Weirdo Night SFMOMA - September 4th - BAY AREA COMRADES AND CRIMINALS!!! Weirdo Night is coming to San Francisco!!
7 PM: Weirdo Night, Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater
Admission is FREE
starring Bay Area luminaries:::
Xandra Ibarra
OBSIDIENNE OBSURD
Cliff Hengst
and unpopular LA dance company
HAAGS
Xandra Ibarra, who sometimes works under the alias of La Chica Boom, is an Oakland-based artist from the US/Mexico border of El Paso/Juarez. Ibarra works across performance, video, and sculpture to address abjection and joy and the borders between proper and improper racialized, gendered, and queer subjects.
OBSIDIENNE OBSURD is a mind-bending, genre-melting, surrealist, maximalist, pseudo-intellectual bespoke garbage-wearing drag goblin multi-hyphenate. Hailed for her bold silhouettes, absurdist performance proclivity, and iconically recognizable paint, OBSIDIENNE is a prolific drag producer, outlandishly ambitious performer, and classical violist.
Cliff Hengst is an artist and performer who works and lives in San Francisco. He has exhibited work at SFMOMA, Southern Exposure, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and Gallery 16 in San Francisco. Hengst has performed and exhibited at Hauser & Wirth and Machine Project in Los Angeles, the Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga, New York, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.
Haaggzz (fluid spelling) is a wig-forward dance troupe consisting of Emilia Richeson-Valiente of Ponysweat and Jibz Cameron of Dynasty Handbag. They are a pleasure-led and anti-aspirational exploration of body fun.
Emilia Richeson-Valiente (she/her) is a performer, writer, and the creator of punk-feminist aerobics practice Pony Sweat. She has cultivated a loyal following through her “fiercely noncompetitive” dance aerobics format, which celebrates anti-perfectionism, self-expression, gaiety, and the liberation of bodies. Alongside her Pony Sweat work, Emilia writes about music and somatic practices and is published in Dopamine Book’s 2025 WITCH Anthology.