadership to do the right thing and allow their employees to form a union without interference. We also urge leadership to bargain with the New Museum Union in good faith for a fair contract. Your coworkers are not simply union supporters but devoted colleagues who deeply love and believe in the institution and are fully committed to its future.

Signed:

Julie Ault, Artist

Andy Bichlbaum, the Yes Men

Claire Bishop, Professor, PhD Program in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center

Hannah Black, Artist

Nayland Blake, Artist, Chair ICP-Bard MFA

Jennifer Bolande, Professor, New Genres, UCLA Dept. of Art

Justin Vivian Bond, Transgenre Artist

Gregg Bordowitz, Artist

A.K. Burns, Artist

Paul Chan, Artist

Howie Chen, Curator

Liz Collins, Artist

Leah DeVun, Associate Professor, Rutgers University (Member, AAUP-AFT Local 06323)

Kimberly Drew, Writer and Independent Curator

Andrea Fraser, Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Art

Malik Gaines, Artist

Liam Gillick, Artist

The Guerrilla Girls, Artists

Miguel Gutierrez, Artist

House of Ladosha

Sharon Hayes, Artist

Katherine Hubbard, Artist

Juliana Huxtable, Artist

David Joselit, Distinguished Professor, PhD Program in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center

Alhena Katsof, Curator

Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Artist and Writer

Nicole Killian, Artist and Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University

Devin Kenny, Artist

Kate Kraczon, Curator

Molly Larkey, Artist

Simon Leung, Artist and Professor of Art, UC Irvine

Monica Majoli, Artist and Professor, UC Irvine

Yong Soon Min, Professor Emerita, UC Irvine

Fred Moten, Professor, New York University

Carlos Motta, Artist

Gala Porras-Kim, Artist

R.H. Quaytman, Artist

Halsey Rodman, Artist; Co-Chair of Sculpture, Bard MFA; Critic, Yale School of Art, Painting and Printmaking

Martha Rosler, Artist

Alexandro Segade, Artist

Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Artist; Visiting Artist Faculty, California Institute for the Arts and

Bard Summer MFA

Gregory Sholette, PhD, Professor, Queens College Art Dept, CUNY

Patrick Staff, Artist

Eric A. Stanley, Assistant Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley

A.L. Steiner, Artist

Eric Golo Stone, Writer, Artist, and Curator

Lincoln Tobier, Artist, Otis College of Art and Design / SEIU Local 721

Mariana Valencia, Artist

Chris E. Vargas, Artist

Anton Vidokle, Artist and Founder of e-flux

Matt Wolf, Filmmaker

Yellow Jackets Collective

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Whitney Museum Presents My Barbarian

Whitney Museum Presents My Barbarian

Double Agency portrait, 2015. Photograph by Robbie Acklen. October 29, 2021—February 27, 2022 For two decades, the members of My Barbarian—Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, and Alexandro Segade—have used performance to theatricalize social issues, adapting narratives from modern plays, historical texts, and mass media into structures for their performances. On the occasion of their twentieth…

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#repost @alexandro_segade Alexandro Segade (New York City).  “Goku, Sleeping” 

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Spreads from 'Alexandro Segade: The Context' from @primaryinfo⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Drawing on critical theory, minimalism, constructivism and more, Alexandro Segade reimagines the superhero comic book as a queer parable of belonging.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ A graphic novel by NY-based artist and My Barbarian member Alexandro Segade, 'The Context' follows six powerful beings from different worlds who find themselves inexplicably adrift together in an otherwise lifeless void: Biopower, Cathexis, Barelife, Objector, Drives and Form. The characters, each named for a concept drawn from critical theory, engage one another in skintight fight scenes that often look like sex scenes, and philosophical debates masked as exposition.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ As a lifelong fan and a more recent critic of the superhero genre, Segade approached his first graphic novel as a solo performance, acting out all the roles: writer, penciller, inker, colorist and letterer. 'The Context' considers the form of the graphic novel through conceptual, minimalist, op art and constructivist aesthetics, while paying homage to the great cosmic comics of the 1970s and ’80s: Silver Surfer, Legion of Super Heroes, Green Lantern, Adam Warlock and X-Men.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Please order from your local independent #bookstorehero — many are still shipping or offering curbside pickup! You can also order from local independents via @bookshop_org or #indiebound⁠⁠⁠⠀⁠⠀⁠⠀⁠⠀⁠⠀⁠⠀⁠⠀⁠⠀⁠⠀ Or order directly from @artbookps1 @artbookhwla or artbook.com.⁠⠀⁠⠀⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ @alexandro_segade @mybarbarian #alexandrosegade #pride #lgbtq https://www.instagram.com/p/CB01b0vJrjM/?igshid=1s15lqk264dtl

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My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, and Alexandro Segade, based in New York City and Los Angeles), Standalabra V (Gamorrah Mega-Bod), 2023. Metal, textiles, plastic, gold leaf, wigs, tambourine, 72 x 48 x 24 in. | 182.88 x 121.92 x 60.96 cm. 

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postcards from the edge — backdrops & elements for the sci-fi saga Future St. by Alexandro Segade 🎆 premiering this weekend at the Fischer Center #werewatching #futurest #pinchandzoom (at Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts)

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Clonofornication: On Alexandro Segade’s ‘Future St.’ Performance Piece at the Broad Museum

Clonofornication: On Alexandro Segade’s ‘Future St.’ Performance Piece at the Broad Museum

Future St., a multimedia theater work by Alexandro Segade performed at the Broad museum in Los Angeles last week, opened with a euphoric presentation of propaganda for a future state called Clonofornia. Holograms appeared on screens as a leader from … Read More Read entire story.

Source: ARTnews