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🪩Dive into the realm of 'for the sake of dancing in the street' exhibition, organized by the LA-based visual artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz (@yasmine.diaz) in conjunction with @nomadicdivision, currently on view @Oxyarts until July 29th, 2023.
🦋Pushing the boundaries of traditional exhibition reviews, Sarah Yanni @sssaritahh fearlessly shares her intimate and thought-provoking vignettes.
🌬️ Yanni's unique lens and her captivating words invite us to explore the intertwining threads of movement, joy, resistance, and the complexities of the human body.
✨It's a journey that starts from our very own bedrooms and spills over to the streets, spaces where we seek understanding and liberation, not just as women but as various genders navigating a world shaped by patriarchal norms.

⛓️Click the link in our bio to read more and join this empowering conversation.

#ExhibitionCritique #BreakingTraditions #EmpoweringNarratives #Oxyarts #ForTheSakeOfDancingInTheStreet #youvegotdirt

ID 1: TCS performance at the opening of 'for the sake of dancing in the street.’ by Tracy Nyguyen
ID 2: Artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz explaining a wall archive of global feminist resistance movements inspired by @lastesis by @dirt.dmv

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🪩✨ Thank you to all the gorgeous people who came out to the New Eagle Creek Saloon in celebration of the act of gathering 💙

📚 Thank you to @hermetic_state @dykesday @takoma_park_hottie @lust_amid_crisis for bringing “dykes day, a holigay” to life! Copies are still available for purchase through Hermetic State! And follow them as they continue to take this lesbian surrealist anthology on tour!

🎧Thank you to @museofire for keeping the party alive! The talent and the levels! *chefs kiss*

🍴Thank you to @ciearaadams for designing and delivering a delicious menu, grounded in intention, care, and love!

Lastly, thank you to the STABLE team— @malekej____g Silky, and Jessica. And major 💙 to @sadiebarnette for building the infrastructure to connect across time and space!

📸: @mike.ant by @dirt.dmv

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hi ❤️ reminder dykes day is on tour 💗 please join us for this gathering on Friday June 23 from 6-8p ET in person with several collaborators including @dirt.dmv, @museofire @ciearaadams at New Eagle Creek Saloon by @sadiebarnette at @stablearts !!! learn about the creation and legacy of this bar, the first black gay bar in San Fran. food by @ciearaadams curated by inspiration from dykes day, a holigay! zine making by our @hermetic_state ✨ and @dirt.dmv ! come for the art and drinks stay for the music, food, and celebration 🎉

Inspired by the New Eagle Creek Saloon’s call to gather, Dirt, in collaboration with STABLE and artist Sadie Barnette, hosts a multi-sensory evening dedicated to Black queer worldbuilding. Including a DMV-inspired set from artist and DJ MUSE(O)FIRE, comestibles from food futurist and designer Cieara Adams, and a feature of Hermetic State’s recently published anthology "dykes day, a holigay," the evening underscores the need and importance for spaces to connect. The event both celebrates the long and sustained history of Black queer communities, and imagines new forms of worldbuilding, such as what a holiday for lesbians can look, sound, feel, taste, and smell like.
👅👃🏾👂🏿🤚✨ taken in Stable by @dirt.dmv

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Happy May Day! Today, we stand in solidarity with workers and the labor movement, as we celebrate the struggles and gains made by workers who have fought tirelessly to improve their working conditions, rights, and dignity. As we remember the sacrifices made by those who came before us, we are reinvigorated to continue the fight.

Early last year, we received funding from @wherewithalgrants to explore and expand topics related to labor, equity, and socio-political justice within the arts. Our intention was to delve into the concept of "labor of love" and its inherent flaws, as well as to critique prevailing labor practices in the arts. However, we must admit that despite the funding, we were unable to advance the work we had hoped to do. Ironically, we found ourselves too overwhelmed with our day jobs in the arts to dedicate the required amount of time and energy to research these important topics. As a result, we had to put the project on hold until now.

We are working towards finding sustainable balance in our workloads, so we can make space for new growth. We will be up and running with new content and updates soon.

Huge thanks to @wpadc for the support on this initiative and to everyone who has continued to pitch, read, and share despite our hiatus! As we relaunch the site, please continue to do so or feel free to message us directly on dm here if you have any questions!

❤️ by @dirt.dmv

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“LABOR OF LOVE”: AND OTHER LIES WE'RE SOLD

Thrilled to announce that we have received funding from @wherewithalgrants to support this new initiative for 2022! Want to contribute? Send us an email at youvegotdirt@gmail.com!

Over the course of 2022, Dirt will commission original research and content from established writers and organizers who are working to explore, expand, and expose topics of labor, equity, and socio-political justice within the arts. Seeking to present a broad range of perspectives, the content and collaborations will not be limited by geography, but will rather embrace the overlaps, exchanges, and edges of like-minded thinkers that align with our core belief — that arts writing should be easily accessible; and that artists and arts workers are integral to the evolution of culture and society.

Huge thank you to @wherewithalgrants @wpadc @warholfoundation and to this years panelists Monica Peña, Programs Manager, @locustprojects Locust Projects (Miami); Eriola Pira, @eriolasgram, Curator, The Vera List Center @veralistcenter (New York); Victoria Reis @victorialynnreis , Executive & Artistic Director, Transformer @transformerdc (DC); and Tiffany Ward @auttrianna , Curator and Founder, Mare Residency @mareresidency (Baltimore/London) for your support!! by @dirt.dmv

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*Fresh Dirt* ~ We are deeply honored to present Entanglement 009: Mojdeh Rezaeipour, Natalie Amini, Kamyar Arsani, Rex Delafkaran, Bita Ghavami, Nasrin Navab, Anita Poushan, and Anahita Bradberry 
Read it now, 🔗 in our bio. 💚

In early 2020, a director of a local institution in DC approached Mojdeh Rezaeipour with a collection of ancient pottery fragments originating in over thirty different sites across the Middle East. ⚱️🏺 Bit by bit this past year, Mojdeh started researching these fragments: learning about the layered histories of the places they come from, looking through similar pieces inside other institutional collections, and having conversations with diasporic artists with lineages across these sites toward a collectively imagined work.

The research is ongoing and has since taken on a life of its own, leading her to a collaborative experiment, « Formations of a Diasporic Body, » alongside Natalie Amini, Kamyar Arsani, Rex Delafkaran, Bita Ghavami, Nasrin Navab, and Anita Poushan. 
The show culminated in a live performance in the space featuring Nasrin, Kamyar, and Rex and a screening of a 40-minute film, where Mojdeh pieced together all of their many fragments of memory, movement, poetry, and song through stop motion and projection play. ❤️‍🔥 
On Friday, September 17th, 2021, Dirt’s Editor, Ani Bradberry, brought everyone together to process this work and revisit the project and its potential. The following conversation was not unlike countless other discussions between all artists and lives at the heart of this work.

ID: Image #1: screenshot of this conversation on Zoom, September 17th, 2021
Image #2: Mojdeh Rezaeipour, Fragments, 2020
Image #3: Video still, Bita Ghavami, 2021
Images: #4 #5 #6 & #7 performance footage stills from July 29th, courtesy of Igor Dmitry.
Image: #8 Mixed media still of stop motion sequences (in paper, esfand and pyrography on wood), Mojdeh Rezaeipour, 2021
Image: #9 (left to right) Kamyar, Mojdeh, Nasrin, Rex and Bita after the performance on July 29th, 2021

#Youvegotdirt #Entanglements #Dirtinthefield #Dirtdmv #Iranianartists #videoart #performanceart #mixedmedia #contemporaryartists #dcarts by @dirt.dmv

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Three emerging curators and recent graduates of @ccsbard (Krista Alba, Yihsuan Chiu, and Georgie Payne) speak with An Xiao Mina (artist, leading technologist, digital scholar, and author of Memes to Movements: How the World's Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest and Power) about the evolution of her research, and how the digital space has increasingly become a crucial tool for mobilizing social movements, building solidarity, and expressing grief. by @dirt.dmv

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Fresh *Dirt* on site today! ✨ Danni Shen (@danni_sh) spoke with @olympiartz and @jipgallery about their online exhibition format “A Place to Visit.” Now in its third volume, the series seeks to directly support artists while also directly supporting the mutual aid and various other organizations that these artists care about. You can visit the exhibition site at aplacetovisit.space and read the interview over on our site. #dirt #interview #gallery #art #artist
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[2nd slide: Amanda Madrigal, “Ripe,” 2020.]
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[3rd slide: Lauren Howie, “Valley,” Digital Print.] by @dirt.dmv

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*OUR FIRST PUBLISHED PIECE OF 2021 IS NOW LIVE!* ‘King of the Road’ by Muheb Esmat (@muhebistan) takes a closer look into contemporary visual and cultural production in Kabul, Afghanistan through the city’s vinyl car decals.

Contextualized with a history of Afghan poetry and culture, Esmat writes of the cars windshields as odes to a broken society in uncertain times — passing screens of wisdom soaked with truths about Kabul’s realities and anxieties.

Check it out now on dirtdmv.com ~ link in bio. by @dirt.dmv

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(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭 ♥
𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐢𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐭!⁣⁣⁣⁣
+ 𝘗𝘳𝘦-𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝟸-𝟸0,𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟶⁣⁣
+ 𝘖𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳
⁣⁣⁣⁣+ 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦’𝘴 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘭𝘺𝘯, 𝘕𝘠
+ 𝟷𝟶𝟶% 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘵'𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴⁣⁣⁣
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Everyone’s a critic, as a concept, arrived at a time when we, as a collective, felt that the role of criticism and critique became ever more present in our daily lexicon, while also understanding that as terms and phrases become more frequently used, their context and usage is often taken to extremes or out of context.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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The phrase has multiple, endless, and personal meanings, which is why we gravitated towards it. At once it challenges the traditional idea of who is deemed a critic, while also paying tribute to the naysayers and doubters in our lives.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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We hope the totes can inspire us all to embrace the fullness and messiness of critique, while also reminding us to keep pushing, despite what others may say or think.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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xo,⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
Dirt by @dirt.dmv

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👋 Join us on IG at @dirt.dmv for this week's *LIVE* Shakshouka Sunday on
Nov 1st at 6 pm Tunis (GMT+1) / 9 am PST / 12 EST
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Our co-founding editor Ikram Lakhdhar (@lalaik) and Tunis-based artist and food researcher Rafram Chaddad (@Rafram_x) will prepare a special Banataj dish (Ingredients: Potatoes, dill, coriander, frying oil, eggs, fish or chicken), and discuss how Rafram deconstructs food to reconstruct cultural and personal narratives.

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The word shakshouka in Amazigh/Tunisian dialect translates to a ‘chaotic mixture’ and to cook it, you can utilize any leftovers of vegetables & spices you have in your fridge to cook a family ragout. Similarly, Shakshouka Sunday IG live series applies the ´shakshouka’ concept as a framework inviting an artist to re-hash the leftover ideas from their week/month to create a juicy conversation.

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Rafram Chaddad is a multidisciplinary artist and a food researcher, based in Tunis. As a storyteller, Chaddad draws from stories that are biographical in nature, often from his own family history. Food and traditional craftsmanship are tools at his disposal to tell a tangible truth that can never be too far removed from the viewer.
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Ikram Lakhdhar (She/Her) is a Tunisian, LA based writer, curator, and cultural entrepreneur. She is interested in pushing the boundaries of cultural production & consumption, art education & criticism, arts & politics, and poetry translation. She is a recent graduate from NYU Tisch. #dirtdmv #shakshouka #sunday #IGlive by @dirt.dmv

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