The Post-Elevator Tour returns to the tune of sand salons, petrified radio, and oasitic dérives. I’ll be cruising the Southwest this November with fellow LA-based artist jeremy kennedy 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.
Nov 7 | Verbatim Books (San Diego)
Nov 9 | Trans/Space is Expanding at University of Arizona’s Institute for LGBT Studies (Tucson)
***This free workshop is available remotely via Zoom. Be sure to RSVP!
Nov 10 | Device Grip at Splinter Collective (Tucson)
Nov 12 | No Name Cinema (Santa Fe)
Nov 28 | Collecting Dust at Lulu (Las Vegas)
About the Artists
EMJI SAINT SPERO is a transqueer writer, performer, and pervert living in Los Angeles and co-founder of the Oakland-based small press Timeless, Infinite Light. Their practice: a series of approaches, weaving together personal ephemera with documentation of queer life to create site-responsive events that imagine new embodied modes of connection. Through movement and collaborative performance, they seek to create conditions that invite the unexpected and cultivate critical openness as a practice of social engagement. They are co-developmental editor for We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, and the author of almost any shit will do and disgust .
JEREMY KENNEDY is an active sound-maker, co-founder, playwright, and performer with P/Sicho Street Theater Company. They have been creating and exhibiting art and ideas in both community and academic settings since the late 1990s. Before moving to Los Angeles in 2009, the largely self-taught artist spent over a decade living and working in Bloomington, Indiana. Their pieces and projects have been featured in publications and journals internationally, and in galleries, streets, backyards, and basements across the U.S. They are the author of A Gamble In This Dress, Free Flyer (Volume One), NOTE TO SEA, was a contributing essayist/editor of Cry List, and is a founding editor of the artbook/poetry imprint Rebel Hands Press.
+++ Check out our collaborative chapbook folie à deux (à la table bleue) and our new audio play a glimpse into verbal disappointment / arithmetics was hard at Rebel Hands Press!
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Support for The Post-Elevator Tour is provided by Poets&Writers and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant