SEASON LAUNCH PARTY

A CELEBRATION OF WHAT’S TO COME

SEP 19, 2025, 7:30 PM → ICA CENTRAL

Come celebrate the start of Project [BLANK]’s eighth season at ICA San Diego, with a fierce lineup of local female performers presenting work in dialogue with the museum’s NextGen 2025 exhibition of emerging voices. The evening features performance artist Allison Beaudry’s absurdist body-challenging works, violist Amy Cimini’s adventurous sound worlds, and vocalist Mariana Flores Bucio’s bold new explorations in voice. Join us for an evening of art, music, and community as we raise a glass to San Diego’s fearless creative spirit and kick off our bitchin’ new season.

meet the artists

ALLISON BEAUDRY
PERFORMANCE ART

Allison Beaudry’s works range from sculpture to durational performance. Her performances often employ scavenged objects related to beauty maintenance and physical fitness. She takes these objects back to her studio and changes their form and function to utilize within highly physical performances that question our perception of female bodies. Her performances are often physically draining, absurdly jarring, and humorous. These works examine the conflict between the innate human desire for meaning and the world’s abject indifference. By viewing absurdism through a feminist lens, she uses humor as a strategy to open a conversation regarding feminism and equality.

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AMY CIMINI
VIOLIST

While playing in noise bands and experimental projects for over 25 years, Cimini has developed a sonic palette for the amplified viola that combines overtone-rich distortion with percussive techniques nestled in reverb and delay effects meant to fill large acoustical spaces. Her music embraces noise abstraction as much as a tuneful directness, that evokes Cimini’s fellow experimental string players, historical protest musics and her early, enduring love of feminist punk. This is a personal, intimate music that questions how sound interacts with power, social organization and surveillance.

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MARIANA FLORES-BUCIO
VOCALIST

Mexperimental Music: Reimagining Roots, Identity and Singing is a creative research project rooted in experimentation, improvisation, and composition—and guided by intention, care, respect, historical awareness, and acceptance. Mexperimental engages with Mexican traditional musics that have accompanied me since childhood through Mariana’s family’s musical heritage. These musics have shaped her vocal techniques, musical taste and expressive idioms. Flores-Bucio will perform a solo version of Mexperimental, aiming to depart from the essential, the minimal, and honor the Mexican traditional musics that have formed her, using her voice as the central medium for expression, reflection, memory, and connection.

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