ICA Live: Experimental Performance Art Series | San Jose

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ICA Live: Experimental Performance Art Series | San Jose

The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art launched ICA Live!, a new program that includes ongoing presentations of engaging and experimental performance art.

Presented during downtown San Jose’s South First Fridays, ICA Live! seeks to explore the role of the performance art medium in contemporary society. Focus is placed on live, interactive and participatory projects which engage members of the audience and may include experimental sound and sculptural elements.

Friday, April 1, 2016
ICA Live: Experimental Performance Art Series | San Jose

Elizabeth Stephens: In an Instant
Friday, April 1, 7pm
Free and open to the public

For ICA Live! on Friday, April 1, 7pm, the renowned Bay Area performance artist Elizabeth Stephens will perform a spoken word piece that will combine an invitation for the audience to participate in simple breath work while using quotes from Joan Didion’s book, The Year of Magical Thinking. The performance will be in honor of Susan O’Malley in conjunction with the exhibition Susan O’Malley: You Are Exactly Where You Need to Be: Part II.

Elizabeth Stephens is an artist, activist, writer and professor at UC Santa Cruz. Her work explores themes of queerness, feminism and embodied environmentalism and has been shown nationally and internationally. Stephens and her collaborator Annie Sprinkle produced the first feature length queer environmental film Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story. They are the movers and shakers of the ecosex movement, where they hope to make environmental art a little more sexy, fun and diverse. Stephens is a Rydell Fellow and recently completed her Ph.D. at UC Davis in Performance Studies

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