My Barbarian, Shakuntala DuBois, HD Video, 30 minutes, 2012
My Barbarian
Broke People’s Baroque Peoples’ Theater: Flat Busted Wig Beauty Window Fatale
SEPTEMBER 22 – NOVEMBER 10, 2012
My Barbarian storefront view at Transformer, 2012.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Transformer is proud to launch our fall 2012 exhibition season with LA-Based art collective My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, and Alexandro Segade) who present the latest project in their Broke People’s Baroque Peoples’ Theater series of exhibitions, Flat Busted Wig Beauty Window Fatale, an installation designed for Transformer.
My Barbarian's Broke People’s Baroque Peoples’ Theater, is a series of performances, texts, videos, and installations that highlight the paradoxes of an art practice founded in critique, which nonetheless relies on economic forces that are worthy of serious criticism. In this time of spectacle and disparity, excess and poverty, the baroque figures as an ornate frame that contains all of these extremes. My Barbarian utilizes a variety of styles within this frame: camp drag, baroque opera, communist drama, countercultural performance and world theater.
At Transformer, My Barbarian's new work in this series, Flat Busted Wig Beauty Window Fatale, will include a site-specific window display featuring a bevy of sculptural assemblages that play with artifacts of class, culture, femininity and queerness, creating a baroque wig shop. Additionally, the exhibition will feature videos selected from the Broke Peoples’ Baroque Peoples Theater productions, including “Shakuntala DuBois” and “Object Opera”, to be screened continuously, as well as artistic actions, and other mixed media elements to be incorporated throughout the run of the exhibition.
My Barbarian, Desdemona Obama, Papier-mâché, plaster, spackle, leather, textiles, wigs, wire seashells, 2012
My Barbarian, Hiawatha Boal, Papier-mâché, plaster, spackle, leather, textiles, wig, Styrofoam, tempera, acrylic, feathers, 2012
My Barbarian, Prince Phranc Ocean, Papier-mâché, plaster, spackle, leather, rabbit fur, wig, fake jewelry, 2012
My Barbarian, Absent Vase #1, collage, paper, 2012
My Barbarian, Flat Cats, collage, wood, 2012
My Barbarian, Flat Vase #1, collage, paper, 2012
My Barbarian, Unentitled Portrait #4, charcoal on paper, 2012
My Barbarian, Unentitled Portrait #9, charcoal and colored pencil on paper, 2012
My Barbarian, Hairomancy, HD Video, 5:30 minutes, 2012
EXHIBITION PROGRAMMING
OPENING RECEPTION:
Saturday, September 22, 6 – 8 pm
Transformer
PERFORMANCE: Classical Music Dance Party
Friday, October 12, 5 - 7 pm
Hirshhorn ARTLAB+ (Inside the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden, off Jefferson Drive, SW)
ARTIST TALK:
Saturday, November 10, 4pm, followed by reception
Transformer
Flat Busted Wig Beauty Window Fatale Opening Reception
Flat Busted Wig Beauty Window Fatale Opening Reception
Flat Busted Wig Beauty Window Fatale Opening Reception
Flat Busted Wig Beauty Window Fatale Opening Reception
Classical Music Dance Party w/ Hirshhorn ArtLab+ 10.12.12
Classical Music Dance Party w/ Hirshhorn ArtLab+ 10.12.12
Classical Music Dance Party w/ Hirshhorn ArtLab+ 10.12.12
Classical Music Dance Party w/ Hirshhorn ArtLab+ 10.12.12
Classical Music Dance Party w/ Hirshhorn ArtLab+ 10.12.12
Classical Music Dance Party w/ Hirshhorn ArtLab+ 10.12.12
Classical Music Dance Party w/ Hirshhorn ArtLab+ 10.12.12
Classical Music Dance Party w/ Hirshhorn ArtLab+ 10.12.12
Classical Music Dance Party w/ Hirshhorn ArtLab+ 10.12.12