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GROW GREEN MAN
Performance Party/Touch Tours + Artist Talk with Saira Barbaric
OCT 5 Performance Party | 6 PM
OCT 6 Touch Tours | 12 PM- 4 PM
Seattle Art Museum, Paccar Pavilion in Olympic Sculpture Park
Individual Tickets: Sliding Scale $0-50
PERFORMANCE PARTY
In deference to the powers of the woods — from the maenads to the green knight to Gran Bwa — performers touch on the unruly nature of the wilderness to seed, build and dance with creatures real and unreal. Sunset will set off a series of performances including circus, burlesque, installation art and interactive acts from a lineup of Black Disabled artists including Saira Barbaric. The audience will be invited to play, respond, move and relax throughout an evening of investigation and catharsis. Grow Green Man refuses to hide the process of preparation, repair and mounting that precedes the gallery becoming a wonderland. Grow Green Man is a performance party from Saira Barbaric, hosted at the Olympic Sculpture Park’s Paccar Pavilion. Come early to hear DJs, enjoy refreshments and experience works from Barbaric’s 2022 show, Pantheon Anew. Sunset will set off a series of performances from a lineup of Black Disabled artists including Saira Barbaric. The night will wrap up with more dancing and drinks Come on out for an evening of sensual, playful, confronting work from a bevy of PNW favorites and new-to-us powerhouses.
TOUCH TOURS + ARTIST TALK
This is space for context and access about Saira’s installation and the party the night before. Barbaric will be offering touch and/or discussion tours of the installation space at the top of each hour. The space will be available to the public. The discussion and touch tours will be 30-40 minutes with option for ASL interpretation and an emphasis on audio descriptions by the artist. With registration, you will confirm the hour of your visit. Please arrive in the first 10 minutes to experience the full artist tour.
ARTIST BIOS
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Saira Barbaric (he/they/she/ze) is a nonbinary Black Disabled hedonist fascinated by birth, death and rebirth. They are a maker of erotic art, performance art, collages, masks, costumes, paintings, films and events. Barbaric grounds their work in mediums and venues considered both high and low art with the aim at weakening the barrier between the two. After a BFA in costuming for theater, Barbaric worked in film then nightlife from Chicago to LA to Seattle. In 2016, Barbaric began putting transformative justice and Disability Justice practices into their art and event spaces centering those who share their intersections: Black, transgender, queer and Disabled. Saira Barbaric has been a 2023-24 Leslie Lohman Museum Fellow, part of the AXIS Dance Company Choreo-lab 2023 cohort and part of the 2022 and 2023 Dancing Disability Labs at UCLA as well as received grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. They are a co-founder and co-producer of Scumtrust Productions, a nonbinary and queer porn project crafting films and screening parties that exalt sensual magic as well as a co-founder and co-curator of Mouthwater Dance, a Disabled arts project launching Mouthwater Festival in Seattle during fall 2024.
Check out barbaric-art.com for more about Saira and their practice.
ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION
Mouthwater: Disabled Arts Festival
All events will be ASL interpreted. All venues have step-free access to the bathrooms and performance spaces. There will be a variety of seating and ear plugs available in venue spaces. Please reach out to cripdancedoula@gmail.com