Mystic Elevator is an improvisation duo using live vocals (Abigail Whitman) and electronic loops (Jack Herscowitz). The two are LA-based and have performed at 2220 Arts and Archives, Beyond Baroque, EDME Festival, and Automata Theater: adapting their sound to respond to the environment in which they find themselves. Abigail explores new ways of sound production with […]
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Morgan Ray
Morgan Ray is a Los Angeles based photographer, videographer, designer, and director who criticizes and transforms the modern transgender experience. Speaking the language of contemporary advertising, Morgan leverages the problematics of representation within media and fashion through acutely satirical photographic and video work, using her own body as the subject. Unraveling the “transgender reveal” trope of […]
Mizz Conchi
Artist, Curator, Professor of Art and Art History; Mizz Conchi’s work reflects her lifetime exposure to cultural diversity and embodies her response to her bi-national upbringing. Reflecting her cultural hybridity and community, Mizz Conchi contemplates her upbringing on a Panama Air Force Base, the US and Madrid. Her work is infused by her training as […]
Miser
Miser is the ritual electronics unit founded by John Hudnall and Drew Girard, existing as improvisatory live performance, souinstallationnd art, and recorded output. In practice, Miser serves as a reality disassembly tool, using sound forms to create ritual space and perceptual portals, inspired by organic, technological, and imagined sources. Artist Location: Whittier, CA Social Media: […]
MicDrop
MicDrop is Mike and Rae. Together they explore ideas and technologies that capture personal stories and allow others to witness these stories, experience these stories, and contribute stories of their own in turn. PARTICIPATION When you hold a seashell to your ear, it is said that you can hear the ocean. What if the ocean […]
Memo Akten
Memo Akten is a media artist, musician and researcher from Istanbul, Turkey, working with computation as a medium and language to investigate the collisions between nature, science, technology, ethics, ritual, tradition and religion; thinking about the intersections of science and spirituality. Working with algorithms and custom software he combines critical and conceptual approaches with investigations into […]
Mélissa Lavabre
Mélissa Lavabre grew up in a tiny village in the South of France then landed in this strange place in 1996 at the age of 17, a sharp contrast to her homeland yet bearing similarities with its vegetation and climate. While the oak trees, sage, raccoons and coyotes of Los Angeles are comforting to her, the […]
Matt LeVeque
Matt LeVeque (he/they) is a percussionist, composer, and improviser based in Los Angeles. Their work, in all its forms, takes as its main goal the examination of queer relationality and radical intimacy. They are currently pursuing doctoral studies at CalArts with Tim Feeney and Michael Pisaro-Liu. Artist Location: North Hollywood, CA Social Media: PARTICIPATION chorus for one “chorus […]
Mathilda LaZelle
Mathilda LaZelle is the artist of her own universe – experienced by others through video work as well as installation and live performance. Mathilda has collaborated in various capacities with venues such as Mills College, The Legion of Honor Museum, The DeYoung Museum, MICA and EIU – as will as many alternative locations. She studied Studio […]
mirrored fatality
mirrored fatality is an underground interdependent Kapampangan and South Asian xenobinary experimental and healing noise queer punk farmer duo sharing their rituals + altars. mirrored fatality creates their “cocoon webs” combining performance art, music, spoken word, film, photography, painting, drawing, upcycled garments, anti-imperialist education, and healing justice practice spaces to mobilize a warrior community responding to […]