(CANCELLED) SISSI

Friday, March 13 from 6 - 8 pm at the Generator Space

Cost: Free

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What: SISSI reclaims an insult hurled across schoolyards and streets to shame and dehumanize by redefining the term as an epithet of pride and empowerment. Curated by Jared Packard, this exhibition features six artists--Jared Brown, Jared Buckheister, J. Michael Ford, Walker Green, Dawuane Lamont Hayes, Matt Morris--hailing from Omaha, New York City, and Chicago. SISSI celebrates the feminine, while pointing to the social and cultural forces that regulate and oppress gender expression.

A guiding objective of this exhibition is to memorialize the ongoing and historic erasure of gender non conforming individuals through artistic gestures that privilege quietness, risk being overlooked, and sometimes eliminate objecthood all together. The rigid enforcement of gender expression requires that those operating outside its framework use subversive strategies and coded content to infect and infiltrate--stealthily opening discourse that challenges the status quo. Although voices from the margins may be dismissed by those in power, they hold culture-shifting potential.

While this exhibition commemorates the silencing of sissi’s, it also recognizes the importance of raucous protest which has been integral to achieving visibility and civil rights for the LGBTQ+ community. Please join us on April 10, 2020 for NIGHT OF NOISE, a loud, flagrant celebration of gender expression.

Free and open to the public. This exhibition is presented with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.

Where: Generator Space, 1804 Vinton St, Omaha, NE 68108

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