In Search of Baba Singh takes as its jumping off point the arrest record of Baba Singh, a laborer from Punjab, India, who was arrested in 1914 in California for 'infamous crimes against nature'; a statute that at the time would criminalize a range of sexual behaviors including homosexuality.
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Past Exhibitions
Michael Childers: Distortions
On:
Oct 20 2018 - Jan 27 2019
An exhibition of Michael Childers's surreal Distortions series
A grammar built with rocks
On:
Oct 13 - Dec 21 2018
This exhibition examines artistic practices that trace the racialized and gendered relationship between bodies and land
“I Almost Ran Over Liza Minnelli Today”: Colin Campbell and Lisa Steele in L.A., 1976–77
On:
Jul 8 - Sep 23 2018
This exhibition gathers together the pioneering works of Canadian video artists Colin Campbell and Lisa Steele made together in Venice Beach during the 1970s for the first time in Southern California
Lost & Found: Safer Sex Activism
On:
Mar 17 - Jul 1 2018
This exhibition examines thirty years of inspiring and defiant safer sex and harm reduction activism through the collections at ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
Transgender History in 99 Objects: Legends & Mythologies
On:
Mar 21 - Aug 1 2015
Organized by the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art, or MOTHA, Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects examines objects that hold significance in narrating the history of transgender communities.
M. Lamar: Funeral Doom Spiritual
On:
Apr 15 - Jul 30 2016
Drawing on Negro Spirituals that call for the end times, what Lamar calls Doom Spirituals, this installation at ONE Archives exhumes legacies of racial violence while longing for the forthcoming destruction of white supremacy
Memoirs of a Watermelon Woman
On:
Sep 3 - Dec 22 2016
An exhibition celebrating the legacy of queer filmmaker Cheryl Dunye and the twentieth anniversary of her seminal film The Watermelon Woman