Today's Events | Dana Arts Center, Picker Art Gallery, 2nd Floor
The Picker Art Gallery cordially invites Colgate to the opening of X: Gender, Identity, Presence, starting at 6 p.m. in the Dana Arts Center. The evening concludes with the premiere of Death Spiral, a new performance by Nicki Duval and Robbie Trocchia, featuring figure skater Milk, at 7:30 p.m. in the Experimental Exhibition and Performance Space (EEP), located in Bernstein Hall.This opening reception takes place in coordination with Colgate’s Arts, Creativity, and Innovation Initiative, Living Writers, University Museums, and the Ryan Family Film Series as part of a broader Fall 2025 Queer X-travaganza, an evening celebrating queer and trans* visibility, creativity, and permanence in the arts, all taking place on Sept.11, 2025.About X: Gender, Identity, Presence Exhibition Hundreds of bills targeting trans* individuals are currently making their way through state legislative bodies. These range from bathroom bans to expulsion from sports teams to the denial of healthcare. Amid the increasingly hostile rhetoric and attempts to erase trans* and queer lives, the artists in this exhibition use a variety of media to tell powerful counternarratives about perseverance, vulnerability, and kinship among trans* and queer communities.The exhibition opens with a new live performance connecting art and athletics by Nicki Duval (they/them) and Robbie Trocchia (he/they), featuring figure skater Milk. Films exploring themes of transgender identity, visibility, bodies, and politics by multidisciplinary artist Cassils (he/they) are joined by an installation of exquisite cut-paper portraits by Antonius-Tín Bui (they/them). The works by these leading contemporary artists are complemented by a selection from the Picker collection that underlines the past, present, and future existence and vitality of trans* and queer artists.Picker Art Gallery would like to acknowledge the Colgate Arts Council for its generous support of X: Gender, Identity, Presence and its related programming.

Today's Events | Bernstein Hall, The Vault, Rm 102
Working with figure skater Milk, Robbie Trocchia and Nicki Duval add to their growing series of sporting collaborations with the self-reflexive performance Death Spiral, revealing the personal and vulnerable moments in collaborative processes. Drawing on theoretical and artistic influences from Jack Halberstam and Erica Rand to Gregg Araki, the performance reflects on, and playfully reframes, failures and shortcomings involved in art and athletics through an examination of figure skating.Colgate University’s Queer X-travaganza is an evening of programming celebrating trans* and queer expression and creativity in the literary, visual, and performing arts.Co-sponsored by Picker Gallery and Colgate Arts Council

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