February 29 - April 18, 2020
Join us to celebrate the opening of Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin’s new immersive installation, 50 States: Louisiana, and experience a special live performance at 8 pm by the artists who will be joined by free feral and Jinks Holladay, both from New Orleans.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29
Gallery @ MATCH
Opening Reception: 7 – 9 pm
Performance: 8 pm
50 States: Louisiana unearths a 1720s history of a homosexual couple involved in the burgeoning indigo trade in colonial Louisiana. The work uniquely connects this tale to a series of gay Mardi Gras Balls that were held at the New Orleans Longshoremen’s Union Hall in the 1970s. Through video, sculpture, and sound, the artists will envelop audiences in a 300-year span of queer life along the Mississippi. Commissioned by DiverseWorks, 50 States: Louisiana is the sixth part of a longterm project by Vaughan and Margolin that brings to light little-known LGBTQ+ histories from each U.S. state. To date, they have completed multi-disciplinary projects about Wyoming, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Arkansas.
Opening: February 29, 2020 | 7–9 pm
Gallery @ MATCH
3400 Main Street, Suite 292
Houston, 77002 TX
713 223-8346
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