Performed at
Poetic Research Bureau
Los Angeles, California
13 February 2024
Curated by
Emji Saint Spero
Sound by
Jeremy Kennedy
Communicator Series returns to Poetic Research Bureau on Tuesday February 13th for an evening of research performance and hybrid disidentifcations by Wye Coday and Emily Lucid, and the premiere of Neverland Meltdown, a new video by Patty Gone.
Emily Lucid’s the ghost of my physical body will be a gesture between Lucid’s disposable, putrid transgender body and the classical, oppressive and pure body of a white male horse. The Greeks believed that horses were created by Poseidon, god of the sea, and occasionally horses were sacrificed to the god by drowning. In the ghost of my physical body Lucid continues to explore the intersection of movement, information and trans feminist internal tragedy through her experimental performance practice.
Wye Coday will read passages from THE ABOMINATION, a chimeric multimedia lecture performance that examines the hormonal condition known as begging along with the devastating repercussions of having one’s reproductive organs removed or surgically modified at birth.
About the Artists
Wye Coday is intersex and autistic. She lives between Los Angeles and Chicago, where she is a practicing financial dominatrix.
Coday describes her practice as "research performance" and offers her labor as a “unique instance of Black melancholy." Her work spans legal interventions, essays and contemporary folk tales, unorthodox disability accommodations, lecture-performances, and photography.
In 2020, Coday was named as a columnist-in-residence at Open Space, SFMOMA's online writing platform. In 2021, she received an emerging artist grant from the California Arts Council and published 4 INSTRUMENTS, an excerpt from her in-progress novella, with Apogee Graphics. Nightboat Books anthologized another excerpt in WE WANT IT ALL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF RADICAL TRANS POETICS (2021). In 2023, Dirt published RESEARCH, a third installment of the novella.
Her writing has appeared in Into, The Avery Review, Open Space (SFMOMA), X-TRA, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and her sculpture and photography were included in Red Wedding at Ruschman in Chicago.
Patty Gone is a performer, poet, video artist, and scholar. She is the author of Love Life (Mount Analogue, 2019) and her writing has appeared in publications including The Believer, Art Papers, Hyperallergic, and Boston Review. She has performed or exhibited her work at the Queens Museum, The Poetry Project, Mass MoCA, Human Resources, REDCAT, and Porn Film Festival Berlin. She lives in Los Angeles.
Emily Lucid is a Jewish trans female thinker and maker living with schizoaffective disorder. Lucid focuses primarily on the question of ‘performance’. A graduate of California Institute of The Arts: Lucid is an experimental writer, performance artist, visual artist, sound artist, curator and actor. Lucid’s work deals with her interest in transgender rights, psychology, technology and beauty. She has read, performed, curated and exhibited at galleries, theaters, web portals and festivals across Los Angeles and beyond.