Join artist and DJ Juliana Huxtable and Philadelphia-based sound and performance art duo SCRAAATCH for an evening of frayed binaries, deconstructed soundscapes, and experimental club dynamics.
Meet your friends for delicious snacks from Manakeesh and refreshing HubBub Coffee; then relive the night’s ambiance with free take home photo booth selfies.
The galleries will be open late (until 9pm) and ICA guides will be on hand to navigate the nightlife.
Biographies
Juliana Huxtable (born Bryan-College Station, Texas; lives New York) is writer, artist, and DJ. She is a member of House of Ladosha, a queer artist collective based in Brooklyn, and creator and resident DJ of SHOCK VALUE. She creates and speaks from the positions of cyborg, priestess, witch, and trans girl simultaneously. Huxtable has read and performed at Envoy Enterprises, New York; Brooklyn Academy of Music; Artists Space, New York; and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Her work has been featured in group presentations at MoMA PS1, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The New Museum, New York; and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Huxtable attended Bard College, where she studied art, gender studies, and human rights.
SCRAAATCH is sound and performance art duo comprised of artists E.Jane (born Bethesda, Maryland; lives Philadelphia) and chukwumaa (born Lagos, Nigeria; lives Philadelphia). In addition to running the monthly open format night ATM with DJ Haram, SCRAAATCH has performed and exhibited sound and media experiments at venues including MoMA PS1 Print Shop, New York; The Kitchen, New York; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles; and Little Berlin, Philadelphia. E. Jane and chukwumaa are second year MFA candidates in Interdisciplinary Art at the University of Pennsylvania.