6.24.14 (8:30PM) BOY BAND AUDITION - Alexandro + Mateo Segade

 

Ace BoiFrenzy, a pop-music producer/impresario, and his bodyguard/sidekick, DJ RainBro, return from a dystopian future to the contemporary present in order to assemble the perfect boy band - a boy band that will save the future by releasing a single that will unite the world and thwart the coming hegemonic, monocultural forces. Combining science-fiction, electronic pop music, and audience participation, Boy Band Audition is an interactive performance night of dancing, singing, and imagining life after the future is over. Written and directed by Alexandro Segade, with music by Mateo Segade, the performance continues the series of queer sci-fi adventures the brothers have presented at REDCAT, LAXART, Pieter, and Concord, Los Angeles; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; UC Riverside ArtsBlock, Vox Populi, Philadelphia; and Museo del Barrio, New York.

Alexandro Segade’s cross-disciplinary video, performance, and visual art explores themes of queer culture, narrative genre and theatre, often in collaboration with other artists. Segade is one third of the group My Barbarian, an artist collective which also includes Jade Gordon and Malik Gaines, recently included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. His work has been shown at MOMA, the New Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, LACMA, MOCA, the Hammer Museum, among many other regional and international venues. In 2011 he received an Art Matters grant for collaborative work with artist Wu Tsang, and their work together has been shown at the Gwangju Biennial in South Korea, The Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio, the Whitney Museum and Artists’ Space in New York. Segade’s most recent collective project, Courtesy the Artists, has presented performances, videos and drawings at MOMA PS1, Recess Activities, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Performa 13, and the Kitchen, NYC. His most recent work, a participatory performance piece entitled Boy Band Audition is a collaboration with his brother Mateo Segade that has been performed at Judson Church in New York and the Time Based Art Festival in Portland, Oregon. Segade teaches at Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of Art, in the department of Film/Video.

Former child-star-turned-street-urchin and DJ to the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Mateo "Strangeweed" Segade recently won the most recent round of the Next Music DJ Competition at the Eagle. Mateo spins regularly at many venues in the SoCAl area, including the Eagle, #trade, and others.