BLOOD BABY

BLOOD BABY

ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
909 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007
January 25–31, 2024


Scroll down for schedule and RSVP links.

Featuring dance performances, interactive sculpture, readings, community events, and more, Blood Baby is a weeklong celebration of queer kinship, radical gender performance, and belonging that explores the queer family experience.

For more info and artist bios, click HERE.

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Carpet Womb (ONE Archives garden) is a sweaty gay disco ritual performed inside a large fabric structure designed in collaboration with Rabbit AL Friedrich and receiving dramaturgical support from Michèle Steinwald. The immersive dance centering joy and sexuality will be performed by Meg Foley, Charli Brissey, Zara Martina Lopez, Kristine Manuel, Majesty Royale-Jackson, and Fox Whitney.

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Communion (ONE Archives reading room) is a participatory experience involving shared reading and embodiment. Informed by text-based research with playwright and 2019 Guggenheim Fellow Sylvan Oswald, guided by Meg Foley, and performed in part by its audience, Communion examines the space between body and language, demonstrating how language extends, represents, and ruptures our corporeal identities.

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Primordial (ONE Archives gallery) captures “rock drag,” a site-responsive, sculptural practice of embodying geologic processes as movement prompts, in an immersive video and sound installation by visual artist (and Foley’s co-parent) Carmichael Jones, to connect geology, transformation, and queer gestation.

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Touch Library (ONE Archives mezzanine) is a tactile browsing library and living archive offering audiences the opportunity to engage with the physical traces of the performances and experience the somatic exercises, scores, and physical materials used in building the performance elements on their own time and in their own bodies.

Schedule and RSVP Links

THURSDAY, JANUARY 25 

Touch Library: 10 a.m.–8 p.m. – No reservations necessary
Primordial: 10 a.m.–8 p.m. – No reservations necessary
Communion and opening-night discussion: 6–8 p.m. – RSVP

FRIDAY, JANUARY 26

Touch Library: 10 a.m.–6:30 p.m. – No reservations necessary
Primordial: 10 a.m.–6:30 p.m. – No reservations necessary
Carpet Womb public performance: 6:30 p.m. – RSVP 

SATURDAY, JANUARY 27

Touch Library: 10 a.m.–7:30 p.m. – No reservations necessary
Primordial: 1 p.m.–7:30 p.m. – No reservations necessary
Carpet Womb public performance: 4:30 p.m. – RSVP
Carpet Womb public performance: 7:30 p.m. – RSVP

SUNDAY, JANUARY 28

Touch Library: 12 p.m.–7:30 p.m. – No reservations necessary
Primordial: 12 p.m.–7:30 p.m. – No reservations necessary
Carpet Womb public performance: 4:30 p.m. – RSVP
Carpet Womb public performance: 7:30 p.m. – RSVP

MONDAY, JANUARY 29

Touch Library: 10 a.m.–6:30 p.m.- No reservations necessary
Primordial: 10 a.m.–6:30 p.m. – No reservations necessary
Carpet Womb public performance: 6:30 p.m. – RSVP  

TUESDAY, JANUARY 30

Touch Library: 10 a.m.–6:30 p.m. – No reservations necessary
Primordial: 10 a.m.–6:30 p.m. – No reservations necessary
Carpet Womb public performance: 6:30 p.m. - RSVP

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31

Touch Library: 10 a.m.–8 p.m. – No reservations necessary
Primordial: 10 a.m.–8 p.m. – No reservations necessary
Communion and closing celebration: 6–8 p.m. – RSVP

 

Presented by USC Visions and Voices. Organized by ONE Archives at the USC Libraries and the USC Kaufman School of Dance.

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