Language Garden
Language Garden (Season 2)
A Season of Readings, Workshops, & Living Matters to take place in the Future Garden
Installment no. 5
Fariha Róisín
Alexandro Segade
Agnes Borinsky
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Sunday, August 25
6:30pm
at David Horvitz’s 7th Ave. Garden
1911 7th Ave., Los Angeles, CA
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Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Ontario, Canada. She was raised in Sydney, Australia, and is based in Los Angeles. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, in liminality, otherness and the mercurial nature of being. Her work has pioneered a refreshing and renewed conversation about wellness, contemporary Islam and queer identities and has been featured in Al Jazeera, The Guardian, and Vogue. She is the author of the poetry collection How To Cure A Ghost (2019), as well as the novel Like A Bird (2020), Who Is Wellness For? (2022) and her second book of poetry is entitled Survival Takes a Wild Imagination.
Alexandro Segade is an interdisciplinary artist, whose experiments in live performance, video, sound, and multimedia create queer proposals for speculative identities. Segade’s theater and video project, Anoche (2024), exploring Cuban identity from Havana to diaspora, premiered at the Havana Biennial 2024, in Cuba. Segade’s opera Star Choir, co-created by Malik Gaines, was developed at the Park Avenue Armory, NYC, and produced by the Industry at the Mount Wilson Observatory, LA, in 2023. Segade's collective My Barbarian had a multimedia career survey exhibition at the Whitnev Museum or American art in 2021, which traveled to the institute of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles. Segade is assistant professor at UC San Diego, in Visual Arts.
Agnes Borinsky is a writer and theater-maker living in Los Angeles. Her most recent play was The Trees, which premiered in 2023 at Playwrights Horizons in New York. With Yasser Abu Shaqra, she is co-editor of the forthcoming Futures: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab Theater.
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The Language Garden Reading Series is programmed by Corina Copp, Sophia Le Fraga, & Joseph Mosconi, with interventions/germinations from David Horvitz.