Neyva

Hailing from the planet Saturn, Neyva is a multidisciplinary alien artist from outer space here to save the human race. Their music is vulnerable, futuristic, eclectic, experimental, and otherworldly, alongside their engaging stage presence. In this lifetime, they’re self taught as well as in music programs since middle school. They were in and out of […]

Neyva

PARTICIPATION Neyva is a multidisciplinary artist who embraces futurism, alien ancestry, alienation, vulnerability, cacophony, abrasion, grief, & their emotions through the celestial musical universe they encapsulate through their ethereal vocals, immersive stage presence, & eclectic music. Through the dichotomy of these elements, they strive to create a universe for those who resonate with these experiences, […]

Pure Filth Society

Ashton S. Phillips (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, California, working directly with the earth, water, pollution, and more-than-human agents of (dis)repair as primary materials and collaborators. He is interested in the transness of material, the plasticity of bodies (human and nonhuman), and the promise of queer/trans ecological praxis, including interspecies collaboration, […]

Pure Filth Society

PARTICIPATION Wishing Well – A Feast Cycle of Fluid (de)Compositions Pure Filth Society members Ashton S. Phillips and Sadie Greyduck will perform a nonlinear, fluid ecosystem of sonic and material composition and decomposition, contamination and regeneration. Wishing Well will be organized around a well or wells of (plastic) fluids that will be constructed to both […]

Heidi Ross

Heidi Ross is a chef and multidisciplinary artist who uses food as visceral communication through communion—exploring sentience and interspecies connection through sound, touch, taste, and new media. Her conceptual, somatic, and artistic approach to cooking comes through in immersive performances that connect people around a shared experience. Her work centers curiosity and patience, delight in nature […]

Heidi Ross

PARTICIPATION I’m a professional chef and sound artist who makes food, sounds, and movement in performance. My work explores embodiment and nourishment in social collaboration and engagement, drawing poetic attention to form, sound, and materials. My setup includes a 2.5 ft x 4 ft mushroom shaped sound table which I prepare food on and amplify […]

Bea Lamar

Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Bea Lamar‘s candlelit sketching sessions with her father ignited a lifelong exploration of art’s mystical dimensions.Now rooted in Pasadena on the ancestral land of the Hahamog’na Tongva people, her practice blends environmentalism, ancestral wisdom, and quantum interconnectedness.Drawing from Levantine heritage—ancient divination, celestial rhythms, and herbal lore—she creates immersive installations merging energy […]

Bea Lamar

PARTICIPATION “headless/bodyless” delves into the resonant sounds of a traditional coin belt, exploring its ancestral significance and hypnotic vibrations. Historically, belly dancers used coin belts to highlight movements and tell stories through energy work and percussion. In postcolonial Western societies, these dancers were often objectified, reduced to exoticized torsos, and stripped of their individuality.This installation […]

divinebrick

PARTICIPATION Performance: Brown, Indigenous of the Americas.My practice provides me with a place where I can explore something that I have come to see as ancient. I have used the genre of performance art to explore this practice. The avant-garde with it’s open ended definition allows what ever is needed to explore. For NOMAD III […]

soundShoppe

soundShoppe

PARTICIPATION Performance: soundShoppe Ensemble forms a sound orchestra, consisting of several musicians. Instruments will include circuit bent/homemade devices, accordions, bowed instruments, modular synthesizers, acoustic objects that make sounds (such as long reeds whipped into the air), gongs, percussion objects, voice, drones, guitars, whistles and other indescribable objects. Sound will range from quiet to loud, from […]