In(ti)mate Lives: Laundry Days After the Jailhouse Ball
About the event
This performance and live exhibit will recover memories of the In(ti)mate Lives in Los Angeles Men's Central Jail's K6-G Unit (Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Dorms) and other jail/prison houses through a "Run-A-Way Walk" of formerly incarcerated artists.Through gestures, poses, hair, make-up, and gowns made from materials that one will find in the jailhouse dorm, performers will recast the memory of Los Angeles Men's Central Jail from one that is hyper-hetero, hyper-masculine, hyper-private, and hyper-toxic into one that is always already queer and transgendered, transformatively caring, and Abolitionist. Rejecting reformist practices, performers call for "Abolition Now!" Performers will not only tell stories of struggle, pain, and heartbreak, but of liberation, community, and art-making, walking the run-a-way as queer fugitives. Challenging, expanding, and transforming the notion that "Jail saved my life,” poetry, prose, choreography, and/or music will be performed testifying instead to the life we made in spite of jail/prison. Stories of the K6-G Unit and other Jailhouse cells per our honorary Jailhouse members) will publicize what is kept behind carceral walls.
