The Flood Becomes An evening with Jax Neal

Lawndale Art & Performance Center will present The Flood Becomes: an evening with Jax Neal on Saturday, August 16 at 4 PM in John M. O’Quinn Gallery. During the program, writer and performance artist Neal will read excerpts from his essays and poetry which touch on environmental disaster, queer hopelessness, and humanity in the face of disaster. These works explore Neal’s childhood growing up on the Gulf Coast and the region’s precarious relationship to water. Neal reflects: “artists are known to make, to do, and—for me—to move. But, in this work, I want to do the opposite: to sit down, to undo, to remove, and to look at what is left.“

Pictured is a still image from the performance work Four Rituals for my Sadness, 2023, image courtesy of the artist.

The Flood Becomes is supported in part by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.