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 curator-facilitator-performers 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. 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.

Wednesday, July 1 , 2026“Bodies of Work: Bay Area Kink and Queer Conversation” with Xandra Ibarra, Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, and Maria Silk6:00 p.m. Store House Gallery walk-through7:00 p.m.

Talk in Fire HouseSee 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, 2026Screwball (work-in-progress showing) featuring Maria Silk3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Store House GallerySee 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. 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. Wednesday, July 1, 2026Satruday, July 11, 1026 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 curator-facilitator-performers 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. \n