Emmanuel Camacho Larios, is a first-generation, borderless queer interdisciplinary Artist residing in the Inland Empire. Emmanuel’s art serves as a biographical interference and reclamation of his and his communities’ intersecting and evolving identities. Rituals, shifting weights, decay, and mourning are underlying threads in their practice. His current exploration has been blurring the lines between fictional […]
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 […]
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 […]
PARTICIPATION An extraterrestrial being collides with the political ramifications of immigration in the occupied Turtle Island. The only way to contact home, dimensions away is through shared energy sound calls. .anónimx. once again summons the .mother. realm through ritualistic and synthetic bell manipulations. Emmanuel Camacho Larios, is a first-generation, borderless queer interdisciplinary Artist residing in […]
PARTICIPATION Performance divinebrick (josie j) is a self research for the sacred primordial being. divinebrick name is a placeholder for an idea that the self is a divine phenomenon holding and care taking the grander whole. Decolonizing the self is the remembering of the soil the self is made of. The name “josie j” is […]
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 […]
PARTICIPATION Performance. Harold Greene, the noted furniture maker, is also a multi-instrumentalist. The long time San Pedro resident plays original contemporary jazz on the Chapman Stick, a ten-stringed instrument that is played by tapping on the fret board. He accompanies himself, with the aid of a loop pedal, on the cajon (box drum), bass and […]
From Burbank, craft Hollywood, The Artist Monte Thrasher does the physical labor of movie making, building costumes, painting sets, running cables. He collects skills instead of possessions, sketching, sculpting and building, though he’s developing into a storyteller. He wrote for the now-legendary 90s sound sculpture zine Experimental Musical Instrument (Tom Waits’ favorite magazine) about his […]
PARTICIPATION Performance: A sound sculpture performance, played very vigorously as a kind of mad sport, or a spoof of sport, called Creature/Craft. The original idea was a deliberately silly idea, my Quidditch, so to speak, but it turned out to be doable, and should be very crazy-lively, fun and spontaneous to watch, full of surprises. […]
PARTICIPATION Performance For about 40 years, Susan Rawcliffe researched, made and played clay musical instruments; she studied the marvelous archaic ceremonial flutes from PreHispanic meso-American cultures: West Mexico, Olmec, Mayan & Aztec. These studies informed & inspired her love of timbre, resulting in a great range of flutes, pipes, ocarinas, whistles, trumpets, didjeridus and sound […]