TORIA KAHNI’s work explores an Asian ancient-future: a shifting ecology of bodies through poetry, welded sculpture, wearable forms, ceramics and movement, they open thresholds where interior states—pain, rupture, transformation—become sonic and corporeal material. Shaped by backgrounds in biotechnology and psychology and living with chronic autoimmune illness, they approach the body as unstable and relational. Performance […]
Stephen Linsley is a fine artist working in photography, video installation and music. He was a founding member of the JIm Carroll Band. He has produced numerous records. He is currently working on a Book of Portraits of Older Punk Rock Musicians. Artist Location: California Social Media: PARTICIPATION SlowmOcean Full building projection of slo motion […]
Andrew McGregor is a bagpiper, inventor, and multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges ancient traditions and cutting-edge innovation. He was previously named one of “LA’s 40 Most Interesting People” by LA Weekly and has performed on a Grammy-nominated album. Artist Location: Santa Monica, CA Social Media: PARTICIPATION On-site event June 6th Soundscape Typewriter I have an […]
Aaron West is a composer and sound theorist exploring the thresholds between signal, noise, and time. His practice utilizes analog tools—reel-to-reel tape, cassettes, and modular synthesis—to create immersive landscapes where clarity dissolves into static. By blending the organic resonance of piano and violin with raw electricity, West constructs evolving sonic environments rooted in texture. With […]
M A Harms is a Los Angeles based composer, instrument builder, and performer who explores the intersections between grief, gender, and sex through a combination of text and sound. Performance art is a major component of their work, as they believe that sound and visual aesthetics are equally significant within their art. M navigates literal stories […]
Artist Location: San Diego, CA Social Media: PARTICIPATION QUADRA is a conceptual art piece by multi disciplinary artist and San Diego native Jason Soares QUADRAS FRONTERAsconfigures the QUADRA for the first phase of a multi location quadraphonic autonomous zone that seeks to connect multiple geographic locations together The QUADRA creates a sonic space that could […]
Laurie Steelink identifies as Akimel O’otham, and is a member of the Gila River Indian Community. She is a multidisciplinary artist and cultural practitioner who has explored connections to her Native American roots over the last decade through installations and assemblages. Born and raised in Arizona, Steelink received a BFA from the San Francisco Art […]
Nature artist, animator, storyteller of Hawaiian endangered species. Laurie’s work explores themes of extinction, diversity and spirituality. She has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Brazil and screened at DOCNYC, BAM cinemaFest, PS1 MoMA. Her first feature, A PARADISE LOST, is supported by Firelight Media, Sundance Institute, PIC & Jackson Wild. PARTICIPATION Charon Lives In […]
LYNK Collective is a Southern California-based group of printmakers whose focus is on making collaborative works on paper, with forays into sculpture and installation. Since 2017, the group has mounted large-scale exhibitions at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in downtown Santa Ana, Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro and the Irvine Fine […]
Kim Kei (b.1981, Corpus Christi, TX) is a multi-disciplinary Los Angeles based artist whose practice spans sculpture, printmaking, painting, and photography to evoke sensations of vulnerability, invasiveness and tenderness towards the body. Kei attended the University of Arizona and went on to receive her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003. Her work […]