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 for community safety, and alternative forms of care. Join us at i wouldn’t do that for readings and performances by Mara Hassan, edua mercedes, Max Power, Emji Saint Spero, and Maxelle Talena. Sunday November 10th, 7pm at Melrose Botanical Garden. Curated by Mara Hassan.
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.
UpMoon Station at KCHUNG PUBLIC | 1-3pm May 17, 2023 | Join us in the red hot trailer outside MOCA Geffen for not-so-soft debut of UpMoon Station, a new terrestrial audio project of Jeremy Kennedy + Emji Saint Spero
Get wrecked with videos of two deranged, poetic performances at Device Grip, a poetry and performance series in Tucson, as part of The Post-Elevator Tour NxSW with Jeremy Kennedy.
The Post-Elevator Tour returns to the tune of sand salons, petrified radio, and oasitic dérives. Emji Saint Spero and fellow LA-based artist jeremy kennedy will be cruising the Southwest this November for a series of poetic, performative, and sonic, multi-orgasmic experiences to celebrate the release of their new books disgust and A Gamble in this Dress.
The Post-Elevator Tour presents jeremy kennedy and Emji Saint Spero | 7-9pm Monday November 7th at Verbatim Books in San Diego | Featuring performances by Kazim Ali and NM Esc
This limited edition oversexed food-centric 30-minute cassette tape features a play in four acts co-written and performed by Emji Saint Spero and Jeremy Kennedy. Includes 10” x 15” potentially erotic poster insert of the artists with silk slip, thong reveal, and behind-the-back knife-sharpener experience. A P/Sicho Street Theatre Company production.
east window SOUTH will host UNHEALTHY PRACTICES: A Show of Disgust, an international group exhibit on the theme of disgust, curated by Todd Edward Hermann. The images and texts which comprise this exhibit freely explore issues of bodily function, ownership, control, choice or lack thereof. We see works grappling with violated physical and social borders and hierarchies; the violation of gender boundaries and fluidity; notions of contagion, purity, wellness, disease and how such constructs may be used to ostracize unwanted members of various social groups. What do these representations of our bodies, belongings and psyches, seen through the lens of disgust, really mean to us, that we should impose such powerful and dangerous abstractions upon them? What roles can disgust play in re-shaping other less negative social interactions and in constructing social values that are in turn supportive of those interactions?
BOMB Magazine presents “The Quotidian is Electric and Alive: A Conversation by Angel Dominguez and Emji Saint Spero.” The authors discuss their new books, Desgraciado and disgust, two poetry collections that are radical acts of correspondence.
