MAK Center and homeLA present In Their Own Image, a performance program in dialogue with a selection of photographic works from Austrian-born and self-proclaimed feminist artist VALIE EXPORT, called Body Configurations, on view as part of “VALIE EXPORT: Embodied” at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House. The performance program will be held on Saturday, March 23, 2024, from 1-4:30pm, with a reception until 6p. In Their Own Image is a performance program curated by Chloë Flores featuring new work by performing artists Zackary Drucker, Sierra Fujita, Emily Lucid, Lara Salmon, Andrea Soto, and Dorian Wood. The program developed from an invitation to create work in response to VALIE EXPORT's series of physicalized performative actions and early feminist provocations known as Body Configurations. The artists were asked to consider this body of work within the specific context of the Schindler House in Los Angeles, CA, where select works from this series will be exhibited. Each artist engaged the proposition with work that responds to –– and subverts –– the spatial contexts of the Schindler House, just as EXPORT’s interventions in public space reframed the spatialized female body. The work of EXPORT and other early feminist artists fostered a more inclusive, intersectional, and supportive movement for these artists today whose creative practices bring visibility to the complexities of contemporary femme experience. Their various creative expressions highlight the persistent challenges of gender and social disparity in contemporary culture, and open more nuanced understandings of femme and human experience in the world. As such, their performative creations enhance awareness of structural ableism, labor disparities, gender privileges, identity, and unequal representation. Through works that pay tribute to VALIE EXPORT's dismantling practices, In Their Own Image unravels the constructs that comprise traditional subjectivities to open space and possibility for beings and forms that are here, and those that are still yet to come. In Their Own Images includes the following performances. Image: Sierra Fujita, HANNYA, 2024 (rehearsal image). Photograph by Corinne Schiavone.