a collective unsilencing, a divine portent, a wail, an omen, a refusal to cower in the face of attempted erasure, a call to our ungovernable animality, a convening of artists using their voices and creative agency to resist intimidation and summon alternative worlds where transness is holy and bodily autonomy is sacrosanct, a portal built of rage and grief and glimpses of euphoria, an experiment in collaborative methods, kinship, and open process where shared labor becomes a form of care and the gallery becomes a staging ground for the battles we did not ask to fight

FULL PRESS RELEASE

featuring: Nicki Green, Ashton Phillips, Edgar Fabian Frias, Badly Licked Bear, Umi Hsu, Sadie Greyduck, Leslie Foster, Salvador De La Torre, Nina Sarnelle, Alystair Rogers, Wesleigh Gates, Beatrice Gosse, Tanner Pfeiffer and 8TPS, Jynx Prado, Elizabeth Frances Folk, Johanna Hedva, Pau Pescador, and Luce de Lire

Gallery hours noon-6pm, Thursday September 18-Sunday September 21

Schedule of Events

September 14th

2-3pm Procession of Divine Portent joule bricks from Automata
Arts (504 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90012) to Human Resources

September 18th

7-9pm Opening of Howl with live performance by Umi Hsu at
8pm and flash tattoos from Salvador de la Torre 7-9pm

September 19th

Mobile Sewing Station activation by Badly Licked Bear during gallery hours

8pm Los Angeles premiere of Breath Work by Nina Sarnelle

September 20

2-4pm Mobile Sewing Station activation and participatory patchmaking session with Elizabeth Frances Folk

5-6pm Open.Rehearsal with Tanner Pfeiffer and 8TPS choir

7- 9pm Live performances and readings, including choral performance by Tanner Pfeiffer and 8TPS choir; an original movement piece by Beatrice Gosse; a site-specific grappling hook performance by Sadie Greyduck; non-linear lecture performance on trans horror by Wesleigh Gates; Xina Xurner.

September 21

2 – 3pm artist panel on strategies for resisting silencing and
erasure and cultivating resiliency in an age of fascism with Salvador de la Torre and
Edgar Fabian Frias

3 – 4pm: tactical magic workshop by Edgar Fabian Frias

curated by Ashton S. Phillips