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fauxlographic
//elle mehrmand
november [21-23] 2011
opening reception monday 11-21-11 @ 6pm
performance @ 7pm
university of california san diego
visual arts facility // performance space
fauxlographic is a performative installation that takes place within an ethno-dysphoric cloning lab, where one can clone themselves in order to analyze their diasporic anxiety. The fauxlographic clones enact sonic rituals in Farsi, [...]
I’m working on a new project focused on creating autonomous local networks that don’t rely on corporate infrastructures to function. I imagine these having a broad range of possible uses, but the initial inspiration was to create technologies to facilitate communication to prevent gendered violence, inspired by community based, anti-racist, prison abolitionist responses [...]
I’m currently working on a book manuscript to be published by Atropos Press in the next few months, including texts written by myself and in collaboration with Elle Mehrmand and transcriptions of panels with Stelarc, Sandy Stone, Ricardo Dominguez, Amy Sara Carroll, Brian Holmes and James Morgan. Zach Blas is the [...]
“Transition”, a video I created with the Electroncic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab, including Elle Mehrmand, Ricardo Dominguez, Amy Sara Carroll and Brett Stalbaum, is being shown at the MIX 24 Queer Experimental Film Festival, along with another video from our group, “Precession”. I’m so thrilled about being included in this amazing program put [...]
On our way to Baltimore this weekend!
Queer Viral Aesthetics: Control and Resistance Sponsor:
American Studies Association Annual Meeting
Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Sat, Oct 22 – 12:00pm – 1:45pm Building/Room: Hilton Baltimore, Holiday Ballroom 4
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Queer Viral Aesthetics: Control and Resistance
Session Participants: Chair: Zachary M. [...]
I finally had a bit of time to myself, now that last week’s performances, papers and mid-term dance are behind me, so I finally made it back down to OccupyLA. I haven’t been there in over a week, maybe 2, and it was amazing, inspiring. Walking into the plaza area by city hall, I immediately [...]
Talks and Performances
2012
January 20, 21, Duke University
Marxism and New Media Conference
February 7, San Francisco
RADAR Reading Series
March 2, Irvine
UC Irvine, Comparative Literature Graduate Conference, Impasse
March 9 - 13, Austin, TX
SXSW Interactive, Queer Viralities Panel
April 6, Los Angeles
Changlings: A Night of Trans Performance, Highways Performance Space
April 19, 20 Los Angeles
WANDERLUST, Latino/a poetics of place, Highways Performance Space
August, Mexico City
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics VIII Encuentro, performance and workshop
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- Alexis Lothian – Queer Geek Theory
- b.a.n.g. lab
- Elle Mehrmand
- Gurl Where You At?
- Helaine Gawlica
- Kate Bornstein
- Mommy Fiercest
- Networked Performance
- Occupy California
- Occupy Everything
- post.thing.net
- Prosthetics – Nikki Moore
- S. Bear Bergman
- Sexgenderbody
- Supercluster – Claudia Algara, Tijuana Artist
