Wrap-up: Womxn in Windows, Kilo Kish & Autumn Breon

As we wrap up our MOCA culture:LAB collaboration with Womxn In Windows, join us for two special performances by artists Kilo Kish and Autumn Breon.

Kilo Kish presents Natural Resources
Natural Resources is a performance work by Kilo Kish, created in collaboration with choreographer Morgan Amirah-Burns and composer Ray Brady, following their 2022 piece Still—Dreaming. The work consists of three music and movement “sketches” that examine the body as both archive and apparatus—one that stores ancestral memory while speeding towards the mechanized rhythms of contemporary life. The piece traces the emotional circuitry of labor, effort, and survival, framing personal burnout as a reflection of the planet’s own exhaustion. This mirrored depletion asks how both body and land might be reprogrammed—not to restore what was, but to imagine what could be. Natural Resources invites us to witness the delicate entanglement between internal landscapes and environmental realities, and to consider repair and rest as both a personal and planetary pursuit.

Autumn Breon presents Truth Be Told
Truth Be Told follows Cassandra, a Trojan priestess from Greek mythology. Cursed to always speak the truth but never be believed, Cassandra is reimagined here as a time traveler—one of many women throughout history gifted with the ability to compress time, foresee paradigm shifts, and invite society into new realities. From abolition to intersectionality, Black women have long been cultural clairvoyants, articulating visions of justice that once seemed far-fetched but later proved transformative.

Arriving from Planet Esoterica—300 light-years from Inglewood—Autumn Breon returns to Los Angeles with a ritual of prophecy and confession. Audience members are invited to share a confession and, in return, receive a prophecy. Accompanied by the powerful sounds of the Black Fist Brass Band, this exchange transforms the performance into a collective act of witnessing, testifying, and conjuring futures that demand to be believed.

Truth Be Told Credits & Collaborators:
Music: Black Fist Brass Band
Movement Direction: Kaitlyn B. Jones

MOCA culture:LAB supports the production and dissemination of culture, embracing experimentation through collaboration and collective imagination. Whether forging new community partnerships with emerging groups or amplifying those who are already making significant contributions to the field, culture:LAB moves beyond the walls of the museum into the ever-evolving cultural landscape of Los Angeles to explore pathways toward artistic action and innovation informed by issues of our time.

Womxn in Windows is a platform for the perspectives of women on culture, identity and society. What started as an annual public exhibition of women-made art films in storefront windows is now on a mission to support intergenerational and cross-cultural dialogue. WxW has been regarded by the LA Times as 'a video art show made for this moment' and by LA Weekly as 'an installation that challenges conventions of female representation'. Through the years WxW has shown the works of digital artists and filmmakers such as Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, Martine Syms, Ja'tovia Gary, Kilo Kish, Alima Lee, Christine Yuan, Yumna Al Arashi & Arshia Fatima Haq among many others.

KILO KISH is an interdisciplinary artist working in music, film, installation, performance, and the written word. Her work is characterized by existentialism, absurdity and humor, explored through popular media formats like songs and music videos. Her work has been featured in Vogue, W Magazine, The New York Times, Pitchfork, Dazed, The Guardian, and Billboard, among others. Her films have screened at the Getty Center, The Hammer Museum, and the Museum of Image and Sound in Brazil.

Autumn Breon is a multidisciplinary artist who investigates the visual vocabulary of liberation through a queer Black feminist lens. Using performance, sculpture, and public installation, Breon invites audiences to examine intersectional identities and Diasporic memory. Breon imagines her work as immersive invitations for the public to join in the reimagining and creation of systems that make current oppressive systems obsolete. Breon has created commissions for Target, Art Production Fund, Frieze Art Fair, and the ACLU of Southern California. Breon’s performance history includes Hauser & Wirth, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the Water Mill Center. She is an alumna of Stanford University where she studied Aeronautics & Astronautics and researched aeronautical astrobiology applications. Breon is a recipient of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart Fellowship for Abolition & the Advancement of the Creative Economy and the Race Forward Fellowship for Housing, Land, and Justice.

This program is organized by Justen Leroy, Director of Public Programs and Community Outreach, and Alitzah Oros, Public Programming Associate, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.