Art and Performance Xandra Ibarra

1 art , performance

1.1 spictacles
1.2 nude laughing
1.3 untitled fucking (a collaboration)
1.4 spic ecdysis

art , performance
spictacles

ibarra performed “spictacles” under moniker of la chica boom 2002 - 2012. spictacles, term coined ibarra, mixed , repurposed traditional mexican iconography alongside racist tropes within erotic , sensual vocabulary of burlesque. 1 example of such performance la tortillera, exhibited in 2004. performance consists of ibarra in “traditional” colorful mexican tortillera garb. although singles out mexican housewife, attire high end or “authentic” mexican restaurants require of women stand in panoptical view of costumers, assuring tortilla’s faux homemade authenticity. performance progresses, ibarra sheds more , more items of clothing, in tradition of burlesque, until dons nothing pasties , tapatío bottle attached strap-on, uses cum on tortilla before consuming it.

nude laughing

xandra ibarra performed nude laughing @ the broad museum in los angeles in 2016, walks nude while laughing throughout museum, dragging nylon sac paradigmatic “white lady accoutrements” . through performance, ibarra uses nudity , sonic quality of laughter explore vexed relation racialized subjects have not one’s own skin, one’s own entanglements , knots (skeins) whiteness , white womanhood. piece inspired john currin s 1998 painting titled laughing nude, features nude white woman face caught in middle of maniacal laughter blurs erotic grotesque. in email huffington post, ibarra explains, want capture can of these white nudes in brown figure , skin , enact union between sound , gesture can t captured within painting. aims bring nudes life in describes wrong body, enhancing grotesque, tactile, , expressive dimensions of how imagines white womanhood.

untitled fucking (a collaboration)

the 2013 video, untitled fucking, collaborative performance work artists xandra ibarra , amber hawk swanson stages queer intercourse between sex acts , speech acts. rodriguez examines video argue feminism needs imagining sexual politics not require abandonment of fun , pleasure. goes on state precisely because our sexual realities steeped in abjection , violence insisting on depictions of sex represent viscous substances of our lives becomes urgent.

spic ecdysis

in photo essay/series spic ecdysis (2014-2015) published women , performance journal, ibarra aligns herself figure of cockroach , dwells within limits given—showing false promise of sheer transformation. term ecdysis means shed, molt, comes ancient greek: ἐκδύω (ekduo), “to take off, strip off.” captures symbolic process of shedding skin of cockroach laying next costumes of former persona la chica boom.