Performance Artists
AmygdalaExcerpt from A Body of Light / A Body of TonguesAmygdala is a Brooklyn based drag apparition and multidisciplinary artist who merges video, sound design, live performance, and fiber art into audiovisual installations. She’s presented work at Grace Exhibition Space, Parasol Projects, Millennium Film Workshop, House of Yes, and La Mama Experimental Theater Club. The Broodmother of Pleasure Dome, a semi monthly variety show that explores pleasure, utopia, and queer futurity (returning February 20th!)
Estado Flotante
Estado Flotante is an artist based in Brooklyn whose practice ranges from dance/movement to music/sound, and video/visual composition consolidated through his pop music and live performance. Originally from Santiago de Chile where he became dancer, teaching artist and maker, he moves to New York City in 2012 where he has performed and collaborated with various Dance and performance artists like Antonio Ramos, Miguel Gutierrez, Daria Fain, Ishmael Houston Jones, John Kelly, Jacolby Satterwhite among others. Currently he has been releasing his first singles online, and producing his first EP to be released on all streaming platforms while cultivating his performance practice for more shows to come.
Leaveascar + UFO TOFU
Leaveascar is the moniker of Rachel Navarro, a Bronx-born actress/musician. She’s been praised for her lyricism by legendary Producer Timbaland and continues to work on her craft. Her latest collaboration with UFO TOFU has given her the opportunity to manipulate her voice into new shapes. Djs from Germany to Paris have turned these tracks into their own masterpieces. The joy of making art is seeing how others fit it into their own world.
UFO TOFU plays with the vocals of his artists like a potter does with clay. Molding what was once an enticing track into a completely reimagined sonic experience. You’ll find TOFU’s music aiding in the release of inhibitions and feelings you can’t quite put into words. Some have described his music as dark, but he believes it’s just a puzzle waiting to be solved.
Alex Romania
Fame Hole
ALEX ROMANIA makes work at the crux of expansive task and deteriorating form, through multidisciplinary opera’s, performance and films. Romania is a current Franklin Furnace Fund recipient, 2024 Djerassi resident artist, 2022 and 2025 MacDowell fellow, 2023 Center for Performance Research AIR, and 2018-2020 Movement Research AIR. Some of Romania’s current projects include co-directing the film ‘RECKONING’ with Stacy Lynn Smith, the multidisciplinary opera ‘Face Eaters’, co-directorship of the experimental documentary ‘Patch the Sky with Five Colored Stones’ conceived by choreographer Daria Faïn, a collaborative short entitled ‘Mira, Mira, Mira!’ with Daniela Fabrizi and the Re Hecho community in the LES.
Innana Rose
Feast
Three course meal, open to the public.
Gluten free; contains dairy, tree nuts, and a bird-based broth.
Innana Rose is a support structure, body decorator, ordained minister, and mover. Their personal practice consists largely of ritual care, body work, florals, and hosting elaborate dinners. They find immense divinity in the senses-feeding fucking washing praying.
The Band
Claire, Little Layla, Keb, Poli, Gretel, and Henry
special thanks to K & her Saturn and Layla Acito
Installation Artists
J - “Not My Teeth”I make photos with obscured subjects in response to a sense of dissonance that pervades my life. I work hard to present as a healthy, attractive, and confident person, but I walk through every day carrying intense familial trauma and rampant inner conflict about my sexuality. I have always had a different relationship with my anatomy than most males, and after the death of my older sister when I was 17, any sense of linearity or normalcy was eliminated. My life has felt disjointed ever since. This implores me to create imagery from moments where reality is distorted, and in Not My Teeth, complicating my mouth to this unrecognizable effect conveys the sensitivity and self-scrutiny I experience. Manipulating these photos into a mysterious, jarring sculpture captures the discrepancy between my outer appearance and my mangled inner life, while evoking the scary, captivating, and beautiful felt sensation of it.Christina Cappelli - “The Void”
The Void is an interactive exploration of how people seek validation through digital spaces, curating idealized versions of themselves. Using webcam manipulation, it exposes the emptiness behind these self-presentations and reveals how we feed data into an impersonal system. Labels like “Soul Decay” and “Hollow Salvation” critique consumerism’s parasitic nature, suggesting that while we surrender our souls, we remain trapped in a self-perpetuating cycle that we eagerly return to. The piece highlights the soul-sucking pursuit of validation and the hollow rituals of digital consumption in the search for fulfillment. The interactive element underscores the audience’s role in perpetuating this cycle, emphasizing the absurdity and emptiness at its core.
Gabriel Lee - “Sweet Nothing”
Gabriel Lee’s work explores language, embodiment, and queer & transgender relationality. They house electronics in organic, uncanny avatars to make them come alive, processing and transmitting deeply intimate, human subjects through machines. These forms express computational repetition, poetry, and audio to evoke rituals and examine language as an act of creation. Their recent artworks are in interactive mixed-media sculpture, ceramics, and text with image.Sweet Nothing is a playful piece that invites the interactor down a rabbit hole about holes: holes as our earliest form, as lack with presence, as increasing surface area for encounter and discovery, as ontological parasites.
Shangari Mwashighadi - “Consume Me”
Shangari is a Kenyan-American research based anti-disciplinary artist. Their practice currently is concerned with analyzing how value is assigned to certain aspirational experiences, objects, and resources. Particularly with how the sense of sight is manipulated in the process of making something perceived as valuable or valueless. Seeking to subvert conventional notions of value as a way to challenge the viewer & themselves. They investigate how time shifts value and how its passing can magnify or diminish it.
Matthew Ross - “Running in Circles” Running in Circles is a Mixed Media Installation exploring the relationship between agency, artificial intelligence and coping mechanisms. We seek to escape the desperation that Techno Optimism has given us and attempt to reclaim the more basic joys of creation.
Emily Innes - “Blood Machine #3” Fluid system created using a micro-controlled peristaltic pump, releases spurts of liquid at the average human heart rate. Examines the interconnected roles of voyeur and subject, as sculpture bleeds out in front of the audience—positioning them as both passive spectators and implicated participants. The machine, designed to function, deteriorate, and ultimately “bleed,” mirrors the extractive nature of digital and systemic exploitation—where bodies, both human and artificial, are pushed to their limits for the sake of entertainment, engagement, and gratification.
Emily Innes’ work focuses on the detrimental impact of technology on social relationships, exploring how it has reshaped the way individuals exist both to others and themselves. Her practice investigates how digital systems construct an alternative space for living—one mediated through screens, algorithms, and artificial interactions. By examining the interconnected roles of observer and subject within an increasingly digitized culture, she highlights how spectatorship is never truly passive. Instead, the viewer becomes complicit in cycles of exploitation, reinforcing systems of control, consumption, and dehumanization.
Annika Santhanam - “DO NOT EAT”
“DO NOT EAT” is an interactive sculpture and performance piece that aims to draw attention to the self destructive nature of overconsumption. Food is often used for sustenance, enjoyment, ritual, but it can manifest as guilt or shame. The same way we consume things they can consume us. Just as we use the internet to broaden our minds, at the same time it can shrink us. “DO NOT EAT” is an industrial mirror of this concept, a representation of a fatal “too much”, of being consumed. Look at it for too long and it will wither and die.
Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Plexiglass, Water
Annika Santhanam is a 22 year old creative technologist and sound designer with a current focus on tactical media and critical engineering. She likes to make things that sound good, look good, and do good. Tentropy - “Behold”
“Behold” presents a series of wall-mounted sculptural hands offering replicas of everyday consumer objects. Through capacitive touch, viewers activate projection-mapped videos above each hand, revealing layered histories of manufacturing, labor conditions, and environmental impact. The longer a viewer maintains contact, the deeper these narratives unfold. By transforming passive consumption into an act of witnessing, the installation challenges our devotion to material culture and our willingness to confront its true context. The hands, positioned between retaildisplay and ritual offering, create moments where touch becomes a commitment to understanding, and familiar objects become vessels of hidden stories awaiting revelation.Schuyler DeVos & Zeke Maben - “MAMMON.exe” MAMMON.exe is an interactive installation exploring consumption habits through the lens of religious iconography. Participants can interact with three “gods of consumption” represented by digital avatars through their phone, the religious instrument of consumption. In this shrine, supplicants can pray to the gods and seek boons from them, with the chance of having their wish granted. Hafoff, god of discounts and flash sales, rewards those who hunt for deals, while Gratis, the god of free samples, encourages supplicants to be miserly. Lastly, Luxior, goddess of luxury items, helps those who help themselves with big purchases and name brands.Schuyler deVos is a Manhattan-based creative technologist and web developer specializing in digital worldbuilding. Zeke Maben is a Jersey City-based writer and project manager.
Environmental Construction Artists
A. KazalDirector of Environmental Construction
Lead Carpenter
Lead Rigger
Lead “The Feed” Design and Installation
Lead “The Mouth of the Castle” Installation
Textile Support
Lighting Support
Tench C.Lead Projection Designer
Lead Lighting Designer
Lead Baddie
Lead “Enter Here”
Design and Installation
“it’s gone.” Design and Fabrication
Rigging Support
Carpentry Support
Textile SupportTao Liu Lead Painter
Lead Printer
Lead “Enter Here” Design and Installation
Window Design
“The Lady” Design and Projection
Receipt Design
Flaire “The Cathedral” Creative Design
Lead Textiles
Lead Painter
Carpentry Support
Stage Adornment
Tabi CassLead “The Intestine” Installation
Textile Support
Rigging Support
Leia L Lead “The Intestine” Installation
Lead “it’s gone.” Installation
Laser Cutting
Carpentry Support
Shelby Tse Textile Support
Painting Support
“The Feed” Adornment
“The Mouth of the Castle” Adornment
Recipient of the “Best Husband Ever” Award