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Axis Mundo: At Work

Participants in the Christopher Street West Pride parade wearing Joey Terrill’s malflora and maricón T-shirts, June 1976. Photo by Teddy Sandoval. Courtesy of Paul Polubinskas

Jun 22, 2021
6–7 pm

New York, NY, USA
ICI Online

Participants in the Christopher Street West Pride parade wearing Joey Terrill’s malflora and maricón T-shirts, June 1976. Photo by Teddy Sandoval. Courtesy of Paul Polubinskas

Between the late 1960s and 1990s, a group of queer Chicanx artists based in Los Angeles privileged collaboration and experimentation as they contributed to significant artistic and cultural movements. These include mail art, feminist print media, the formation of alternative spaces, punk music and performance, and artistic response to the AIDS crisis. Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. contextualizes their diverse practices within intersecting fields of queer and Latinx art history.

Since its opening in 2017, Axis Mundo has traveled with ICI to six cities across the United States. The exhibition’s tour marks the first significant showing of many of these pioneering artists’ work and contributes to the expansion of research and understanding of identity while navigating an inequitable cultural landscape. Join us to discuss these aspects of the exhibition in conversation with co-curators C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz and moderated by Becky Nahom, ICI’s Director of Exhibitions.


These events are free and open to the public and include live ASL interpretation and closed-captioning.

This program was supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Presenters
David Evans Frantz

David Evans Frantz is a curator based in Los Angeles.

C. Ondine Chavoya

C. Ondine Chavoya is a writer and curator who holds the John D. Murchison Regents Professorship in Art at the University of Texas at Austin.