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Sun, Nov 9, 2008
4:00 PM

Museum as Hub, Floor 5 (directions)

Artist’s Talk: Malik Gaines

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Join Malik Gaines in a gallery talk about My Barbarian’s residency project at the New Museum and their subsequent two-channel video work Post-Living Ante-Action Theater (PoLAAT): Post-Paradise, Sorry Again now on view in the exhibition Museum as Hub: Six Degrees.

During a two-week residency at the New Museum in June 2008, the collective My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, and Alexandro Segade) conducted workshops with a group of local artists, musicians, and actors resulting in the original performance, Post-Paradise, Sorry Now. The video, edited from footage of the workshop and its July stagings, explores the process of collaboration, creation, performance, and agency through the teaching of the five principles of PoLAAT: Estrangement, Indistinction, Suspension of Beliefs, a Mandate to Participate, and Inspirational Critique.

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This discussion is made possible by the Charlotte and Bill Ford Artist Talks Fund.

Museum as Hub is made possible by the Third Millennium Foundation.

Seeds of Tolerance

With additional generous support from Metlife Foundation.

Additional support is provided by the Asian Cultural Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.

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My Barbarian

My Barbarian is a Los Angeles-based performance collective founded in 2000 by Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, and Alexandro Segade. The trio creates and performs in site-specific plays, musical concerts, theatrical situations, and video installations that explore contemporary political challenges by playing out allegorical narratives drawn from history and mythology. My Barbarian has performed and exhibited at REDCAT, the Hammer Museum, MOCA and MAK Center, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Participant, Inc., and Joe’s Pub, New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Aspen Art Museum; the Power Plant, Toronto; De Appel, Amsterdam; Torpedo, Oslo; El Matadero, Madrid; CCA, Tel Aviv; and Galleria Civica, Trento. My Barbarian participated in the 2005 and 2007 Performa Biennials, the 2006 California Biennial, and the 2007 Montreal Biennial.