Communicator Series #13
Communicator Series no. 13
Tuesday July 8th
Doors: 7:30pm
Event: 8pm
at 2220 Arts+Archives
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Communicator Series no.13 abandons the acceptable for the molten consequence of lush illegibility. Reanimate your wreckage with the debut of Los Angeles’ recent poetic arrival imogen smith, alongside platinum-cured performances by K Bradford and Candle Christensen. Tuesday July 8th, 7:30pm at Poetic Research Bureau.
As a special also in honor of National Freezer Pop Day, we’re treating you to a body-inclusive fantasy sex toy pop-up by Slurp Toys, hand poured by Revé.
Consider this your cruel summer soft launch.
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Communicator Series is a platform for queer and trans* artists whose practice is situated in-between, troubling the boundaries between poetry, archive, performance, activism, and collective intimacies. We're here for work that is switchy, vers, and language-curious, that teases the edges of form as a poetic strategy of becoming otherwise. Attempts, failure, and works-in-progress encouraged.
Curated by Emji Saint Spero | ig @homopathetic
Presented in collaboration with Poetic Research Bureau at 2220 Arts + Archives
Sound by jeremy kennedy | ig @table_blue
Video by Gentry McShane | ig @gentryxgx
Photo by Vaughan Larsen | ig @the.vaughan.show
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ARTISTS
imogen smith is a poet & transexual. She is the author of STEMMY THINGS & the forthcoming RAW & ZERO, both from Nightboat Books. Her writings have appeared in this journal & that, & she is the recipient of fellowships from The Poetry Project & NYFA. imogen recently moved to LA, loves true punks, hates cops of all denominations, & believes in a free Palestine.
nightboat.org/bio/imogen-xtian-smith
ig @imogen.xtian
Candle Christensen is a transcription error posing as PhD student. Their dissertation work proposes a theory of diagonal trans poetics, one which looks askance at questions of representation and sidesteps confession. They teach courses on creative writing and communal living at UCLA and organize ice dyeing workshops in East Hollywood. They are curious about the mutual illegibility that occurs between trans embodied experience and medical terminology, as well as the kinds of accidental prophecy that misinterpretations can generate.
ig @trophy.boywife
K Bradford (they/them) is an interdisciplinary performer, writer, director, and cultural innovator whose art + social practice activates radical intersectional collectivity and hybrid forms of co-production. K. has performed in and curated gender theater shows, public installations, and assemblage performance works across the U.S. and also toured internationally as a drag king for ten years. They have been awarded scholarships and residencies for their work, including the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Theatrical Jazz Institute, and Fulbright Scholars Program. Their writing has been published in anthologies and journals such as the LA Review of Books, Gulf Coast, Soap Ear, Viralnet.net, & more. In February, K. launched the Qosmos post-drag spectacle and they are at work on a new full length one-person performance work, Wild Glitch.
ig @misterroadshow
Photo credit: Owen Scarlett | ig @owenscarlett
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ig @slurptoys