Xandra Ibarra’s art is very bold which is something that I enjoy because I love when people make art that makes others think and some of her artwork is very out there for the comfort of conservative people. What event made her think I need to show this to the world?
My favorite performance is Training for Exhaustion (For The Unintelligible) (2015). As a society we have been taught that cockroaches are very nasty dirty bugs that need to be exterminated. In this performance there are 17 people including Ibarra and they are running as if they were cockroaches. In this run people put on visors that are used as “cucaracha lenses” and are listening to music that states facts about cockroaches. This shows the strength that roaches have when they are united. They multiply, they are fast, and they are hard to kill. This performance is a training exercise in which people train to be able to withstand anything that whiteness must throw our way. Being brown means that you have to work harder than your white folk because your skin-color is somehow degrading.
Being brown is being the minority that has to prove they are worthy of being seen. Everything is harder if you are not a wealthy white man. In this 21 century we are still fighting for equality. Equality of women, equality to trans people, equality of LGBT people and equality of just being human. We are an infestation to the white America. An America that stole, killed and raped its way to power and called it a conquest because they were going to show us the way that we were supposed to live. This performance shows that as cockroaches, minorities are here to stay and invade.
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