PARTICIPATION Mysteries of Catalina Island A sonic explication of things strange and wonderful in that lump of land looming in front of Angel’s Gate, including: the story of the giant humanoids unearthed by bizarre archivist Ralph Glidden; the haunted Avalon grocery store that has terrorized clerks for decades; the curious disappearance of socialite Eileen Jeffers; […]
PARTICIPATION Zzyzxzyzz is a collaborative listening study conducted by Aaron Bartell and Ian Wellman, currently focused on the electromagnetic sounds of everyday objects. The project explores an often unheard sonic landscape in the post-industrial world. Aaron Bartell, AKA AnalScubaHive, is a sound artist and co-founder of Triptronics Research, a biweekly experimental electronics series in Los […]
Zaq Kenefick is an artist usually located around Los Angeles. His artistic output is often centered around the tension between virtuosity and amateurism. He has been thinking about the things that are ignored, like ballet bars in a dance studio, the space between people making a phone call, or the body of a person playing piano […]
Yuri Bruscky (Recife/PE, 1985) is a sound artist and researcher. Develops artistic practices exploring imbrications between noise, language, sonic environments, and everyday life. Since 2010, through his experimental music label Estranhas Ocupações, he’s been releasing records, books, and organizing performances. Co-creator of the sonic arts festival Rumor and the seminar and residency program (Entre) Lugares Sonoros. […]
As an artist living in an authoritarian political environment, I see my work both as a tool to explore the ways in which political and cultural oppression influences the human mind, and as a possible way to find opportunities for resistance. Artist Location: Russian Federation Social Media: PARTICIPATION The Sound Of the Purge .Proposed work […]
Yozmit is a Two-Spirit singer and interdisciplinary performance artist. Through her ritualistic performance art, Yozmit combines theater, dance, pop culture, fashion, gender identity, mythology, and shamanism onto a single canvas. She sees her art as a form of research that helps define the unknown mysteries of her universe. Yozmit is currently based in Los Angeles and […]
Young Tseng makes work with mime, movement, and installation. His work comes out of the experience of shifting perspectives that can occur when, in the course of performance and preparing for performance, one is paying close attention — listening — to space, time, movement, stillness, and human and non-human presences. In everything he makes, Young Tseng […]
Yann Novak is an artist, composer, and curator based in Los Angeles. His work is guided by his interests in perception, context, movement, and the felt presence of direct experience. Through the use of sound and light, Novak explores how these intangible materials can act as catalysts to focus our awareness on our present location […]
Yadira Dockstader (b.1983) is a Mexican-American multidisciplinary artist from Southern California. She received her B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from the University of California Riverside. Dockstader works in moving image, sculpture, sound, performance, installation and hybrid modes. Dockstader seeks to expose the ableism and socioeconomic circumstances that inhibit the lives of those living […]
Xiouping aka (TNT) Taiwanese & Texan. An American new genres photographer, video, installation, sound and performance artist.Traverses hybridity examining identity politics through story telling a reconstruction of her experience spanning time. Her performances investigate myth making/story telling through a queer bi-racial lense of indigenous shamanic Taiwanese, and Cherokee-European ancestry, taking her agency and narrative within identity, […]