LAX FESTIVAL at Automata:
GABRIELLE CIVIL
October 14 & 15, 2023
AUTOMATA is thrilled to be a site for two weekends of performance as part of The Live Arts Exchange [LAX] Festival, an electrifying showcase of L.A. based contemporary dance, theater, music, and cross-genre performance artists. A project of Los Angeles Performance Practice (LAPP), the LAX Festival takes place September 29 - November 4, 2023 across a constellation of Los Angeles venues, including Automata, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT), L.A. Dance Project, and The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).
The LAX Festival has a range of ticket prices available for each performance, starting at $14 with their Community Tickets, made possible through their generous supporters. For more information about the full LAX festival, click HERE
Gabrielle Civil
BLACK WEIRDO SCHOOL (POP-UP CRITIQUE)
Saturday, October 14 - 8:00 pm & Sunday, October 15 - 2:30 pm at Automata
Saturday, October 14 - 8:00 pm & Sunday, October 15 - 2:30 pm at Automata
Join Gabrielle Civil to witness, experiment, study, and play with other artists/creatives/weirdos. Part workshop, part ritual, part improvisation, this show will activate instant art education and recharge creative energy. TICKETS / INFO
In need of an ART BOOST with a jolt of BLACK FEMINISM? Join Gabrielle Civil in Black Weirdo School (Pop Up Critique)! There you will witness, experiment, study, and play with other artists/creatives/weirdos. Make sure to bring a LIVING OBJECT with you—something representing your creative practice, something you are willing to have witnessed and appreciated, something suitable for the classroom! Part workshop, part ritual, part improvisation, this show will activate instant art education and recharge your CREATIVE ENERGY.
About the Artist:
Gabrielle Civil (She/Her) is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit, MI. She has premiered over fifty solo and collaborative performances around the world including Murmurations (2023), Translated Bodies (2023), the déjà vu—live (2022) and Jupiter (2021). Her performance memoirs include Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019), (ghost gestures) (2021), and the déjà vu (2022). Her writing has also appeared in New Daughters of Africa, Kitchen Table Translation, Migrating Pedagogies, DanceNotes, and Experiments in Joy: a Workbook. Her performance stills and videos have been exhibited online and in California, Ohio, Minnesota, Brazil, and Mexico where she lived as a Fulbright Fellow. In 2023, she served as a Performance Fellow at Franconia Sculpture Park in Fraser, MN and as an Artist-in-Residence at Automata Arts in Los Angeles. She teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space.
At:
Automata
504 Chung King Court
Los Angeles, CA 90012