Don’t miss our amazing line up of artists and performers on Day 3 of “ABUNDANCE”!
On Friday, April 26th from 7-9 PM, join LACE at L.A. Dance Project for performances by Caleb Luna, Vanessa Hernández Cruz, Patrisse Cullors, and Dorian Wood.
“ABUNDANCE” is a call to taking up space with pride, generosity, and a spirit of collectivity. This assembly of artists invites 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.
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Caleb Luna is an artist, public scholar and theorist of the body. They are an award-winning educator and scholar, the bestselling author of REVENGE BODY (Nomadic Press, 2022; Black Lawrence Press, 2023), and co-host of the podcast Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back.
Vanessa Hernández Cruz is an interdependent and interdisciplinary Chicana Disabled dance artist based in Tongva Land/Los Angeles, CA. Her dance, visual artwork, and writings are often woven together to generate works influenced by dark aesthetics, abstractions, experimentation, and storytelling that merges her Chicana Disabled experiences.
Patrisse Cullors is a New York Times bestselling author, educator, artist, and abolitionist from Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been featured at The Broad, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Frieze LA, The Hammer Museum, The Fowler and a host of theaters, galleries, and museums across the globe.
Dorian Wood (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Her intent of “infecting” spaces and ideologies with her artistic practice is born from a desire to challenge traditions and systems that have contributed to the marginalization of people.
You don't want to miss our amazing line up of artists and performers on Day 2 of "ABUNDANCE" ! Link in bio to RSVP.
On Thursday, April 25th from 7-9 PM, join LACE at L.A. Dance Project for performances by Melba Martínez, Alima Lee, Jessica Carolina González, and GayCay.
"ABUNDANCE" is a call to taking up space with pride, generosity, and a spirit of collectivity. This assembly of artists invites 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.
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Melba Martínez is an artist and cultural organizer from Pacoima, CA. Their passion for art, activism, and the fight for the liberation of all oppressed people guide her life and work.
Alima Lee is a transdisciplinary artist from New York City and is currently based between Los Angeles and New York City. Their work examines the human condition and attempts to reclaim their own image.
Jessica Carolina González is an artist from Houston, TX, based in Los Angeles. By collapsing temporalities from a Central American diasporic perspective, she confronts the Estadounidense understanding of ever-present sociopolitical issues embedded within her work.
GayCay began as a nomadic space for experimentation between multidisciplinary artists and partners Edgar Fabián Frías and Thaddeus Pedisich. They create frenzied minimal synthpunk, the likes of DAF, Nitzer Ebb, and Adult.
Introducing our incredible line up of artists and performers for Day 1 of "ABUNDANCE"!
On Wednesday, April 24th from 7-9 PM, join LACE at L.A. Dance Project for performances by Yesika Salgado, Edgar Fabián Frías, Ghis Rodríguez, and Cody Perkins.
"ABUNDANCE" is a call to taking up space with pride, generosity, and a spirit of collectivity. This assembly of artists invites 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.
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Yesika Salgado is a Los Angeles-based Salvadoran poet who writes about her family, her culture, her city, and her fat body. Salgado is a two time National Poetry Slam finalist and the recipient of the 2020 International Latino Book Award in Poetry.
Edgar Fabián Frías is a multidisciplinary artist, psychotherapist, educator, curator, and brujx based in Los Angeles. With a passion for breaking boundaries and creating new forms of knowledge, Frías blends diverse artistic disciplines to produce thought-provoking and immersive works of art that transcend conventional categories.
Ghis Rodríguez (Tijuana, Baja California, 1993) is a visual artist, educator, and arts administrator. She founded Tierras Seminario de Arte (2022), and has a B.A. in Visual Arts from the University of Baja California (UABC, 2021), including an exchange program at the National School of Visual Arts in Mexico City (ENAP, 2019–2020).
Cody Perkins (also known as Algorythm.Code) is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Sylmar, CA. He attended the Alexander Hamilton Music Academy as a Performance and Electronic Music major and continued his studies with a focus on photography and audio engineering at Cal State Dominguez Hills.
