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Performances at MOCA

Past Performances


2026

Diane Severin Nguyen, WAR SONGS, 2025/2026, performance documentation, February 27, 2026, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Photo by Josh Rose.

MOCA Focus: Diane Severin Nguyen
WAR SONGS, 2025-2026
West Coast Premiere
Friday, February 27, 2026, 7:30-9pm
Saturday, February 28, 2026, 7:30-9pm
Sunday, March 1, 2026, 6:00-7:30pm


2025

Nadya Tolokonnikova, POLICE STATE, (2025). Performance documentation from The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Image by Yulia Shur. Courtesy of MOCA.

Odeya Nini, Healing Voice of Deep Release
A vocal embodiment workshop and sound bath
Sunday, December 6, 2025, 2–4pm

Odeya Nini, ODE
Featuring MMOONN (Odeya Nini, Nicolas Snyder, and Max Jaffe)

Saturday, December 5, 2025, 7-8.30pm

Mindy Seu, A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET, 2025
West Coast Premiere
Saturday, November 15, 2025, 7-8.30pm

Lenio Kaklea, The Birds, 2025
November 7–9, 2025

MOCA Music
August 9, 2025

Nadya Tolokonnikova (Pussy Riot)
POLICE STATE
World Premiere
June 5 – June 21, 2025

Nadya Tolokonnikova (Pussy Riot)
POLICE STATE: Panel & Pussy Riot Siberia Performance
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Milka Djordjevich, Bob
West Coast Premiere
May 9–May 10, 2025

Wael Shawky: Drama 1882
February 16 – March 16, 2025


2024

The Comet / Poppea, 2024. Performance documentation from The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Image by Austin Richey, courtesy of MOCA and The Industry.

Dynasty Handbag, Titanic Depression
November 15–November 17, 2024

Democracy Sessions
Presented by MOCA and Wild Up
November 8–November 10 2024

Resonant Architecture
Featuring Carmina Escobar, Sharon Chohi Kim, and Jasmine Orpilla
October 26, 2024

Ellen Fullman and Theresa Wong, Soundless
Presented by MOCA, Fulcrum Arts, and Chapman University
October 18–October 19, 2024

BUILD THIS HOUSE
Presented by MOCA and Banjee Ball Foundation
Featuring Isla Cheadle, Michael Roberson, and Kevin JZ Prodigy among others
October 4–October 5, 2024

The Comet/Poppea
An opera presented by MOCA and The Industry
June 14–June 23, 2024


2023

Ligia Lewis, A Plot/A Scandal, 2022 . ©Moritz Freudenberg.

Moriah Evans, Remains Persist
West Coast Premiere
October 28–November 4 2023

Open Class: Organ Work
With Moriah Evans & Collaborators
November 4, 2023 & October 29, 2023

1x1 Resignation Clinics
With Moriah Evans & Collaborators
November 1, 2023

KINK OUT: EPHEMERA
Closing Celebration
Septmeber 30, 2023

KINK OUT: EPHEMERA
Working Girls: The Blade. A Conversation About Street Based Sex Work
Septmeber 28, 2023

KINK OUT: EPHEMERA
Workshop: Bootblacking, Rope, and Impact Play
September 21, 2023

KINK OUT: EPHEMERA
Artist Talk with Sheree Rose
September 14, 2023

KINK OUT: EPHEMERA
Affinity Tuesdays
September 12–September 26, 2023

KINK OUT: EPHEMERA
Opening Celebration
September 9, 2023

KINK OUT: EPHEMERA
Residency
September 9–October 1, 2023

MOCA x Insomniac & Secret Project Present
Party/After-Party Sessions
July 22, 2023

SORORITY: NOT ME
a series of character studies organzied by gina young
July 13, 2023

MOCA x Insomniac & Secret Project Present
Party/After-Party Sessions
June 17, 2023

KCHUNG PUBLIC: Movement
June 10, 2023

Soup & Tart: Los Angeles
June 8, 2023

Kinlaw, Crux: A Panel on Communication and Process, 2023
June 3, 2023

Kinlaw, Crux, 2023
Workshop
June 1, 2023

MOCA x Insomniac & Secret Project Present
Party/After-Party Sessions
May 25, 2023

Scent Rave: New Variations on Scent, Art, and Community
Organized with Maxwell Williams of UFO Parfums
May 14, 2023

Ligia Lewis, A Plot/A Scandal, 2022
May 5–May 6 2023

KCHUNG PUBLIC: Growth
April 22, 2023

Carl Craig Artist Talk
April 20, 2023

KCHUNG PUBLIC: Love Song
Featuring Chief Adjuah formerly Christian Scott
February 25, 2023

KCHUNG PUBLIC: Care
A Radio Play Festival
January 21, 2023


2022

Still from the feature documentary Art & Krimes by Krimes directed by Alysa Nahmias. An AJNA Films production.

Art and Krimes by Krimes
December 9, 2022

Better Balance: Imagining equity among humanity and the natural world
December 4, 2022

Healing through Movement with Tatiana Zamir
December 4, 2022

Visual AIDS, Being & Belonging
December 3, 2022

The G Spot
Organized by Rio Uribe of Gypsy Sport
November 20, 2022

An Only Child, Go to your room
November 19, 2022

Containment and Community: The History of Skid Row and its Role in the Downtown Community Plan
November 17, 2022

KCHUNG PUBLIC: Comment
November 12, 2022

Envisioning a Safer Future: An Art Making Workshop with Compton G.IRLS Club
November 12, 2022

Healing through Movement with Tatiana Zamir
November 4, 2022

Blacktronika: Now Is The Time Festival
Organized with King Britt
October 30, 2022

Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels with L.A Dance Project and MOCA presents Dimitri Chamblas, Slow Show
October 25, 2022

Live Arts Exchange [LAX] Festival: Works in Process, Jasmine Orpilla + Mark Golamco + Jobel Medina
October 20, 2022

Live Arts Exchange [LAX] Festival: Paul Outlaw & Joe Seely, DUET
October 17, 2022

KCHUNG PUBLIC: Witches and Witch Hunts: A Salon.
October 8, 2022

KCRW Summer Nights at MOCA Geffen & JANM with DJs Anthony Valadez + Wyldeflower
September 29, 2022

REMOTE
A Film by Mika Rottenberg & Mahyad Tousi
September 24–October 30, 2022

KCRW Summer Nights at MOCA Geffen & JANM with DJs Valida + Scott Dallavo
September 22, 2022

Art + Yoga with Marley Rae
September 16, 2022–February 16, 2023

Fall Open House
September 10, 2022

Music/Theory
Organized with Mandy Harris Williams
June 25, 2022

SPINNING
June 17, 2022

Memory-Material
June 9–12, 2022

International Whores’ Day 2022
June 2, 2022

SPINNING
May 21, 2022

HI, SOLO #11
Organized with Alexsa Durrans and Miles Brenninkmeijer
May 20–21, 2022

Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor
April 29–30, 2022

SPINNING
April 16, 2022

God Particle Quartet: Dr. Stephon Alexander, Melvin Gibbs, Jaron Lanier, and Will Calhoun
April 10, 2022

Eternal Spa
Organized with QNA
April 2, 2022

SPINNING
March 19, 2022

Wonmi’s WAREHOUSE Programs is organized by Alex Sloane, Associate Curator, and is produced by Amelia Charter, Producer of Performance and Programs, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.


Wonmi's WAREHOUSE Programs is made possible by generous endowment support from Wonmi & Kihong Kwon and Family.

Performances at MOCA are supported by the MOCA Fund for Performance with generous funding provided by Betsy Greenberg and The Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund.

Wonmi's WAREHOUSE Programs is founded by Wonmi & Kihong Kwon and Family.