The body as tabula rasa on which to write one's identity, history and politics comes powerfully into play in "Projected Personae." Bodybuilding, drag and various types of performance - whether enacted by a Britney Spears-style blonde or a fiercely funny dominatrix toying with a rather submissive piñata - are just a few of the ways in for the mostly local artists focused on time-based work. At Somarts, as curators, we're always thinking about how we can respond to our communities and what art is being nurtured and breaking and pushing artists into new spaces. There's a lot of art being made by local artists about fictitious identities and how invented personas can address questions people might have with people of color and queer bodies and how gender identity can be represented. La Chica Boom or Xandra Ibarra has two pieces: one is "Dominatriz del Barrio," and the other is "La Corrida," where she's doing a site-specific performance on the border. [...] there are layers of complexity about gender identity in the Bay Area but also cultural drag with a diasporic culture of Caribbean and Latin American people in America.

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