¡ Acciones alegres ! / Performance celebrations !: Experimentos en Alegría / Experiments in Joy –

Saturday, July 12, 6–7:30PM
FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA CA 90065
Info on our space hereSaturday, July 12, 4–7:30PM
Performance capacity: 50
Free

Come activate joy with Experimentos en Alegría / Experiments in Joy, transforming joy from feeling to practice with prrformance celebrations by Civil, Magallanes, and Megha Jairaj. ¡ All are welcome!

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Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit, MI. Her series of performance memoirs, a chronicle of performance body, includes Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019), (ghost gestures) (2021), the déjà vu (2022) and In & Out of Place (2024). She organized and compiled Experiments in Joy: A Workbook (2019) and coordinated the translation for Experimentos en Alegría (2023) published by Co-Conspirator Press. Foundress of The Black Weirdo School, she teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space.

Daisy Elizeth Magallanes (She/They) is the proud Chicana daughter of migrant parents from the sacred Caxcan land of Tlaltenango, Zacatecas. She is a Pushcart Nominated writer, translator, and educator whose work has been featured in Acid Verse Literary Journal, Brevity, the Black Warrior Review, Brooklyn & Boyle, Huizache, & Hypertext Review. Their poetry has been internationally recognized and exhibited in CDMX. They are currently the Managing Editor at Huizache which advocates for and platforms the new literary vanguard.

Megha Jairaj is a transdisciplinary artist from Kerala, working toward the collaborative repair of interpersonal structures caught between caste, capital, and carcerality.

Awilda Rodríguez Lora is a performance choreographer and cultural entrepreneur. She challenges in her work the concepts of woman, sexuality, and self-determination. These concepts are explored through the use of movement, sound, and video as well as through literal instantiations of an “economy of living” that either potentiates or subtracts from her body’s “value” in the contemporary art market. Born in Mexico, raised in Puerto Rico, and working in-between North and South America and the Caribbean, Rodríguez Lora's performances traverse multiple geographic histories and realities. In this way, her work promotes progressive dialogues regarding hemispheric colonial legacies, and the unstable categories of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Rodríguez Lora has been an invited guest artist at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD), New York University, the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Dance Center, and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), among others. Her solo work has been recently featured at DEFORMES Performance Biennale (Chile), Posta Sur Performance Encounter (Chile), Independence Dom (Dominican Republic) and the Miami International Performance Art Festival (USA).

Rodríguez Lora is currently the founding collaborator of La Rosario in Santurce, where she is creating, researching, and producing her life project, La Mujer Maravilla, while developing new strategies for the sustainability of live arts in Puerto Rico. After more than ten years of work as a fully independent artist, she is committed to further studying how artistic economies can be harnessed to support alternative forms of life rooted in communality, creativity, and social justice. She is also the Academic Leader for the Dance Program at the Universidad de Sagrado Corazón