*Lick, Stick, Leak* is a screening program of experimental works selected in conversation with artist Aimee Goguen, as an extension of her solo show, *Mountain of the Collapse*, on view at JOAN until December 17. The exhibition explores decay and decomposition in the city’s social and political architecture, combining older video and ceramic works dealing with abjection and the grotesque in relation to the body with new drawings, animations, and sculptures based on Goguen’s observations of the living and nonliving components of the built environment.

The program will be a matinee screening at 2220 Arts + Archives on November 20th, featuring a range of video works selected by Goguen and exhibition curator, Suzy Halajian, by eighteen local and international artists from the 1970s to today. With works by Julian Antonisz, Agua de Calzón, Nancy Buchanan, Ellen Cantor, Neha Choksi, Marie-Louise Ekman and Lars-Arne Hult, Aimee Goguen, KITE and Devin Ronneberg, Magnus Maxine, Olivia Mole, Alison Peery, Anthony Ramos, Christine Rebet, Tom Rees and Olivia Taussig, Lillian Scwhartz, and Amia Yokoyama.

Surreal and oftentimes humorous, the shorts challenge straightforward representations of reality and explore themes of corporeal vulnerability, highlighting the myriad ways that the body is unbounded, leaky, and always in flux. These works are placed in dialogue with the artist’s practice, expanding on her interests and material process by way of mess, grime, and sensual excess. The program also emphasizes the importance of community in Goguen’s creative practice: some of the participating artists Goguen has collaborated with in past videos, and others make up her broader sphere of influence and affinities.

(Image credit: Ellen Cantor, *Bambi’s Beastly Buddies* (still), 2004, 14:50 min, color, sound. Courtesy of the Estate of Ellen Cantor and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York)

This is an all ages event.

Presented by JOAN and 2220 Arts

Mask not required

Distancing not required

Negative test (24 hours), Proof of vaccination

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