The Coaxial Arts Foundation Spring 2024 Membership Drive + Fundraiser has begun!

Become A Member or Make A One-Time to help us reach our fundraising goal of $60,000 and keep the doors open, cover overhead costs, and continue supporting underrepresented artists for another year. 

 

 

Coaxial Arts Foundation marks its 9th anniversary, a testament to our unwavering commitment to nurturing creativity in Los Angeles! Yet, amidst our celebration, a pressing challenge has arisen. We did not secure two of the vital grants that have sustained us in recent years. This setback leaves a significant void, one that only your support can fill.

Your membership is more than a contribution; it's a lifeline for our community. It fuels our ability to sustain our space, compensate our dedicated team, and empower our talented artists. Every member strengthens our position, increasing our chances of securing more crucial grant funding in the future.

For as little as $1 per month, you can help us safeguard Coaxial's legacy for another year. As a token of our appreciation, we offer exclusive perks and heartfelt thank-you gifts to our cherished supporters.

Help sustain this thriving community. Your involvement is not just wanted; it's essential. Together, let's make a lasting impact on the creative landscape of Los Angeles.

We love and need you!

-Coaxial Arts

March 2024 Artist in Residence: Dulce Soledad Ibarra — i wanna sleep forever

Dulce Soledad Ibarra

Coaxial Arts Foundation is thrilled to announce LA-based multidisciplinary artist Dulce Soledad Ibarra as our March  2024 Artist in Residence.

 

Installation Opening
Sunday, March 17th | 4:00PM - 6:00PM

Performances
Saturday, March 23rd | 4:00PM - 6:00PM

Gallery Hours
March 21st, 23rd, and 24th | 1:00PM - 4:00PM

*Mask wearing is required throughout the run of this exhibition and related events. N/95, KN/95 & Surgical masks are suggested and provided.

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i wanna sleep forever performance night

 

 

It was an unimaginable feat, an allegory, one in which a short, undocumented Mexican woman managed to kill a federally protected bird of prey with a rock in the Inland Empire. Even though she killed the hawk, it had done its damage and left a rabbit, headless, in its tracks. She, on the other hand, remained stuck, in perpetual fright, knowing that she had killed an American bird of prey with rights unlike her. This fright transcended into susto, a folk illness recognized by Latinx people of causing one’s soul to leave their body and it is an illness that is passed down to future generations. The inheritance of susto that swims through the blood of their family, is what artist Dulce Soledad Ibarra explores in their solo exhibition, i wanna sleep forever. 

 

In this exhibition, they conjure up a personal mythology of this story using ceramic, sound, and performance. As they question and uncover the inheritance of susto, they learn how to delve into recesses of perpetual fright. While it is an incurable condition using the limitations and “rational” of western medicine, some Latinx communities believe that in order to heal susto, they must pray. Through a passed down lullaby in an unknown indigenous language, Ibarra works to heal their family lineage in musical prayer—an oral history that is remembered and translated differently by each of their siblings. This song becomes a way to not only heal from the susto, but also a means of a collective re-membering, a mode to link the past to the present, and heal for the future.

-Words by Christal Pérez

Dulce Soledad Ibarra Sculpture

Dulce Soledad Ibarra (they/them/theirs) is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, educator, and curator with investments in community and identity-emphasized arts and opportunity. As a practicing artist, Ibarra discusses issues and narration of generational guilt, identity, class, labor, displacement, and injustice in sculptures, videos, installations, performances, and participatory work. Looking through queer Xicanx perspective, the work is fueled by emotional labor, personal mythologies, and cultural research, and a strong interest in place-making and narrative-building. Much of Ibarra's work centers around the aesthetics and resilience of the Piñata/Party Supply District of Downtown Los Angeles, engaging in the means of sustaining as a community of businesses and as a place of cultural familiarities and commodities. Ibarra has exhibited, screened, performed, and programmed at venues across Southern California and beyond, including Angels Gate Cultural Center, Charlie James Gallery, Consulado General de México en Los Ángeles, Craft Contemporary, Echo Park Film Center, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Human Resources Los Angeles, ONE Gallery in West Hollywood, and Pieter Performance Space, among others. Ibarra holds an MFA from the University of Southern California and earned a BFA in Sculpture from California State University, Long Beach.

Dulce Soledad Ibarra Sculpture

Photo Credit: Gene Aguilar Magaña

 

i wanna sleep forever. March 17-26

This Residency is supported by The National Endowment for the Arts, mediaThe Foundation, and the Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles.

4/14: Coaxial 9th Anniversary @ Zebulon – with clipping., Maral, and Rotary ECT

Coaxial 9th Anniversary at Zebulon

Friends, Lovers, and Community Members- Coaxial Arts Foundation is turning 9 years old! We invite you to come celebrate another wonderful year with us at Zebulon and cut loose while we wrap up our Annual Membership Drive.

Catch experimental hip-hop and noise rap legends, clipping. before they head out on a European tour with local support from the incredible sounds of Maral, and the audio-visual wonders of Rotary ETC. Keep that beautiful body warm and moving all night with DJs Frankie Jax No Mad and Paulunits. Sunday, April 14, 2024. 7:00pm. 21+

 

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

$25 Pre-Sale. $30 Door (day of only)

 

 

clipping.

clipping.

clipping. is an experimental rap trio from Los Angeles formed in 2010 by William Hutson (Rale), film soundtrack composer Jonathan Snipes (ex-Captain Ahab) and vocalist Daveed Diggs.

http://www.clppng.com/ 

@clppng

 

 

MaralMaral

Los Angeles’s Maral has spent the past half-decade quietly honing an approach that meshes the latest in club music contortions, a range of pulverized dub effects, and samples from her library of Iranian folk, pop and classical musics.

https://maral.bandcamp.com/

@_ma_ral_ 

 

 

Rotart ECTRotary ECT

Rotary ECT is the Audiovisual Project of Los Angeles based artist Christopher Reid Martin who has performed live in projects such as Bailouts, JFMDH, Via Injection, Shelter Death, CGRSM, and under his given name. Rotary ECT started in 2017 in order to integrate and synchronize Christophers multiple creative practices. The result is a unification of sound,  moving image, and moving light into performance pieces of an immersive sensory atmosphere with abstract narratives. Rotary ECT has releases with Tapeworm and Anomia, playing Mira Festival (Barcelona), Touch Festival (La), and Desert Daze(La), and has played mulitple shows in Japan, Spain, and the USA.

https://vimeo.com/849573306 

@rotaryect

 

DJs

Frankie Jax No Mad @frankiejaxnomad 

Paulunits @paulunits

Upcoming Events

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Coaxial Livestream

Coaxial has moved our livestream in house. Access the stream & chat at https://coaxialarts.org/live.

Coaxial Arts Book

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Coaxial is excited to announce our book is now available in our store!

A full color book documenting over six years of Coaxial residencies, events, and programs since its beginning in March 2015.

Book measures 7.5" x 10" with 176 pages.

Design by Sean Deyoe with forward by William Hutson and introduction by Director & Founder Eva Aguila. Special thanks to Marlo De Lara and Natalie Robehmed for helping with proofreading.

The book along with T-shirts, pins, and masks are all avaliable for order in the Coaxial online store:

https://coaxialarts.org/store/

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