Thursday, 2/8
Doors 7:30PM
Show 8PM
$7. NOTAFLOF.

Nina Sarnelle's

Nike X and My Dead Hand

A video research project in Air Force Blue. A conflation of the history of basketball sneakers with the Cold War-era Nike Missile Defense system. Nike is the Greek goddess of victory: a metaphor for branding sporting goods and national security.
Welcome to our first Shadow Kitchen of 2024! On February 9th we've invited the artist Nina Sarnelle (they/she) to present an audiovisual delight and incisive dissection of all things that find themselves caught under the moniker of "NIKE", from athletic footwear to ICBMs.

A discussion with the artist to follow!

Happy New Year everyone, we're so glad to be back!

More about the show:

Nike X and My Dead Hand (2019) is a video research project in Air Force Blue: the color of the sky on a clear day. Conflating a history of basketball sneaker design with the Cold War-era Nike Missile Defense system, the project began with two performative installations at Angel’s Gate/Fort MacArthur in San Pedro, CA. Today a public park sits on this former Nike military site charged with protecting Los Angeles from aerial attack, where a basketball court in the clouds has become an iconic location for filming fantasies of flight, indestructibility and arch support. A couple yards away lies the Korean Bell of Friendship, a gift from the South Korean government, sending reverberations from the apocalyptic militarism of the 1950’s to present-day tensions on the Korean peninsula. Nike is the Greek goddess of victory: a metaphor useful to branding both sporting goods and national security. As the project spirals outwards, it attempts to excavate a shared language of sports, capitalism and war, paying close attention to the racial dynamics of basketball celebrity in America.

Nina Sarnelle (they/she) makes research projects, participatory performances, music composition, video and sculpture. They earned a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and recently had a solo video exhibition at the New Museum. Her work has also shown at Whitechapel Gallery (London), Hammer Museum (LA), Getty Center (LA), Ballroom Marfa (TX), MoMA (NY), Istanbul Modern (Turkey), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin), Museum of Art, Architecture & Technology (Lisbon), Fundacion PROA (Buenos Aires), Black Cube (Denver), UNSW Galleries (Sydney), Project 88 (Mumbai), Kevin Space (Vienna), Mwoods (Beijing), and Human Resources (LA).

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