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hannah baer: Time Travel Birthday
When: Aug 01, 8 PM
Where: Art Omi
Join hannah baer for an interactive performance where audience members and performers will cast a web that extends forward and backward in time to celebrate together, marking time, and reflecting on wishes for our lives in this moment in history.
Free and open to the public. RSVP essential.
This event is presented on the occasion of Nayland Blake’s “Haunt”: Being the Folly of One Victorya Spectre at Art Omi.
About the artists:
Nayland Blake
Since the late 1980s, Nayland Blake (b. 1960, New York, NY) has constructed an influential body of work exploring play, eroticism, and the subjective experiences of desire, power, and loss. Inspired by feminist theory and queer subcultures, Blake addresses the contradictions of representation in sculptures, drawings, performances, and videos, particularly as it relates to their own identity as a nonbinary multiracial artist.
Blake’s work was included in the 1991 Whitney Biennial, the 1993 Venice Biennale, and the landmark exhibition “Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art” at the Whitney Museum (1994). Blake co-curated the exhibition “In A Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, and Queer Practice” (1995) with Larry Rinder at the University Art Museum, Berkeley. “Nayland Blake: No Wrong Holes,” a retrospective organized by the ICA LA, opened in 2019 before traveling to the MIT List Visual Arts Center in 2020. Blake’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.
In 2025, Duke University Press published My Studio Is a Dungeon Is the Studio: Writings and Interviews, 1983–2024, an anthology of Blake’s collected writings edited by Jarrett Earnest. Blake is currently Co-Director of the Studio Art Program at Bard College.
hannah baer
hannah baer is a writer and therapist based in New York. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Artforum, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is the author of the memoir trans girl suicide museum.