Communicator Series no. 7
Performed at
Poetic Research Bureau
Los Angeles, California
13 November 2024
Curated by
Emji Saint Spero
Sound by
jeremy kennedy
Modular. Crossfaded. Suspended between lavender surveillance and transcendent witness, Communicator Series no. 7 presents new work by Anna Luisa Petrisko, Ryat Yezbick w/ Linda Franke, and Bay Area artist J Rivera Pansa. Wednesday November 13th, 7:30pm at Poetic Research Bureau.
Free / RSVP
About the Artists
J Rivera Pansa (they/them) a transdisciplinary artist based in Huichin Ohlone Land (Oakland, CA). Their work incorporates sculpture, text, and performance as an expansive grid field tethering associations involving connectivity and modular systems. Rivera Pansa completed their BA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley.
They have exhibited solo and group presentations at Et Al. Gallery (San Francisco, CA), / (Slash) Art (San Francisco, CA), Best Western Gallery (Santa Fe, NM), Pied-à-terre (San Francisco, CA), Nook Gallery (Oakland, CA), NIAD Art Center (Richmond, CA), Lane Meyer Projects (Denver, CO), BAMPFA (Berkeley, CA) among others.
Ig @j_pansa
Image credit: Rich Lomibao
Anna Luisa Petrisko (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist working in experimental opera, video art, publishing, sculpture, sound, and performance. She investigates the body as a site of paradox - transcendent of time, space and form. Her work is grounded in community and archiving histories. She collaborates with many artists and friends. These shared works build relationships and cultural communion. Her most recent opera, All Time Stop Now, is a contemplation on listening, impermanence, and kinship. All Time Stop Now premiered at REDCAT and the music was released on Practical Records.
Ryat Yezbick is a visual artist who explores the body, memory, and the politics of witnessing in the era of digital surveillance and decentralized global conflict. Figuring their lived experience centrally in their work, Yezbick addresses a complex set of questions around security, gender, home, family, love, violence, power, and responsibility within the context of the crumbling U.S. empire. They work in a variety of mediums—notably live performance, experimental documentary, installation, new media, and drawing—that have garnered support from audiences and curators internationally. They are a published author, multi-time grant recipient, and faculty member in the Narrative and Emerging Media Program at Arizona State University. They are currently a MIT Open Documentary Lab Fellow and ONX Studio Fellow.
Their work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, Melbourne, Glasgow, and Athens, and in notable group exhibitions and performances at the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Los Angeles), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Materials & Applications (Los Angeles), Human Resources (Los Angeles), The Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart), The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Glasgow International 2018 (Glasgow), The Banff Center for the Arts and Creativity (Banff), Gertrude Contemporary (Melbourne), Space One (Seoul), the Bangkok Biennial MAHA Pavilion (Bangkok), LAXART (Los Angeles), Craft Contemporary (Los Angeles), and the Queer Biennial (Los Angeles).