Please. Stay. Touch. Jess Curtis Experiments with Gravity — Maria Silk: Activation Stage Programs

@ • About • Event Details • About the Artist • Plan Your Visit • RESERVE SPACE PLEASE. STAY. TOUCH. JESS CURTIS EXPERIMENTS WITH GRAVITY — MARIA SILK: ACTIVATION STAGE PROGRAMS PRESENTED BY FORT MASON ART The exhibition PLEASE. STAY. TOUCH. Jess Curtis Experiments with GRAVITY includes an Activation Stage led by artists-in-residence whom Curtis mentored. Each artist serves as a curator-facilitator-performer for events, performances, and happenings that engage deeply with Curtis’s legacy and archive. Each artist presents a program that also extends Curtis’s commitment to inclusive, innovative performance practice and embodied presence. ABOVE: Jess Curtis. Photo: Robbie Sweeny. TOP OF PAGE: Maria Silk. Photo-Illustration: Robbie Sweeny EVENT DETAILS Wednesday, July 1 , 2026 “Bodies of Work: Bay Area Kink and Queer Conversation” with Xandra Ibarra, Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, and Maria Silk 6:00 p.m. Store House Gallery walk-through 7:00 p.m. Talk in Fire House See Reservation link below Maria Silk invites legendary artists, collaborators, and Ecosexual co-founders Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens to join Oakland, CA-based artist Xandra Ibarra in a conversation about their own practices, rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area’s rich history of experiments in sexuality, performance, and art.  Saturday, July 11, 2026 Screwball (work-in-progress showing) featuring Maria Silk 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Store House Gallery See Reservation link below Maria Silk performs a work-in-progress version of her new solo Screwball. Inspired by the 1973 text The Screwball Asses by Christian Maurel (originally published anonymously as Les culs énergumènes), the piece explores the relationship of sexuality and desire to systems of domination. ABOUT THE ARTIST Maria Silk (b. 1993) is an artist based in San Francisco. Centered on performance, her practice examines themes of collectivity and friction within queer and trans life as well as received narratives around queer history and identity. A 2017 danceWEB Scholar at ImPulsTanz, Silk has shown work locally and internationally at the Berkeley Art Museum, the Cantor Center for the Arts, CounterPulse, Slash, Southern Exposure, Fierce! Festival (Birmingham, U.K,), and Improspekcije (Zagreb, Croatia). She is known as a very good sport. PLAN YOUR VISIT DATE Wednesday, July 1, 2026 Satruday, July 11, 1026 TIME Wednesday, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturday, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. The Storehouse, Building D, First Floor and the Firehouse, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, 2 Marina Boulevard, San Francisco COST FREE to $10 sliding scale Maria Silk: MariaSilk.com Miss.Silk.Worm@gmail.com • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn • YouTube Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens: SprinkleStephens.UCSC.edu AnnieSprinkle.org ElizabethStephens.org EarthLabSF.org BethStephens@me.com info@EarthLabSF.org SprinkleStephensFilms@gmail.com BethAndAnnie@SexEcology.org • Facebook • Instagram • Instagram • Instagram • Threads • X • X Xandra Ibarra: XandraIbarra.com LaChicaBoom@gmail.com • Instagram • Vimeo RESERVE SPACE SHARE • Facebook • X • Mail SIGN UP FOR OUR E-NEWS Sign up today for the latest news from Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture.