Hybrid Vigor: Come As All Of You
Hosted by Caitlin Abadir-Mullally (kt) and Kamala Puligandla
Hybrid Vigor is a project exploring mixedness and the complexity of ethnic identity. The latest workshop in this series challenges the notion of authenticity, and celebrates the power in being perpetually unexpected. Hybrid Vigor is a space to converse, react, evolve, and create — we embrace the incongruous experiences that arise when attempting to form a community. Join us for readings, video, and discussion, that will lead us to build together. Come as all of you.
More works by Kamala Puligandla
January 28th 2020 at California Institute of the Arts with ArtChangeUS REMAP: LA Artist-Led Equity.
Hybrid Vigor: In the Flesh
hosted by Shanti Hands and Caitlin Abadir-Mullally
Hybrid Vigor: In the Flesh is an event exploring mixedness, complex ethnic identities, celebrating complications and correcting the misconception of racial purity. Hybrid Vigor is another term for heterosis — the tendency of a crossbred individual to show qualities superior to those of both parents. The multi-stationed event is made up of video, photostreams, mixed food art, a lecture on homogenous and heterogenous mixtures, collaborative thinking, writing and dance. The event is welcome to all especially mixed kids and race-mixers. Hybrid Vigor: In the Flesh is the second mixed happening hosted by Shanti Hands and Caitlin Abadir-Mullally with a performance by Abriel Gardner.
More work by Shanti Hands
March 16th 2019 at Subliminal Projects in Echo Park within Chad Kouri’s exhibition The Center.
Event Photos:
Hybrid Vigor Photo Booth
Put your fingers where you’re “from”, show us your GRASP on the WORLD
Culture Clash: Hybrid Vigor
November 10th 2018
The Women’s Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, CA
Hybrid Vigor is a project by Shanti Hands and Caitlin Abadir-Mullally that looks at loving our mixed-ness and actively correcting the misconception of racial purity. Hybrid Vigor is another term for heterosis which is the tendency of a crossbred individual to show qualities superior to those of both parents. We will be talking about the language around hybridity, the creation of new words and how hybridity can be understood and laughed about through interactions with other mixed bodies.
The event at Women’s Center for Creative Work will be a workshop of sorts with physical action, group conversations and a screening of the film Hybrid Vigor. The film features mixed folx engaging in conversation about hybridity, complexity and connection. The film features artists Anais Franco, Kamala Puligandla, Layla Farahani, Georgia Reid, Jackie Lampert, Shanti Hands and Caitlin Abadir-Mullally.
Screencaps from the film Hybrid Vigor
