“…and then this happened” Performance for “ENDURANCE” by LACE
This group exhibition took place May 16 - May 17, 2026. Located at Los Angeles Dance Project. Program by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. View documentation below.
Artist Statement
…and then this happened… is a performance that maps Sharon Kagan’s four year experiences of multiple life-changing health crises: mastectomy, sepsis, and brain tumor. All the while, she continued her art practice; she created The Deermaiden video and multiple events for maiden LA while recovering from her mastectomy and wrote the beginnings of Lost & Found, a future performance, and began embroidering documentation of Release Me after her brain surgery that led to seizure disorder in which she struggled to speak, walk, and regain balance.
About the Exhibition
ENDURANCE presents performance art and interdisciplinary work by elder artists. This series is a companion program to LACE’s 2024 performance series, ABUNDANCE, both featuring often invisibilized bodies.
Through their longstanding committed and engaged practices, artists in ENDURANCE transmit wisdom and experience while embracing the challenges and opportunities that come with age and aging. Held over two nights at L.A. Dance Project, ENDURANCE showcases re-stagings and new commissions by legacy performance, dance, and literary artists Gloria Enedina Álvarez, Kamau Daáood, Anna Homler, Jeff Schwartz, and David Javelosa, Ulysses Jenkins and his band “Who Dat!,” Juanita and Juan (Alice Bag + Kid Congo Powers), Sharon Kagan, Hirokazu Kosaka, Oguri, Sheree Rose, Barbara T. Smith, The Dark Bob, and Awilda Sterling-Duprey. The program also features films by Eiko Otake and Joan Jonas on May 16, and Marnie Weber on May 17.
These artists share groundbreaking contributions to their disciplines with multiple generations, changing exclusionary narratives, and becoming ancestors in life.
ENDURANCE is curated by Selene Preciado, LACE Curator and Director of Programs.
Performance Schedule:
Friday, May 16, 2025
7:00 PM: Eiko Otake and Joan Jonas film, With the Earth at My Waistline (2021)
7:30 PM: Kamau Daáood
7:50 PM: Sharon Kagan
8:15 PM: Sheree Rose
8:40 PM: Hirokazu Kosaka
9:05 PM: Awilda Sterling-Duprey
9:30 PM: Juanita and Juan
Saturday, May 17, 2025
7:00 PM: Marnie Weber film, The Cabin of Mothra Crone (2021)
7:30 PM: Gloria Enedina Álvarez accompanied by Greg Hernandez
7:50 PM: Awilda Sterling-Duprey
8:15 PM: Barbara T. Smith
8:40 PM: Oguri
9:05 PM: The Dark Bob, Ulysses Jenkins
9:30 PM: Anna Homler, Jeff Schwartz, and David Javelosa