Performance Artists

Magali, A CultMagali, a Cult is a visual and performance artist currently based in New York City. She brings an amalgamation of genres together in her music, CGI artwork, fabric sculpture and writing. Magali creates a focus on the exploration and juxtaposition of the hopeful spirit, of desperation and the uncanny through the use of new technologies. Musically, she integrates electronic dance rhythms with traditional harmonic melodies. Having performed extensively throughout Europe and NYC, Magali has cultivated a distinct stage presence including projection art and seated choreography.

Joan La PerishJoan La Perish is an electroacoustic noise/ambient/free-improv project currently populated by Jonah Knapp-Wilson (sax, electronics, and vocals), Sam Kurzydlo (drums), and Jess Belardi (bass and field recordings). Joan was formed in March 2023 by Jonah, since then they have performed around Brooklyn at locations such as Purgatory, Rubulad, & Trans Pecos. In May 2023, they released their first single “Through Welcomed Ears”–which was commissioned by Kristina Hilliard for the multimedia dance piece “Corporeal” (May 2023).

A tentacular being at their wit's end, thrown against a wall and directed to walk on. When hounded into a corner by linear progress, one can either bash their head to break the wall, or reach out horizontally curiously omnidirectionally through all space afforded, feeling and growing intimately familiar with the subtleties of your new dwelling: the blockade. What once seemed a beast hunting for sport, chasing you to the corner–now is revealed to be an unruly train, whose tracks can be abandoned as it blindly charges on. Off the tracks there is all of history to move through–along and before the wall. While meandering the wall you learn that capacity sounds of distortion, mechanical failure, grinding, and stopping–devastating for the likes of a train.

Yvonne LebianYvonne LeBien is a trans poet and performer based in Queens, NY. She has performed at numerous diy venues across the country. She has published books with GenderFail including Christ’s Cunt and Queer and Mumbling: Fragments of Philosophical Faggotry.

The philosopher Wittgenstein died of prostate cancer; before his death he was taking medication that caused him to develop breasts. “Logic is the scaffolding of the world”: but the scaffolding transforms. “Death is not lived through”: but neither is life. A kind of mental butoh. The absurdity of the “deed” of performance, of theory. A podium, an alien. If the mathematics can be expressed in a dance or poem.

Bri Frei
MAKS - “Split_Face”Founded by Maxwell Abeles in 2011, MAKS (Musically Advanced Kinetic Systems) creates ornate multi-media systems for live performance. In 2020 Maxwell founded Guerrilla Theater. Recently Max took MAKS on tour in Indonesia with fellow artist and musician SMOMID. MAKS has performed at Last Frontier, Queens Museum, Grace Exhibition Space, Anarchist Art Festival, BRAC, Trans Pecos, Wild Embeddings, City Reliquary Museum, Cirebon Noise Fesitval (West Java), SIGGRAPH Asia (Japan), Harvestworks Digital Media Center (artist in resident 2015), Lesley University, Busan Art Fair (Korea), and prior with PixelMouth at Stone Circle Theater. Guerrilla Theater will be performing in Estonia as part of Non-Grata’s annual art festival this August.

“Split_Face” is a multimedia theater piece that combines a wide range of media and materials. Large cast latex faces, animatronics, figurative painting, custom circuitry and software, synchronous lighting - all used to create a singular experience for both the viewer and the performer alike. Lost gods are found - to be lost again, or maybe tended to for a spell? In other words: Cybernetic Performance Art, in other words: Space Age Polytheism, in other words: Energy beyond good and evil

Tench.nology -
“A Machine With Many Organs” - VJsometimes I make things.
sometimes I break things.
sometimes I enter things.

Installation Artists

Anna Pragman, Krithi Nalla, Tanvi Mishra - “Neo-TCH 1.3”Anna Pragman is a New York based digital designer. I love creating systems that reduce waste, miscommunication and disorganisation. I find it endlessly interesting to both engage directly with users as well as designing experiences for them. I find pride in using technology to be a creative problem solver.Krithi Nalla is a designer and researcher of interactions. Her passion lies in addressing the lack of harmony between our digital and physical lives. She sprinkles her design craft with interests in spatial compute, biology and socio-cultural signals, considering them case studies that illuminate the intricacies of human interactions. Tanvi Mishra is a creative technologist whose creative practice centres around building games, interactive installations, and weird web experiences primarily as educational escapades.

Neo-TCH 1.3 is a set of wearable electronic garments made of soft, gestural sensors, in a speculative world, to encourage curious interactions. It is an experimental and performative installation evoking new, reimagined forms of connection. The garments are constructed with sensors modelling simple, intimate gestures of stroking, pulling, and pushing. The sensors are made with conductive fibres, yarn, fabric, soft meshes and pliable wires. The process involved building custom circuit ‘boards’ and mapping them across the two bodies. While creating this alternate future, we reflected on the lack of personal physical connection during quarantine and the strangeness of reintegration into society afterwards.

Arden Schager - “Forget Me Not”A multidisciplinary artist, creative technologist, and MFADT candidate at Parsons, Arden explores the intersections of technology, biology, and culture. His current project, "Forget Me Not," is a sculpture and installation using video, light, sound, and space to question memory and dreams. Deconstructing the aesthetics of machine learning and quantum computing, projected videos from the “Moments in Time” dataset become altered across layers of rings, sent through prisms and mirrors before their refracted forms splay out on surfaces in the room. This interplay evokes both biological and digital memory, blurring reality and illusion, and inviting viewers to explore a dream.

J Dylan - “Something Other Than A Man/Orbiter”My photo-sculptures express being inside a body which feels different than it looks. In some pieces, a mangled inner life is reflected by torn photographs that fragment my outermost layer of skin. Assembling those fractured pieces of myself into new figures reminds me to treat the abject areas of my spirit with the utmost care. In other pieces, harsh imagery of urban infrastructure contrasts the tenderness of my flesh. Scaffoldings, barricades, and other infrastructural architecture become metaphors for the superficially-intact “pillars” supporting our society. Rearranging those pillars into complex, jarring forms implies the deep flaws beneath their surface.

Tina Tarighian - “A Rose for @Emily7213_lol”A Rose for @Emily7213_lol is an immersive viewing experience that dynamically switches between live streams worldwide while physically encapsulating the user in sculpture. This portal seamlessly transitions between diverse vistas—remote sea cameras, serene animal sanctuaries, and human narratives—highlighting both the interconnectedness of our existence and the pervasive nature of modern surveillance. A captivating exploration of perpetual discovery and ephemeral moments, it invites viewers into an ever-evolving experience, where they become both observers and the observed. Tina Tarighian is a computer artist whose work focuses on digital intimacy. You can see more of her work at www.tina.zone.

Yuelin Li - “I Know A Place”"I Know a Place," explores the intricate parallels between object interactions and human connections, emphasizing the influence of external factors like time and space. Featuring an automaton and a white balloon tethered together, this installation uses recycled metals and objects’ movement to evoke deep emotional responses. The dynamic interplay between the objects symbolizes the fragility and resilience in relationships, inviting viewers to reflect on the complexities and external influences shaping their own connections. The artist focuses on creating emotionally engaging automata that foster silent dialogues and heightened perceptions.

Mattías Piña - “Greater Than Two”Exploring the persistence of human relationships over long distance and time, Greater Than Two is an interactive art piece that employs indoor localization to generate real time visuals. Focusing on the idea of unbreakable connections, this piece features two custom devices that are constantly reacting to each other’s position, displaying a connection that will be present regardless of any obstacles or distance between the two.

Rui Liao - “temperature check, how are we feeling today?“I am Rui (Sirui Liao), a visual designer based in New York. Most of my work takes on a variety of mediums ranging from pixel arrangement to tangible objects. Besides that, I bake cakes to gift friends.

“temperature check, how are we feeling today” is a short fiction of bodily transformation through mundane experiences, translated into a book, a knitted web and a multiple-pop up windows browser experience.

Tempest Creation - 444Tempest Creation is a multimedia artist and filmmaker based out of Queens, New York. Her work explores violence, intimacy and space through a transfemme of color lens. She has showcased at The Kitchen, TRANSlations Film Festival and various underground screeners across New York City.

444 is BAD fengshui! I hate to see that you, you’ve already missed it. We’ve lived here for 12 years and you didn’t even notice the wall studs rotting. You have bad manners at this dinner table. I’ve never fought anyone but I sure would like to fight you. I’ve never stabbed anyone but I always think about stabbing you, in the middle of the night. In broad daylight, why don’t you fist-rape me? In front of the cops -I bet they would just see two hunks of meat filled with Testosterone, trying to get each other off. Where is your Kumar when you need him the most? I like the way my spit flies onto your $70 man-shirt. Yes, this is all just a taunt, I’m trying to goad you. Miss Monkey can’t help but be a trickster. You are to me what I am to you: a trick. When the Yellow Lion Dancer scared away all the evil spirits in the Pink Restaurant why did you stay?

Jan.17 7PM 182 Avenue C New York

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Jan.17 7PM
182 Avenue C New York