Last performance of the season, one not to be missed!

Alex Romania prods whiteness as the presumably unmarked, the allegedly neutral--both in the tradition of Western art history, and in discourses on race. Through his performance the artist asks whether and how these figurations are interlaced, how one operates to defend the other in either aesthetic or political terms.

"White substances in a gallery painted white, to consider whiteness as false purity, whiteness as egomaniacal death worship, whiteness as subliminal capitalist advertising, whiteness as acts of self devouring, whiteness as violent normality, whiteness as cloud perched devotional ignorance, whiteness as razor sharp frailty, whiteness as the othering act of contemporaneity, whiteness as the shallow self unknown, whiteness as ‘invisible’ toxicity."
--A. Romania

Alex Romania makes multidisciplinary work at the crux of expansive task and deteriorative form, investigating bodies of cultural debris amidst the invisible everyday and toxic ingestions. Romania’s work delves into spaces of the unimaginable, staring into the unknown to consider a crude and splendid humanity, embracing the unruly to liberate the governed body. Based in NYC, Romania has presented work and taught nationally and internationally – most recently at Abrons Arts Center (NYC), Human Resources (LA), Encuentro (Lima, Peru), UV Estudios (Buenos Aires, Argentina), the Pillsbury House (Minneapolis), the Center for Performance Research (NYC), and el Museo del Arte Contemporáneo (Lima). Romania is currently an artist in residence with Movement Research (NYC) and looks forward to a short performance tour in Europe this summer.