Communicator Series no. 13 abandons the acceptable for the molten consequence of lush illegibility. Reanimate your wreckage with platinum-cured performances by imogen smith, K Bradford and Candle Christensen, and a body-inclusive fantasy sex toy pop-up by Slurp Toys, hand poured by Revé. Curated by Emji Saint Spero.

Consider this your cruel summer soft launch.

OUT NOW! 𝓐𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓪, 𝓪𝓷𝓭?, a new split single featuring Ariana "A.I." Grande remixes by dj again + clicks™. This B2B collider will shred your agit-fluff expectations in a swirl of synthetic heartbreak, glittery glitches, and AI emotions gone rogue…as Grande struggles to complete the captcha with a sneak aside from stunt-sister catpowerman5000.  

Today is Bandcamp Friday so every dollar goes straight to the artists.
Stream it. Buy it. Own it.💥

Join us at LAST PROJECTS on Friday June 20th for the Opening of EDEN, a three-day-long experimental art happening, exhibition, and benefit for the TransLatin@ Coalition! Featuring performances by Emji Saint Spero, Oscar Corona, Emily Lucid and Wesleigh Gates, Edua Mercedes, and Sammie Veeler.

Communicator Series presents an evening of autotextual inquiry, sonic assemblage, and immersive exchange to celebrate the release of Writing on Raving. This event features hybrid performances by McKenzie Wark, Zoey Greenwald, Jasmine Infiniti, and Kumi James (aka BAE BAE), in concert with the LA debut of Rave New World’s mini-documentary on Singapore's queer cyberpunk rave Bussy Temple, hosted by Michelle Lhooq. Curated by Emji Saint Spero.

Communicator Series no. 11 invites you to unravel in the aftermath, destabilizing lineages of personal and collective loss through irreverent temporalities, wry vulnerability, and gestural discord. Presenting transdisciplinary performances by Sasha Forests, Miguel Gutierrez, and Sebastian Hernandez. Curated by Emji Saint Spero.

This Sunday, I’m performing work from Five Year Plan for NNOOOO #3 at Cafe 2001. NNOOO is a hypersensory dopamine hit of simultaneous poetic happenings, experimental performances, sound art, movement, etc. Curated by Joseph Mosconi, David Horvitz, and Zara Schuster.

Communicator Series no. 10 offers performances by Erica Dawn Lyle, Huntrezz Janos, and D. Hill, in collaboration with Salvador de la Torre and a sound ensemble featuring Erika Regalado, Ian Vergara, Katie Sisk, and Ronaline Itchon. Curated by Emji Saint Spero.

Communicator Series is giving parasocial embodiment. This event invites manuel arturo abreu, Creighton Baxter, and Selby Sohn to create performances-by-proxy, entangled gestures to be enacted by Los Angeles-based artists…and you. Tuesday February 11th, 7:30pm at Poetic Research Bureau. Curated by Emji Saint Spero.

Dissonant presence. Strategic noncoherence. Communicator Series no. 8 offers witness-resistant poetic happenings for raw liberatory combustion. Join us Tuesday December 10th, 7pm at Poetic Research Bureau for performances by Punitive Worm, Cedric Tai, and San Francisco-based artist Mason J. You’re welcome.

Modular. Crossfaded. Suspended between lavender surveillance and transcendent witness, Communicator Series no. 7 presents new work by Anna Luisa Petrisko, Ryat Yezbick w/ Linda Franke, and Bay Area artist J Rivera Pansa. Wednesday November 13th, 7:30pm at Poetic Research Bureau. 

Free / RSVP

Flickering intimacies. Fugitive strategies. Alternative forms of care. Join us for i wouldn’t do that on Sun November 10, 7pm at Melrose Botanical Garden.

Communicator Series no. 6 features performances by Tyler Holmes and Page Person, in collaboration with Die Anna, as well as a special area installation displaying photography by Maria Ramirez-Adams alongside ephemeral traces from Communicator Series: Season One. Reception/salon woven throughout the evening. Curated by Emji Saint Spero.

Join us in honoring the anniversary of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot at Trans* Temporal Resistances on August 24th, 5-7pm at CounterPulse. This performance series invites local artists J Rivera Pansa and Davia Spain to engage Queer Time as an embodied strategy of resistance, deconstructing trans* archives and architectures in conversation with TurkxTaylor Initiative’s exhibition, Transition Times II: Reconfiguring Structures of Power. 

Co-curated by Emji Saint Spero and Leila Weefur

Trans Temporal Resistances invite writers and artists to deconstruct trans archives and architectures through textual and movement-based approaches. Situated within a district in which desire has historically been boundaried and confined, these performances engage Queer Time as an embodied strategy of resistance. Co-curated by Emji Saint Spero and Leila Weefur.

Pre-medicated. Irreverent. Cutty and sprung. Communicator Series no. 4 activates with calculated precision, in spite and solidarity. Tuesday April 16th, 7pm, at Poetic Research Bureau. Performances by jeremy kennedy and Bay Area artist Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta negotiate incoherence and insurrectionary strategies for dismembering linearity...i.e. if it can exist it must exist. Devotedly yours.

para by para is an immersive (hyper)active listening party featuring a durational improvised performance by Slow Rose and a disjunctive two-channel composition by jeremy +/- kennedy (d.j. again) with projection by John Dawson and Alee Peoples. Curated by Emji Saint Spero.

Communicator Series returns to Poetic Research Bureau on Tuesday February 13th for an evening of research performance and hybrid disidentifcations by Wye Coday and Emily Lucid, and the premiere of Neverland Meltdown, a new video by Patty Gone.

Join us at Cantor Arts Center for an evening of performance, discussion, music, and readings to celebrate the release of the book Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects.

Join us Tuesday January 9th at Poetic Research Bureau for the debut of Communicator Series, featuring performances by Andrea Abi-Karam, Violet Spurlock, and Sammie Veeler to celebrate the launch of Spurlock’s first book In Lieu of Solutions, recipient of Futurepoem’s Other Futures Award.

Alsea Diana Is Depicting Violence Against Women | An Immersive Interactive Installation at Human Resources LA

Emji Saint Spero at Praxinoscope | 7-9pm August 11, 2023 | Writing Performance features by contemporary Los Angeles artists whose work is rooted in the written word. Limited edition risograph-printed broadsides will be on view and available at the event. Curated by Derek Denckla.

UpMoon Station at KCHUNG PUBLIC | 1-3pm August 19, 2023 | Join us in the red hot trailer outside MOCA Geffen for the chaotic lunar return of UpMoon Station, a terrestrial audio project of Jeremy Kennedy + Emji Saint Spero

Celebrate trans* brilliance and Trans Pride with us at the Opening Reception of A Place to Stay , a group exhibition of nine Los Angeles artists whose selected works focus on themes of respite and themes of shelter.

UpMoon Station at KCHUNG PUBLIC | 1-3pm May 17, 2023 | Join us in the red hot trailer outside MOCA Geffen for not-so-soft debut of UpMoon Station, a new terrestrial audio project of Jeremy Kennedy + Emji Saint Spero

Get wrecked with videos of two deranged, poetic performances at Device Grip, a poetry and performance series in Tucson, as part of The Post-Elevator Tour NxSW with Jeremy Kennedy.