The Role of the Artist

Xandra Ibarra

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Online Event

7:00pm

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Tuesday, November 17th we will be hosting the next event in 'The Role of the Artist' with artist Xandra Ibarra.

Xandra Ibarra, who has sometimes worked under the alias of La Chica Boom, is a performance artist, activist, and educator. Ibarra works across video, sculpture and performance to explore abjection and joy and the borders between proper and improper racial, gender, and queer subject.She is based in Oakland, California.

Zoom link: https://huntercollege.zoom.us/j/89565290761?pwd=Ykw3MThqR092NzdibmhFdU5ocis1QT09

This event will be co-moderated with SiSi Chen & Sydney Shavers.
The Role of the Artist is an experimental lecture series where we pose one question to invitees: ‘What is the role of the artist when the world has (always) been on fire?’. This series invites artists to respond in whatever way they see fit. This could be diving into their archive, showing no images at all, a performative reply or something else.

Ibarra’s work has been featured at El Museo de Arte Contemporañeo (Bogotá, Colombia), Broad Museum (LA), ExTeresa Arte Actual (DF, Mexico), The Leslie-Lohman Museum (NYC) and Anderson Collection (Stanford) to name a few. She has been awarded the Lucas Visual Arts Fellowship, Queer Art Prize for Recent Work, Art Matters Grant, NALAC Fund for the Arts, Eisner Film and Video Prize, Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Award and the Franklin Furnace Performance and Variable Media Award

As a community organizer, Ibarra’s work is located within feminist anti-rape and prison abolitionist movements. Since 2003, she has actively participated in organizing with INCITE!, a national feminist of color organization dedicated to creating interventions at the intersection of state and interpersonal violence. As a lecturer, Ibarra has taught Ethnic Studies, Sexuality Studies, and History and Theory of Contemporary Art Courses.

Xandra Ibarra, Nude Laughing, 2016, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Photograph by Walter Wlodarczyk