HomeLA produces site-specific interdisciplinary performance events in private residences. This Venice iteration takes place at the long-time canal-side home of Mark Mack and Faiza Alhassoun, and features the work of artists Young Joon Kwak & Kim Ye, Emily Marchand, Jobel Medina, Flora Wiegmann & Maya Gurantz, and Stephanie Dai.

This HomeLA event explores the intersection of public and private space within this family home through dance, performance art, music, sound, drama, activism, humor, and house party vibes. In this iteration in the Venice Canals, Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye present “Matrilineal Ambivalences (in Venice),” unraveling gender, class, and caretaking anxieties in the domestic space, activating the home as a site onto which hopes and anxieties around gender, class, and caretaking are unraveled. Matrilineal Ambivalences (in Venice) is a continuation of their collaborative series Rites of Matrilineal Dissent (2015 – ongoing) in which Kwak and Ye reprise their roles as “Baby Girl” and “Mommy” to enact their dissent of harmful notions of womanhood and femininity.  For Matrilineal Ambivalences (in Venice), Kwak and Ye invite audiences to attend a very special rite of passage for Baby Girl (and Mommy!): the Baby Shower. [read more]