Zackary Drucker is an independent artist, cultural producer, and trans woman who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality, and seeing. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, and SF MoMA, among others. Drucker is an Emmy-nominated Producer for the docu-series This Is Me, as well as a Producer on Golden Globe and Emmy-winning Transparent.

We Are Family is an endurance public performance where Thinh Nguyen jogs around the Los Angeles State Historic Park with a flag made out of silver thermo blanket which states, "We Are Family." The performance is ignited by the refugee crisis in Europe and at the US border. It is a reminder that although we come from different families, we all are related and belong to one human family.

Thinh Nguyen is a multidisciplinary artist who investigates the intersections of cultural values. Utilizing various media, xe explores and exposes oppressive social conditioning around race, gender, sexuality, and belief systems. Nguyen performed and exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at The Hammer Museum, REDCAT, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and Human Resources. Xe presented interventions at The New Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Xe work has been written in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, LA Weekly, Hyperallergic, Artillery and numerous online forums. Nguyen holds a BFA in drawing and painting from Cal State Fullerton and an MFA in interdisciplinary studies from Claremont Graduate University. Xe is a first-generation immigrant from Viet Nam, currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Yozmit is a Los Angeles based singer song writer, visual, performance artist.

Through the ritualistic performance art, Yozmit combines theater, dance, pop culture, fashion, gender identity, mythology and shamanism onto a single canvas. She sees her art as a form of research that helps define the unknown mysteries of her universe.

She is currently working on ‘Do You’ - music/fashion/performance art campaign which uses the imagery and a ‘Pop Star’ iconography of contemporary stardom as a vehicle for engagement towards our own path of self-discovery with the intention of reminding everyone that we all are ‘Star Seed’. Yozmit utilizes her art that is presented to a mainstream audience as a medium for the healing of the human consciousness.

Yozmit has been a headliner avant-garde vaudeville artist at The Box in New York, London. Her work is also been shown at The Queen’s Museum, Art Basel, Life Ball, Sleep No More, Supper Club, Queen of the Night, Joyce Soho, Lincoln Center, Redcat, Movement Research at The Judson Church, St. Marks Church, Dixon Place, Joe’s Pub, Webster Hall, Galapagos Art Space, ChunCheon International Mime Festival, Doma International Art Festival, Coachella, Burning Man, Lucidity Festival, Portal To The New Earth, Hotel Americano, Standard Hotel, Modrian Hotel and other various venues in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, London, Paris, Ibiza, Berlin, Vienna, Sofia and Seoul.

Xina Xurner (Marvin Astorga + Young Joon Kwak) are Los Angeles-based artists, performers, and collaborators. In 2012, they founded Mutant Salon, a roving salon/platform for collaborative performance and community- building that strives to foster connections between queer, trans, femme, POC, and mutant communities. In addition, Astorga and Kwak perform as Xina Xurner, an experimental music/performance collaboration whose cathartic performances combine DIY and power electronics, mutated vocals, and bad drag to expand ideas about queer and trans bodies. Past collaborative performances and exhibitions include: Commonwealth & Council, REDCAT, Honor Fraser Gallery, The Broad, The Smell, the Hammer Museum, LACE, Los Angeles; Southern Exposure, San Francisco; Bath Salts, New York City; Bitchpork, Chicago; and international performances in Paris, Tokyo, Seoul, Bogota, and Mexico City.

Ain’t I’ma Snatch   

by a post apocalyptic, Black Indigenous,  Femme Liberation Artist Collective

#SNATCHPOWER is deliberate and fearless. We are diverse in how we define ourselves in terms of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, political affiliation, and religion, but united in our commitment to self-definition, self-expression, self-governance, and non-hierarchical collaboration. We endeavor to subvert the hegemonic mainstream through radical (feminist, Afro-futuristic, queer) artistic expression. In coming together to harness the transformative power of this creative energy, we can and will #SNATCHPOWER from those who try to oppress ours.

Members performing this evening:

Upper left: Medulla Oblongata, The Uhuruverse, Sarah Gail

Lower Left: Davia Spain, Ayotunde Osareme, sondriaWRITES

Amitis Motevalli is an artist born in Iran. She explores the cultural resistance and survival of people living in poverty, conflict and war. Her experience as a working-class trans-national migrant, is foundational to her drive for creating art. Through many mediums including, sculpture, video, performance and collaborative public art, her work juxtaposes iconography through iconoclasm, asking questions about violence, domination, occupation and the path to decolonization, while invoking the significance of a secular grassroots struggle. Motevalli is invested in research, collaboration, and the potential of art to expand thought. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, exhibiting art internationally as well as organizing to create an active and resistant cultural discourse through information exchange, either in art, pedagogy or organizing artist and educators.

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Daytime Talk Show: We long to understand, we want to think ourselves tolerant, yet we still have so many dumb lingering questions.

bitchface is an experimental audio project by Nicole Kelly and Phoebe Unter. NK & Phoebe also produce publications, live events, and a podcast, and have been residents at the Women’s Center for Creative Work and This Will Take Time. More sounds on bitchfacepodcast.com .

Letdown, 2018, invites participants to act as surrogate agents for continuously devolving states of compromise and continuously evolving states of inspiration.

Artist, educator, agitator, and emotional laborer, Christy Roberts Berkowitz, composes experiences, images, and objects that attempt to reconcile the intersections of resistance and escapism, expectation and failure, subject and object, community and individualism. A third generation Southern Californian, Christy Roberts Berkowitz holds Bachelor Degrees in Philosophy and Religion, a BFA in Studio Art, and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. She is an Associate Professor in the Riverside Community College District & at the University of La Verne, and has organized in/with/at: CURRENT LA, KCHUNG, Glitzer, The California Poppy Collective, Problematic Radio, The Los Angeles Dept. of Cultural Affairs, MOCA Los Angeles, The Getty Museum, The Telfair Museum, The Chrysler Museum, REDCAT, The Hammer Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Orange County Museum of Art, The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Human Resources, Perform Chinatown, Eastside International Los Angeles, The Women’s Center for Creative Work, The Institute 4 Labor Generosity Workers and Uniforms, Summercamp’s ProjectProject, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Greene Exhibitions, among many others. Roberts Berkowitz has written for Art21 Magazine, Citizens of Culture, Undo Magazine, and was one of LA Weekly’s Best of LA People, 2012.

Las Fotos Project and Elana Mann will be creating a custom photo booth where audience members can amplify their own thoughts on gender and equality.

Las Fotos Project  is a community-based nonprofit organization that inspires teenage girls through photography, mentorship, and self-expression. Offering year-round programming, we provide girls with access to professional cameras, quality instruction and workshops that encourage them to explore their identity, learn about new cultures, build leadership and advocacy skills, and strengthen their social and emotional well-being. Every year they mentor hundreds of girls from communities across Los Angeles.

Arts education fosters creativity, communication, critical thinking, and collaboration, skills needed to compete in a twenty-first century workforce. Studies affirm students who participate in the arts “develop the ability to innovate, communicate, and collaborate. Arts education in schools increases test scores across every subject area, lowers dropout rates and helps close the achievement gap regardless of  socioeconomic status.” (California Alliance for Arts Education)

STUDENTS: Las Fotos Project students are teenage girls between the ages of 11-18, from low to middle-income households living in communities of color, who do not have access to photography equipment or art-based programs. Students are referred to Las Fotos Project by our partners and are identified by having an interest in photography or likely benefiting from our programs.

Las Fotos Project