Communicator Series no. 6
Performed at
Poetic Research Bureau
Los Angeles, California
8 October 2024
Curated by
Emji Saint Spero
Sound by
jeremy kennedy
Sharpen your stilettos for the return of Communicator Series. Pull up with your polycule. Valet your delicately-constructed emotional invalidation, and check your authenticity at the door. Performances by artists Tyler Holmes and Page Person, in collaboration with Die Anna, auto-cosplay trauma in a spiral of haptic dissolution and absurdist, electric autobiography....in the process, transforming architectures of isolation into otherworldly intimacies. Tuesday October 8th, 7:30pm at Poetic Research Bureau.
7:30pm Doors
8pm Performances
Free / RSVP
Installation
Foment yr fomo for Communicator Series: Season One with a special area installation displaying photography by Maria Ramirez-Adams alongside curated ephemeral traces by Emji Saint Spero. Intermittent salon and reception woven throughout the evening.
About the Artists
Tyler Holmes’ work reminds us that we are always in one spiral or another; spiraling out in exasperation, downward out of despondency, or inward toward oneself. The Wire calls Holmes’ work ‘Beautiful, at times frightening, confronting listeners and their complacency while holding space for a collective catharsis.’ They perform with a constantly changing electro-acoustic arrangement exploring what humanity is left in electronic music, always finding new ways to showcase an intimate horror. They released their most recent LP ‘Nightmare In Paradise’ in 2021 on Ratskin Records. Most recently Holmes' released their music video "To Accept" via Paper Magazine.
Page Person (M. Page Greene, 1972, Atlanta) is a visual and performing artist based in Los Angeles. Their work has been exhibited in galleries including Peres Projects, Stuart Shave/Modern Art and Deitch Projects; museums such as the Hammer Museum, The New Museum, DESTE Foundation, Kunsthalle Schirn, and Kunsthalle Vien. Person’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, Frieze, The New York Times, The Believer, Artillery, Flash Art, The Wall Street Journal, and the Village Voice. They have taught at the University of California Los Angeles, Art by DTLA Proud and the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
Their work is in the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Frank Cohen Collection, DESTE Foundation, and the Luckman Gallery of Los Angeles City College. Person has performed at the Hammer Museum, the Broad Museum, Highways Performance Space, LAXART, Glasslands, Los Angeles LGBT Center, Human Resources, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, and in queer nightlife spaces throughout Los Angeles.
Their solo exhibition 100% Person is on view at Noon Projects through October 19, 2024.