Live Artists Live: Sings of Freedom

Fri Sep 30 2022 at 10:30 am to 06:30 pm

Roski Master of Fine Arts Gallery/Graduate Fine Arts Building | Los Angeles

USC Visions and Voices
Publisher/HostUSC Visions and Voices
Live Artists Live: Sings of Freedom
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ADMISSION:
Admission is free. RSVP beginning Monday, August 1, at 11 a.m.
DESCRIPTION:
Inspired by poet, writer, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou’s verse, “The caged bird sings of freedom,” the fourth iteration of USC’s biannual performing arts festival celebrates the liberating potentials of art and song. “Live Artists Live: Sings of Freedom” spotlights fusions of performance art, poetry, and music that amplify oppressed voices and resist racism, sexism, xenophobia, and homophobia. The full-day event will bring together internationally acclaimed artists and scholars for vibrant performances, immersive environments, and engaging discussions illuminating marginalized people’s struggles and joys, while striving for social justice through performative, lyrical storytelling, and musical art experiments.
Schedule (subject to change):
10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.: VIRTUAL KEYNOTE by Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo will read poems from her expansive oeuvre, including from her highly acclaimed collection, An American Sunrise, and discuss themes of “Sings of Freedom,” including Indigenous struggle, resistance, and joy. A conversation and Q&A with USC faculty and graduate students will follow.
12 p.m.­–1 p.m.: HYBRID VIRTUAL PRESENTATION of Uroborus vs. Trump’s Wall by Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Guillermo Gómez-Peña will share excerpts from his anthology of recordings from 1978 to 2018, including sound poems, audio art, performance, border poetry, and weird songs performed against Trump’s imaginary border wall.
1 p.m.–2 p.m.: LUNCH
Discussion with visiting guests, USC students, and faculty.
2 p.m.–3 p.m.: MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE/SCREENING of Boney Manilli by Edgar Arceneaux
Edgar Arceneaux will present a multimedia screening and live performance drawn from Boney Manilli, a project exploring 1990s pop duo Milli Vanilli, their public shaming for lip syncing, and how their ridicule, spectacularized through the performers’ long, braided hair and dark skin, resonates in contemporary sociocultural and political spheres. A conversation and Q&A with USC faculty and graduate students will follow.
3 p.m.­–4 p.m.: PERFORMANCE by Xina Xurner (Young Joon Kwak and Marvin Astorga)
Kwak and Astorga will combine power electronics, mutated vocals, and DIY drag to expand ideas about queer and trans bodies in an in-person performance by Xina Xurner, a collaboration aimed at fostering connections between femme and POC communities.
4 p.m.–5:20 p.m.: DISCUSSION AND DJ SET by madison moore and Daphne A. Brooks
madison moore and Daphne A. Brooks will discuss moore’s Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric, which takes readers on a journey through vogue balls, Instagram, nightclubs, and street fashion and positions fabulousness as a radical aesthetic practice, and Brooks’s Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, exploring the intersections of Black feminisms, race, gender, performance, and popular music culture. Their dialogue will be accompanied by moore’s live DJ set featuring a playlist especially curated for the event. Their dialogical lecture will be followed by a conversation and Q&A with USC faculty and graduate students.
5:20 p.m.–6:30 p.m.: RECEPTION AND DANCE PARTY
“Live Artists Live: Sings of Freedom” will culminate in a dance party featuring a playlist by madison moore, and a reception for visiting guests, USC faculty, students, and all participants and guests with refreshments and conversation.
Presented by USC Visions and Voices. Organized by the USC Roski School of Art and Design.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Roski Master of Fine Arts Gallery/Graduate Fine Arts Building, 3001 S Flower St,Los Angeles,CA,United States

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