Nonlinear Groover, 2024
This performance was a part of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)”s ABUNDANCE Performance series which took place at Los Angeles Dance Project on Wednesday, April 24, 2024.
ABUNDANCE presented cutting edge performance art and interdisciplinary work by artists whose lived experiences as non-traditional or fat bodies challenged intersectional forms of oppression. ABUNDANCE was a call to taking up space with pride, generosity, and a spirit of collectivity. This assembly of artists invited the public to witness and participate in the reclamation of our own plentiful bodies: disrupting the status quo and forging liberatory ways of being through community.
Held over three days at L.A. Dance Project, ABUNDANCE included re-stagings and new work by performance, sound, and literary artists Patrisse Cullors with Ashley Blakeney and Darius Williams, Edgar Fabián Frías, GayCay, Jessica Carolina González, Vanessa Hernández Cruz, Alima Lee, Caleb Luna, Melba Martínez, Cody Perkins with Sabrina Johnson, Ghis Rodríguez, Yesika Salgado, and Dorian Wood. Responding to the word “abundance,” these artists examined the politics of their existence through the way they saw and experienced the world, with abundant, generous, humorous, joyful, or rageful entry points that put our collective and individual biases into question. Two Fat Girls Press (@twofatgirlspress) were onsite offering a selection of zines available for purchase.
Documentation is courtesy of the artist and LACE. Photographer: Angel Origgi.
