Join us for the launch of two new publications followed by a performance by experimental musician and visual artist Lizzi Bougatsos.
Join us Friday, January 13 at 7 pm for the closing event of our exhibitions Women’s History Museum: Grisette à l’enfer and Lu Yang: DOKU: DOKU: DOKU: samsara.exe. The evening celebrates the launch of two publications released on the occasion of the exhibitions, followed by a performance by New York-based experimental musician and visual artist Lizzi Bougatsos.
Drawing on the haunting logic of dreams and the unruly force of memory, Bougatsos responds to Women’s History Museum’s first monograph, Grisette à l’enfer, a lookbook featuring commissioned writing by Edna Adan, Patricia Tilburg, and Fiona Alison Duncan, alongside photographs by Wera Nowak. She performs, ARABIQUE, an unreleased Gang Gang Dance song styled in a WHM garment, channeling power and seduction as her voice and percussion cut through the space, revealing the score as a live transmission of a dreamed world and a projected site of approachability, ownership, and desire.
The event also celebrates the reader published in conjunction with Lu Yang’s exhibition DOKU: DOKU: DOKU: samsara.exe. The publication brings together texts that emerged from a weekend of symposia held on November 15–16, 2026. “Avatar Studies: Inquiries into the Digital Medium”, organized by Brian Droitcour, convened artists, designers, and theorists working across the many ecosystems of digital creation. The following day, Adriana Blidaru’s “Devotional Circuits”—a workshop and public reading—invited six writers to respond to Lu Yang’s work by considering technology in relation to ritual, belief, and the body.
