east village caravanserai (caravanserai) curates and presents theatre-based performances fostering dialogue and community. caravanserai produces chamber theatre and other performances in accessible community spaces in East Village/Downtown Long Beach. These events bring together performing artists and audiences through shows that are relevant to Long Beach’s communities, featuring diverse artists, audiences and venues. Artist Location: Long Beach, […]

PARTICIPATION Starting in 2010, Ear Meal Webcast’s goal was to document the Los Angeles experimental music and sound arts community. In addition to performances and photo documentation of the artists who visited to the studio, oral histories were also compiled. At present, an archive is being assembled for donation to a suitable institution. All past […]

Dylan Ricards is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in the fields of sculpture and sound who is endlessly fascinated with the materiality of the post-natural world, peering between moral ecological binaries where contamination occurs and the possibilities of magic in art are revealed. Artist Location: Long Beach, CA Social Media: PARTICIPATION Chai Circle is a […]

DON’Touch is a queerdo (code/context/comfort) and a thing (it/it/its) that guerilla about leaving traces behind. Artist Location: Long Beach, CA PARTICIPATION NOiSE’BLEED BACE’fleed Ruktosound out and see what bounces back…

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 the further […]

Combining their efforts, Dillon and Skyles produce hybrid media forms coming out of their various professional practices, ranging from (Dillon) fine art, filmmaking, and commercial advertising, to (Skyles) sound engineering, record producing, and composing.  Social Media: PARTICIPATION Overlay, Overtime This work was made during lockdown in our living room. Over the past years Dillon had collected video […]

Dillon is not Dylan, Alina is not Alinugh. But………… . . their works ARE cooperative (by design) and they like to work together (do they???)! Sound and vision. Artist Location: Los Angeles, CA Dillon’s Social Media: Alina’s Social Media: PARTICIPATION Something TheaterMultiple miniature dioramas with sound-driven situations and a strong relationship between sound, space, and […]

Dillon Bastan is a Los Angeles based sound artist, developer, music producer, and performer. He creates experiences with sound as art, music, or tools. Social Media: PARTICIPATION Dillon Bastan’s artworks use audio reactive servo motors that “dance” to music, and attached to them are media like charcoal, pastel, pens, etc. They in turn dance around […]

Diego is a designer born in Atlanta, GA and raised in Long Beach, CA. Artist Location: Long Beach, CA PARTICIPATION inviting toothbrush. Exploring privacy through the invitation of the ubiquitously private toothbrush to a quasi-public space via its sound ecology. tooth brushing has finagled its way into western necessity, in turn bringing unique unexplored sounds to a […]

Deb Diehl is a Los Angeles-based artist and educator. Exploring the intersection of physical and psychological spaces, Diehl creates video installations, films, and photography about that which is revealed beneath the surface of socially constructed and naturally occurring phenomena. Diehl has exhibited in venues such as the Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles; Ars Electronica […]