In conjunction with the exhibition Scientia Sexualis, ICA LA offers a three-day convening titled Reckoning and Repair to facilitate deep engagement with the exhibition’s timely themes. The weekend will include dynamic conversations between artists, writers, curators, researchers, and historians committed to in-depth explorations of the intersections of art, sex, and science from the perspectives of trans, feminist, anti-racist, and decolonial studies.
Convening participants include: Panteha Abareshi, Howard Chiang, Jennifer Doyle, Eva Hayward, Candice Lin, Perwana Nazif, El Palomar, P. Staff, and Jeanne Vaccaro
Friday, February 28
6PM-7PM: Reception
7PM–8:30PM: Tour of Scientia Sexualis with co-curators Jennifer Doyle and Jeanne Vaccaro and convening participants
Saturday, March 1
1PM–2:30PM: Candice Lin, artist, and Howard Chiang, Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, Lai Ho & Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies, UC Santa Barbara
3PM–4:30PM: Panteha Abareshi, artist; P. Staff, artist; Jeanne Vaccaro, co-curator Scientia Sexualis
Sunday, March 2
1PM–2:30PM: El Palomar, artists, and Perwana Nazif, independent writer, curator, art director for the Los Angeles Review of Books
3PM–4:30PM: Closing lecture with Eva Hayward, scholar of aesthetics, environmental and science studies, and sexuality studies.
Reckoning and Repair is organized by Scientia Sexualis curators Jennifer Doyle and Jeanne Vaccaro together with ICA LA’s Curatorial and Learning & Engagement teams including Asuka Hisa, Alberto Keossian, Emilia Shaffer-Del Valle and Amanda Sroka.
Lead funding for Scientia Sexualis is provided by the Getty Foundation. Major support for the Your Discipline Undid Me: Reckoning and Repair convening is provided by Terra Foundation for American Art.
Major support for Reckoning and Repair is provided by Terra Foundation for American Art. Additional support provided by a grant from Acción Cultural Española (AC/E). ICA LA is supported by the Curator’s Council and Fieldwork Council.
Lead funding for Scientia Sexualis is provided by the Getty Foundation. The exhibition is also generously funded by Angeles Art Fund, Vera R. Campbell Foundation, Karen Hillenburg, Kelsey Lee Offield and Cole Sternberg, Pasadena Art Alliance, and Laura Donnelley. Additional support provided by Ellen and Bill Taubman.
Major support for the publication is provided by the University of California, Riverside.
ICA LA is supported by the Curator’s Council and Fieldwork Council.
Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries font courtesy GenderFail. Eliza font courtesy Camelot Typeface.
Scientia Sexualis is among more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide, a landmark regional event exploring the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information, please visit pst.art.
In conjunction with the exhibition Scientia Sexualis, ICA LA offers a three-day convening titled Reckoning and Repair to facilitate deep engagement with the exhibition’s timely themes. The weekend will include dynamic conversations between artists, writers, curators, researchers, and historians committed to in-depth explorations of the intersections of art, sex, and science from the perspectives of trans, feminist, anti-racist, and decolonial studies.
Convening participants include: Panteha Abareshi, Howard Chiang, Jennifer Doyle, Eva Hayward, Candice Lin, Perwana Nazif, El Palomar, P. Staff, and Jeanne Vaccaro
Friday, February 28
6PM-7PM: Reception
7PM–8:30PM: Tour of Scientia Sexualis with co-curators Jennifer Doyle and Jeanne Vaccaro and convening participants
Saturday, March 1
1PM–2:30PM: Candice Lin, artist, and Howard Chiang, Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, Lai Ho & Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies, UC Santa Barbara
3PM–4:30PM: Panteha Abareshi, artist; P. Staff, artist; Jeanne Vaccaro, co-curator Scientia Sexualis
Sunday, March 2
1PM–2:30PM: El Palomar, artists, and Perwana Nazif, independent writer, curator, art director for the Los Angeles Review of Books
3PM–4:30PM: Closing lecture with Eva Hayward, scholar of aesthetics, environmental and science studies, and sexuality studies.
Reckoning and Repair is organized by Scientia Sexualis curators Jennifer Doyle and Jeanne Vaccaro together with ICA LA’s Curatorial and Learning & Engagement teams including Asuka Hisa, Alberto Keossian, Emilia Shaffer-Del Valle and Amanda Sroka.
Lead funding for Scientia Sexualis is provided by the Getty Foundation. Major support for the Your Discipline Undid Me: Reckoning and Repair convening is provided by Terra Foundation for American Art.
Major support for Reckoning and Repair is provided by Terra Foundation for American Art. Additional support provided by a grant from Acción Cultural Española (AC/E). ICA LA is supported by the Curator’s Council and Fieldwork Council.
Lead funding for Scientia Sexualis is provided by the Getty Foundation. The exhibition is also generously funded by Angeles Art Fund, Vera R. Campbell Foundation, Karen Hillenburg, Kelsey Lee Offield and Cole Sternberg, Pasadena Art Alliance, and Laura Donnelley. Additional support provided by Ellen and Bill Taubman.
Major support for the publication is provided by the University of California, Riverside.
ICA LA is supported by the Curator’s Council and Fieldwork Council.
Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries font courtesy GenderFail. Eliza font courtesy Camelot Typeface.
Scientia Sexualis is among more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide, a landmark regional event exploring the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information, please visit pst.art.
Panteha Abareshi has an artistic practice rooted in their existence as a chronically ill/disabled body contending with multiple medical illnesses, at the foundation of which is sickle cell zero beta thalassemia- a genetic blood disorder that causes debilitating pain and bodily deterioration, both of which increase with age.Their work explores the complexities of living within a body that is highly monitored, constantly examined, and made to feel like a specimen, critically interrogating the sick/disabled body’s place within medical institutions. Taking images that are recognizable as “human” forms, and reducing them to the gestural is a juxtaposition of Abareshi’s own body’s objectification, and dissection. Through performance work, they pushes their body to, and often beyond, the limits of its ability. In their video work and sculptural installations, Abareshi confronts the able-bodied gaze, and questions notions of consent within the dynamics of power, control and objectification between viewer and disabled body as subject. The radicalized abjectification of the normative corporeal form allows for a rigorous examination of the complexities and hierarchies within loss of ability, and its connection to a larger context of universal fragility fear, pain and mortality.
Currently, Abareshi is focusing on the disabled body as fetish object, and conducting research into disabled sexuality, and its representations within pornography and fetish materials.
Major support for Your Discipline Undid Me: Reckoning and Repair is provided by Terra Foundation for American Art. Additional support provided by a grant from Acción Cultural Española (AC/E). ICA LA is supported by the Curator’s Council and Fieldwork Council.
Lead funding for Scientia Sexualis is provided by the Getty Foundation. The exhibition is also generously funded by Angeles Art Fund, Vera R. Campbell Foundation, Karen Hillenburg, Kelsey Lee Offield and Cole Sternberg, Pasadena Art Alliance, and Laura Donnelley. Additional support provided by Ellen and Bill Taubman.
Major support for the publication is provided by the University of California, Riverside.
ICA LA is supported by the Curator’s Council and Fieldwork Council.
Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries font courtesy GenderFail. Eliza font courtesy Camelot Typeface.
Scientia Sexualis is among more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide, a landmark regional event exploring the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information, please visit pst.art.