My Barbarian in "You Were Born Poor & Poor You Will Die" REDCAT, LA 2006Photo: Patterson Beckwith
My Barbarian is an LA-based performance collective founded in 2000 by Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade. The trio creates and performs in site-specific plays, musical concerts, theatrical situations and video installations that explore contemporary political challenges by playing out allegorical narratives drawn from history and mythology. My Barbarian has shown work at venues including LACMA, REDCAT, Hammer Museum, MOCA, LAXART, Schindler House, LACE, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum, New Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, Participant, Inc., Joe’s Pub, New York; Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen; Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; The Power Plant, Toronto; De Appel, Amsterdam; Peres Projects, Berlin; Torpedo, Oslo; El Matadero, Madrid; CCA, Tel Aviv; and Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy. My Barbarian was included in the 2005 and 2007 Performa Biennials, the 2006 California Biennial and the 2007 Montreal Biennial. In 2008, the group will create new commissioned performance pieces for the New Museum and Galleria Civica, Trento, participate in the California Biennial 2008 at Estacion / Lui Velazquez, Tijuana and present a solo exhibition at Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles.
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