Communicator Series #10
Communicator Series no. 10
Tuesday March 11th
Doors: 7pm
Event: 7:30pm
at 2220 Arts+Archives
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Representation? Visibility? Retrograde. So over it. Wild, esoteric, and emergent, Communicator Series resists codification. It revels in ambiguity, traversing the clandestine boundary between reality and perception. An invitation to dislocate and dismantle in the seduction of the margins. Communicator Series no. 10 presents new work 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.
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Communicator Series highlights queer and trans* performance artists whose practice is situated in-between. We're here for work that is switchy, vers, and language-curious. Work that can’t resist approaching the potential of failure, that the teases the edges of form as a poetic strategy of becoming otherwise, that fucks around and sometimes finds out, or at least challenges you to.
Curated by Emji Saint Spero | ig @homopathetic
Sound by jeremy kennedy | ig @table_blue
Videography by Nina Sarnelle | ig @ninasarnelle
Photography by Gentry McShane | ig @gentryxgx
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ARTISTS
Erica Dawn Lyle is a writer, curator, experimental musician, and cultural instigator who lives in New York and Florida. The former touring guitar player for Bikini Kill, as a solo performer, Lyle has released musical collaborations with Kim Gordon, The Raincoats, Bernadette Mayer, Kathleen Hanna, Kim Deal, Brontez Purnell, and many more. The author of several books and a contributor to Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, and other publications, her most recent book is The Knight of Cups (Beladonna Press, 2023).
ericadawnlyle.info | ig @kyaniteeye
Huntrezz Janos is as much herself as she is the information being relayed to you now through this sequence of symbols. Born to Hungarian architect Szabó Gyöngyi and metal icon Scoonie Gee in Los Angeles, CA, Huntrezz is a light-speed organism determined to reach a distant Antarctic destiny by way of a circuitous path of digital synthesis involving animated video/game art, 3D printed armor, Augmented Reality, sustainable architecture, and rhyme performance along with a laundry list of other, increasingly esoteric practices. Janos emerges from her various disguises to present afro-futurist media designed to delight, confound, and confront those of us entangled in this epoch. She has showcased her work across platforms such as Redcat, Honor Fraser Gallery, Tate Museum, The Modern, MoMA, Adult Swim, Postmaster’s Gallery, Vellum LA, Transfer Gallery, The Athens Biennale, LACMA, Photographer’s Gallery, Torrance Art Museum, and Onassis ONX. She holds a BFA in experimental animation from California Institute of the Arts (2018) and an MS from the University of Southern California (2024).
huntrezz.com | ig @huntrezz
D.Hill presents Trans-Melody performance involves a Black Transman narrative dealing with gender dysphoria, live sound using instruments and body movement within a free space. The performance is an original poetry/prose lyrical experience by D. Hill that invites all walkers of life.
The band consist of a six person performance group that plays experimental and band-like sound over original written literature. Our group consist of Erika Regalado (keyboardist), Ian Vergara (guitarist), Katie Sisk (vocalist & songwriter), Ronaline Itchon (vocalist), D. Hill (percussionist) and special guest artist Salvador de la Torre.
Communicator Series, with Poetic Research Bureau, will meet Trans-Melody to explore a time-based engagement. Everyone and every body is welcome to an inspirational experience between sound, quasi-storytelling and a Black-transman-thought.
dhillarts.com | ig @cool_moe_d
Salvador de la Torre | ig @delatorre_artstudio
Ian Vergara | ig @ianplayswhat
Erika Regalado | ig @erikajoreg
Katie Sisk | ig @kathodent
Ronaline Itchon | ig @sobeitmusicent