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.
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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
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 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.
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.
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.
