Communicator Series presents an evening of autotextual inquiry, sonic assemblage, and immersive exchange to celebrate the release of Writing on Raving, an anthology of fugitive encounters and ephemeral intimacies from the Brooklyn underground rave scene and beyond, edited by McKenzie Wark, Geoffrey Mak and Zoë Beery. Resisting both archival codification and the delulu utopias of the present tense, Writing on Raving enacts a critically dissociative practice of rupture. It reverberates in ambiguity, dehydrated and deconstructing...becoming, in a sense, the after after afters.

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 and the broader socio-political implications of raving in one of the world's strictest anti-drug countries. This film is part of a broader ongoing series about global rave scenes, and will be introduced by host Michelle Lhooq.

7pm Doors
7:30pm Performances

Free / RSVP

Writing on Raving is available at OR Books

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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
Presented in collaboration with Poetic Research Bureau at 2220 Arts + Archives 

Sound by jeremy kennedy
Video by Nina Sarnelle