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The Brick and Performance Art Museum present

These Creatures: A Celebration of Nancy Buchanan 

Saturday, August 23, 2025
11 AM - 6 PM
at The Brick


Join The Brick and Performance Art Museum for a day-long gathering to celebrate the retrospective exhibition TRUTHFULLY, NANCY BUCHANAN. The event features music by Arshia Fatima Haq; performances by Mariel Carranza, Kiyo Gutierrez, and the LA Art Girls; food by Eden’s Snacks; and a walkthrough and conversation with Nancy Buchanan.

All are welcome to stop by or hang out with us all day! 

Schedule of Events: 

11 AM: Sounds by Arshia Fatima Haq

12 PM: Exhibition Walkthrough with Nancy Buchanan

1 PM: Sounds by Arshia Fatima Haq

2 PM: Performance by Kiyo Gutiérrez

3 PM: Conversation with Nancy Buchanan 

4 PM: Performance by Mariel Carranza

5 PM: Peace is not a Piece of Cake by the LA Art Girls

**Eden’s Snack’s gourmet pop-up shop will be available from 12pm to 4pm.

Eden Bakti is a peripatetic multi-disciplinary artist , storyteller, and consultant working in photography, food, and film. Her documentary film Weedeater (2016) is a dreamy, experimental portrait of a plant communicator and soil healer. Batki gets commissioned to create dinners with and for other artists in galleries and homes internationally, as well private catered dinners. Batki has worked in photography and film production for years wearing many hats, depending on what the job calls for. Currently Batki is working on a food project researching her Hungarian roots in relation to food and land, and a brand called Cires, which curates homemade Hungarian and Romanian housewares, jewelry, and vintage textiles. https://www.edenbatki.com/

Mariel Carranza was born and raised in Perú and came to Los Angeles in 1980 where she studied at Los Angeles City College with Raoul De La Sota, and at UCLA where she received a B.A. in Studio Art and an M.F.A in Sculpture. As an immigrant who regularly exhibits in Los Angeles, nationally and internationally, Carranza makes performances that underscore the fractured and complicated identities and structural complexities of body politics, location, language, and history. As part of Los Angeles’ performance art ecosystem, she has developed a practice contingent on seeing a cross-cultural art discourse that engages with public art more than conventional art spaces. Carranza is committed to finding ways to make her work more accessible to broader, non-traditional, art-seeking audiences. Her artistic goals and practice rely on creating performances that complicate concepts of time and space. Her signature work involves temporary social sculpture coupled with elements of highly intensive duration, endurance, and repetition. These methods transform both the living matter in the work and the witnesses and spectators of the work in both actual (live) and flexible (post-performance) time. https://www.marielcarranza.com/

Kiyo Gutiérrez is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist. Trained in history, she turned to performance to explore the body’s potential as a tool of resistance. Her work emerged as a response to Mexico’s brutal realities: femicide, disappearances, and environmental devastation. Her ritual-performances often integrate archival research, sculpture, textile, sound and audience participation. Her work reexamines the construction of colonial history, uncovering how bodies and materials themselves bear the traces of extraction, exploitation, resistance and transformation. She is interested in the possibility of multispecies alliances and has collaborated with damaged bodies of water, pollinators and burnt forests. Kiyo performs in public spaces and has participated in Performance Festivals and exhibitions in México, Brasil, Colombia, Bolivia, Spain, Italy and the United States. She has participated in Irrational Exhibits 13: Debates, an editorial project for Colección Cisneros, and is an alum of Georgetown University’s Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics. Kiyo is a recipient of the Franklin Furnace Fund, the Macomber Travel Grant, the Fulbright Scholarship, and was nominated for the Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award. She received her MFA in Fine Arts at the Roski School of Arts of the University of Southern California. https://kiyogutierrez.com/ 

Arshia Fatima Haq (born in Hyderabad, India) is a Los Angeles-based artist who works across film, visual art, performance, and sound. She works through counter-archives and speculative narratives, and is currently exploring themes of indigenous and localized knowledge within the context of Sufism. Her projects have been presented nationally and internationally at museums, galleries, nightclubs, and in the streets, and have been featured at the Broad Museum; LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions); the Hammer Museum; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson; Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston; Onassis Stegi, Athens; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Toronto International Film Festival; and NPR; among others. Haq is the founder of Discostan, a collaborative club-based project, radio show and record label drawing from the cultural production of South and West Asia and North Africa and their diasporas. She has produced radio programming for Dublab and KCRW and currently co-hosts and produces a monthly radio show on NTS. Haq received an MFA in Film and Video from California Institute of the Arts. https://arshiahaq.com/ 


The LA Art Girls evolved from informal gatherings and studio visits, started in Los Angeles in 2004 by artist Micol Hebron, which were a means of encouraging substantive discourse on contemporary art between peers. The intentions of the LA Art Girls are to provide inspiration, support, dialogue and feedback to one another. The group strives to be a voluntary and non-hierarchical gathering of practices. The LA Art Girls have produced several collaborative projects including Strange Love (2005), an exquisite corpse-style video remake of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, exhibited at QED Gallery; Total Art Performance Event, a series of Fluxus-inspired performances at the Getty Center in June 2006; group exhibitions at Anna Helwing Gallery, LACE and Angles Gallery; String Theory, a radio show on K-beach Global Radio; and Overflow, a reinvention of Alan Kaprow's Fluids (1967) at the Getty Center, in April 2008. While there have been over thirty members of the LA Art Girls during its twenty-year-long history, a lesser number participate in collaborative projects on a self-selecting basis. Meanwhile, many members of the group pursue their own practices as contemporary artists. The LA Art Girls have been dormant as a collective practice since 2014, yet remain committed to support among peers and substantive discourse. They are gathering at the Brick on August 23, 2025, to celebrate the groundbreaking and inspiring practice of their fellow LA Art Girl and peer, Nancy Buchanan.

This event is a collaborative program presented on the occasion of the exhibition TRUTHFULLY, NANCY BUCHANAN at The Brick, co-curated by Laura Owens and Catherine Taft. Generous support for the exhibition is provided by The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, Karen Hillenburg, Margaret Morgan and Wesley Phoa Fund, Angeles Art Fund, and the Pasadena Art Alliance. Additional support provided by Kim and Keith Allen-Niesen, Betsy Greenberg, the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Teiger Foundation. In-kind support provided by Charlie James Gallery.

Lead support for the Performance Art Museum (PAM) courtesy of Karen Hillenburg. Major support courtesy of Laura Donnelley and Good Works Foundation. Additional support courtesy of Vera R. Campbell Foundation, Laura Maslon, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Teiger Foundation, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

These Creatures: A Celebration of Nancy Buchanan is part of High Performance: A 2-Year Conference, a multi-year (2025-2027) program series dedicated to High Performance magazine, the first international art magazine devoted exclusively to performance art. This initiative is designed to highlight High Performance's enduring impact on contemporary art. Nancy Buchanan’s performance was featured in a number of issues, and on the cover of High Performance #25 Vol. VII, No. 1, 1984. Notably, she also interviewed Viennese Actionist artist Hermann Nitsch for the cover story of High Performance Vol.1 #3 in September 1978.

Image caption: Video Stills from Nancy Buchanan’s These Creatures, 1979, single-channel video, color, sound, 60 sec. Courtesy of the artist. 

LAXART, dba The Brick is a non-profit 501(c)3 charitable organization, EIN 20-2911916, and donations are fully tax-dedutible to the extent of the law.

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