Second Helpings is a group visual art exhibition, a “fatinee” of multidisciplinary performance, and a queer intervention into American popular culture’s understanding of the fat body as a deviant body. Exhibiting artists fight the stigmatization of fat bodies, radically re-envision the notion of body diversity, and destabilize deeply embedded hierarchies of desire. A new theatrical work humorously addresses the correlation between body shame and cultural imperialism. A 5-piece band named after pastries snacks ritualistically onstage; a debut video work explores racialized and gendered experiences of fat-phobia; a chubby drag queen pushes back on the ways her body is treated as a dystopian object of desire—come ravenous. Help yourself.
Where: SOMArts, 934 Brannan St.
Admission: $12
Contact: (415) 863-1414 • info@somarts.org