Multi-sensory, improvisational, chimeric, Communicator Series no.15 shrieks of speculative mythology. Performances by Ashton Phillips, local interdisciplinary shapeshifter, and New York-based artist Yvonne LeBien.
“8 Poetry Books That Distort and Manipulate Time” | Alex Moreno reviews on Emji Saint Spero’s book disgust in Electric Lit
Join us in ritually restaging the feral haptics of the present with performances by Los Angeles-based artists Vaughn Larsen and Nina Sarnelle. Communicator Series no. 14 is an invitation to reach between the fault lines of collective presence to touch the electric terror of becoming a we… i.e. nostalgia is for nymphos. i.e. let’s vibe.
Communicator Series no. 13 abandons the acceptable for the molten consequence of lush illegibility. Reanimate your wreckage with platinum-cured performances by imogen smith, K Bradford and Candle Christensen, and a body-inclusive fantasy sex toy pop-up by Slurp Toys, hand poured by Revé. Curated by Emji Saint Spero.
Consider this your cruel summer soft launch.
OUT NOW! 𝓐𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓪, 𝓪𝓷𝓭?, a new split single featuring Ariana "A.I." Grande remixes by dj again + clicks™. This B2B collider will shred your agit-fluff expectations in a swirl of synthetic heartbreak, glittery glitches, and AI emotions gone rogue…as Grande struggles to complete the captcha with a sneak aside from stunt-sister catpowerman5000.
Today is Bandcamp Friday so every dollar goes straight to the artists.
Stream it. Buy it. Own it.💥
Join us at LAST PROJECTS on Friday June 20th for the Opening of EDEN, a three-day-long experimental art happening, exhibition, and benefit for the TransLatin@ Coalition! Featuring performances by Emji Saint Spero, Oscar Corona, Emily Lucid and Wesleigh Gates, Edua Mercedes, and Sammie Veeler.
Communicator Series presents an evening of autotextual inquiry, sonic assemblage, and immersive exchange to celebrate the release of Writing on Raving. This event features hybrid performances by McKenzie Wark, Zoey Greenwald, Jasmine Infiniti, and Kumi James (aka BAE BAE), in concert with the LA debut of Rave New World’s mini-documentary on Singapore's queer cyberpunk rave Bussy Temple, hosted by Michelle Lhooq. Curated by Emji Saint Spero.
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. Curated by Emji Saint Spero.
This Sunday, I’m performing work from Five Year Plan for NNOOOO #3 at Cafe 2001. NNOOO is a hypersensory dopamine hit of simultaneous poetic happenings, experimental performances, sound art, movement, etc. Curated by Joseph Mosconi, David Horvitz, and Zara Schuster.
Communicator Series no. 10 offers performances by Erica Dawn Lyle, Huntrezz Janos, and D. Hill, in collaboration with Salvador de la Torre and a sound ensemble featuring Erika Regalado, Ian Vergara, Katie Sisk, and Ronaline Itchon. Curated by Emji Saint Spero.
Communicator Series is giving parasocial embodiment. This event invites manuel arturo abreu, Creighton Baxter, and Selby Sohn to create performances-by-proxy, entangled gestures to be enacted by Los Angeles-based artists…and you. Tuesday February 11th, 7:30pm at Poetic Research Bureau. Curated by Emji Saint Spero.
Dissonant presence. Strategic noncoherence. Communicator Series no. 8 offers witness-resistant poetic happenings for raw liberatory combustion. Join us Tuesday December 10th, 7pm at Poetic Research Bureau for performances by Punitive Worm, Cedric Tai, and San Francisco-based artist Mason J. You’re welcome.
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
Flickering intimacies. Fugitive strategies. Alternative forms of care. Join us for i wouldn’t do that on Sun November 10, 7pm at Melrose Botanical Garden.
Communicator Series no. 6 features performances by Tyler Holmes and Page Person, in collaboration with Die Anna, as well as a special area installation displaying photography by Maria Ramirez-Adams alongside ephemeral traces from Communicator Series: Season One. Reception/salon woven throughout the evening. Curated by Emji Saint Spero.
Join us in honoring the anniversary of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot at Trans* Temporal Resistances on August 24th, 5-7pm at CounterPulse. This performance series invites local artists J Rivera Pansa and Davia Spain to engage Queer Time as an embodied strategy of resistance, deconstructing trans* archives and architectures in conversation with TurkxTaylor Initiative’s exhibition, Transition Times II: Reconfiguring Structures of Power.
Co-curated by Emji Saint Spero and Leila Weefur
Liminal Space SF presents Public Redaction: Select Works from Deselected Collections, an immersive staging of collaborative works by Los Angeles based artists Emji Saint Spero + Jeremy Kennedy, offered up in grand banal gestures as an invitation towards complicity, as cute captioning for collective witness. Curated by Sam Claude Carmel.
Trans Temporal Resistances invite writers and artists to deconstruct trans archives and architectures through textual and movement-based approaches. Situated within a district in which desire has historically been boundaried and confined, these performances engage Queer Time as an embodied strategy of resistance. Co-curated by Emji Saint Spero and Leila Weefur.
Pre-medicated. Irreverent. Cutty and sprung. Communicator Series no. 4 activates with calculated precision, in spite and solidarity. Tuesday April 16th, 7pm, at Poetic Research Bureau. Performances by jeremy kennedy and Bay Area artist Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta negotiate incoherence and insurrectionary strategies for dismembering linearity...i.e. if it can exist it must exist. Devotedly yours.
para by para is an immersive (hyper)active listening party featuring a durational improvised performance by Slow Rose and a disjunctive two-channel composition by jeremy +/- kennedy (d.j. again) with projection by John Dawson and Alee Peoples. Curated by Emji Saint Spero.
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.
Join us at Cantor Arts Center for an evening of performance, discussion, music, and readings to celebrate the release of the book Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects.
Join us Tuesday January 9th at Poetic Research Bureau for the debut of Communicator Series, featuring performances by Andrea Abi-Karam, Violet Spurlock, and Sammie Veeler to celebrate the launch of Spurlock’s first book In Lieu of Solutions, recipient of Futurepoem’s Other Futures Award.
Alsea Diana Is Depicting Violence Against Women | An Immersive Interactive Installation at Human Resources LA
Opening: Sat Sept 16, 5-8pm
On view: Sept 16 - Oct 28, 2023
Pescador's artwork explores her relationship to the world beyond her inner psyche, often told through playful interactions and interventions. When the home becomes body is centered around the domestic sphere and her relationship to the concept of home throughout her gender transition. The exhibition is broken into three collections of work: two bodies of photographs When the home becomes body and Home is where the c*nt is, as well a single-channel video If I can’t go home again, then call me by my name b*tch!
In all three bodies of work the viewer watches the artist play with toy-like objects alongside her body as she questions her own physical, emotional and legislative safety outside her front door. What is the role of home in times of such adversity? Is domestic a space of refuge from the outside world or has home become a self-enclosed prison where the artist is merely left alone within her own isolation?
This exhibition features an accompanying essay by Emji Saint Spero
Emji Saint Spero at Praxinoscope | 7-9pm August 11, 2023 | Writing Performance features by contemporary Los Angeles artists whose work is rooted in the written word. Limited edition risograph-printed broadsides will be on view and available at the event. Curated by Derek Denckla.
UpMoon Station at KCHUNG PUBLIC | 1-3pm August 19, 2023 | Join us in the red hot trailer outside MOCA Geffen for the chaotic lunar return of UpMoon Station, a terrestrial audio project of Jeremy Kennedy + Emji Saint Spero
The Post-Elevator Tour is BACK darling. Meet cute me + jeremy kennedy in Bloomington IN for The (f) of July Edition, a middlewest jaunt in our ongoing, extended-release event series. Join us for two whirlwind nights of performance + poetry to celebrate the opening of jeremy’s solo art show Every Day. Every Time. Happy Days. In the Life. at Backspace Gallery.
Celebrate trans* brilliance and Trans Pride with us at the Opening Reception of A Place to Stay , a group exhibition of nine Los Angeles artists whose selected works focus on themes of respite and themes of shelter.
IDEOLOGY. A series of virtual poetry workshops that transgress to impress, featuring creative prompts and performances by five of Millay Arts’ brilliant trans* and nonbinary alums. Curated by Emji Saint Spero.
