Reminder: Radar Reading at Main Library @ Tue May 7, 2013 6pm - 7pm (Queer Things)

more details » Radar Reading at Main Library at the San Francisco Public Library Latino Hispanic Room, lower level May 7, 2013 6pm- FREE! Xandra Ibarra* Rudy Lemcke* Naima Lowe* Janey Smith Xandra Ibarra is an Oakland-based performance artist, ecdysiast and community organizer from the El Paso/Juarez border that performs under the alias of La Chica Boom. La Chica Boom is a neo-burlesque project that Xandra began in 2002 to performatively question sexual/racial representation, queer formations, and compulsory whiteness. Ibarra's performance work interrogates the spectacular suffering and survival of fixed images/narratives that have reduced Latinidad to an exhaustive list of hollow iconographic symbols. She integrates her prior experience in physical theater, grotesque clowning (bouffon), and burlesque in an attempt to reorganize symbols such as piñatas, virgens, cockroaches, wrestlers, tapatio and border whores. Her work is not about what Latinidad is but about the spectacle of mimetic Latinidad as a disciplined and controlled existence. As a result she considers much of her performance work spic-tacle, in that it focuses on Mexicanidad as a spectacle of degeneracy and power. Ibarra's hope is to perform work that is both against and engaged in the colonial gaze and nostalgia for Latinidad. Rudy Lemcke is a new media artist who lives and works in San Francisco. His work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the DeYoung Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum and recently at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. His video work has been screened in New York, Paris, Mexico City and regionally as part of the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, Frameline and the GLBT History Museum. He has been a guest artist/speaker at the University of California at Berkeley and Santa Cruz, Mills College, San Francisco State University, The San Francisco Art Institute, The California College of Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Naima Lowe is a 34 year old Queer, African-American artist and educator based in Olympia, WA. Her films, videos, performances and writings have been seen at the Athens International Film and Video Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Anthology Film Archive, The Knitting Factory, The Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery, The International Toy Theater Exhibition, and Judson Memorial Church. Her first film, "Birthmarks", was a Student Academy Awards Finalist, won Best Experimental Film at the Newark Black Film Festival and was honored for Best Sound Design in the NextFrame International Student Film Festival. Her collaborative performance and installation Mary and Sarah and You and Me made its New York debut at the historic Judson Memorial Church. She taught video production and film history courses at Temple University, and was on the faculty of Goddard College. She is currently a member of the faculty at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. More information at www.naimalowe.com Janey Smith lives in San Francisco. She is writer of The Snow Poems (2012) and Animals (2011). She is fiction editor at Metazen. She hosts 851, a reading series held at The Squat, an autonomous literary zone located in Lower Haight. Tuesday, May 7th 2013 Hosted with Cookies by Michelle Tea Q+A to follow reading San Francisco Public Library / Main Branch Latino Reading Room / Basement Level 6:00pm / FREE RADAR is generously supported by James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, Friends of the Public Library, California Arts Council, Walter & Elise Haas Fund, San Francisco Arts Commission, Rainbow Grocery Co-Operative, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, Horizons Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation and the San Francisco Foundation. When Tue May 7, 2013 6pm – 7pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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