Communicator Series
Poetic Research Bureau
2220 Arts + Archives
2220 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90057
Curated by
Emji Saint Spero
Sound by
jeremy kennedy
Video + Photo
Donna Dolore
Gentry McShane
Maria Ramirez-Adams
Nina Sarnelle
Communicator Series is a platform for queer and trans* artists whose practice is situated in-between, troubling the boundaries between poetry, archive, performance, activism, and collective intimacies. We're here for work that is switchy, vers, and language-curious, that teases the edges of form as a poetic strategy of becoming otherwise. Attempts, failure, and works-in-progress encouraged.
Curated by Emji Saint Spero, Communicator Series is presented monthly in collaboration with Poetic Research Bureau at 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles, California.
2025
Communicator Series presents PROXY | February 11, 7pm
Arianne Ayu Alizio (on behalf of Creighton Baxter)
Erin Desmond (on behalf of Selby Sohn)
chris mckelway (on behalf of manuel arturo abreu)
Communicator Series no. 10 | March 11, 7pm
D.Hill, Erica Dawn Lyle, Huntrezz Janos
Communicator Series no. 11 | April 8, 7pm
Sasha Forests, Miguel Gutierrez, Sebastian Hernandez
Communicator Series x Writing on Raving | May 23, 7pm
McKenzie Wark, Zoey Greenwald, Jasmine Infiniti, Kumi James (BAE BAE), Michelle Lhooq
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Communicator Series no. 13 | July 8, 7pm
imogen xtian smith, Candle Christensen, K Bradford
2024
Communicator Series no. 1 | January 9, 7pm
Andrea Abi-Karam, Violet Spurlock, Sammie Veeler
Communicator Series no. 2 | February 13, 7pm
Wye Coday, Patty Gone, Emily Lucid
Communicator Series no. 3 | March 12, 7pm
crystal jiko, Z.No Scott., Thalia Williamson
Communicator Series no. 4 | April 16, 7pm
jeremy kennedy, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, Sheree Rose
Communicator Series no. 5 | May 13, 7pm
Ajani Brannum, Pau S. Pescador, Leila Weefur
Communicator Series no. 6 | October 8, 7:30pm
Tyler Holmes, Page Person w/ Die Anna
Season One Exhibition: Photography by Maria Ramirez-Adams, alongside curated ephemeral traces by Emji Saint Spero
Communicator Series no. 7 | November 13, 7:30pm
J Rivera Pansa, Anna Luisa Petrisko, Ryat Yezbick w/ Linda Franke
Communicator Series no. 8 | December 10, 7pm
Mason J, Punitive Worm, Cedric Tai
Performance Archive
We’re in the process of creating a publicly-accessible digital Communicator Series archive—an unstable collection of photo, video, and audio documentation embracing the fragmented, incomplete, and ephemeral.
In the interim…
