Communicator Series no. 11
Performed at
Poetic Research Bureau
Los Angeles, California
8 April 2025
Curated by
Emji Saint Spero
Sound by
jeremy kennedy
Video by
Nina Sarnelle
Communicator Series no. 11 invites you to unravel in the aftermath, destabilizing lineages of personal and collective loss through irreverent temporalities, wry vulnerability, and gestural discord. Presenting transdisciplinary performances by Sasha Forests, Miguel Gutierrez, and Sebastian Hernandez. Tuesday April 8th, 7pm at Poetic Research Bureau.
7pm Doors
7:30pm Performances
Free / RSVP
About the Artists
Sasha Forests is a multi-hyphenate artist writing and creating across genres within music, film, memoir, fiction, and more in Los Angeles, for the time being. Her work is about desire, nature, violence, survival, cults, and covers a lot of ground in form and feeling. There’s something messy about Sasha that betrays discomfort and anxiety within performance, and something clear and axial supporting her whole endeavor.
Miguel Gutierrez (he/him) is an artist and educator living between Lenapehoking/ Brooklyn, NY and Tovaangar/Los Angeles. Recent performance work includes Super Nothing, a dance blueprint for queer survival developed through the Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist program at New York Live Arts, and a music project called sueño. His work has been presented internationally for over twenty years in venues such as Festival D’Automne in Paris, REDCAT, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Festival Universitario in Colombia, and as a selected artist in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. His writing has appeared in BOMB online, Small Press Traffic’s The Back Room, InDance, and most recently in SLUTS anthology from Dopamine Press and in Entanglements, a monograph on work by collaborative artists Luke George and Daniel Kok. His podcast, Are You For Sale? examines the ethical entanglement between dance making and funding.
Sebastian Hernandez (b. 1990, Los Angeles) is a multi-disciplinary artist and DJ. They hold a B.A. in Art Practice and Dance & Performance Studies from UC Berkeley. Hernandez explores mediums like movement, sculpture, performance, photography, creative writing, and DJing, often through feminist, queer, indigenous, and gender theoretical frameworks. Their work examines Mexican and Chicano narratives, drawing from their Mexica (Aztec) heritage, queer club culture, and the history of the brown body in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Hernandez’s movement practice blends danza Mexica, Vogue, and modern dance techniques like GAGA and Afro Modern. They have collaborated with artists in various fields, presenting work at venues like REDCAT, MOCA, ICA LA, and Performance Space New York. In 2020, Hernandez received the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Award.