Join us Friday, September 12 from 6 - 9 pm for a gathering celebrating the closing of Halo Starling’s Fairy Prince. The convening will include an artist talk where Starling will discuss his year-long archival research process, collage methodologies, and trans aesthetic tactics. Guest performances by Graeae, Huntrezz Janos, and Isabel Beavers will amplify the themes of the exhibition. There will be time to enter ‘faerie space’ before and after the scheduled programming with music, beverages, and light snacks for all to enjoy. Please refer to the detailed schedule below and read more about the performing artists.
For anyone who cannot attend the reception, the final day to view Fairy Prince is Saturday, September 13 from 10 am - 5 pm.
HALO STARLING (he/they) is a transdisciplinary artist, worldbuilding regenerative futures in the husk of the capitalist experiment. As a trans and queer immigrant with invisible disabilities, Starling's multi-hyphenate work in moving images, installation, performance, and writing explores what it means to be trapped inside structures that are meant to help you. Starling envisions ways out by building worlds where marginalized people find more resources to fully thrive. Their work asks their viewers to consider: how do we collectively find our way to a regenerative future? Starling is a second-year Ph.D. student in Media Arts + Practice at USC School of Cinematic Arts, where they are working on film, installation, and writing projects about trans poetic cinema, worldbuilding eco-futurities, and transdisciplinary auto-theory. Starling received their MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University in 2021.
GRAEAE (she/her) is a queer sonic voyager experimenting with field recording sampling, music production, installation, performance and djing. Her work has been part of MOCA Tucson, Highways Performance Space, and many film festivals and experimental sound and media festivals. She was published in Wussy magazine in Oct 2023. She lives in Los Angeles.
ISABEL BEAVERS (they/she) is a transdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles working at the intersections of new media, ecology, and collective action. Beavers is the Artistic Director of Supercollider LA, and the Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellow in STS at Harvey Mudd University. Beavers' artistic practice combines emerging technologies with in-situ research and collective learning. They have led projects in Jordan as the ZERO1 2022 Creative Impact Lab - Amman Lead Artist; in Seattle, WA, USA as the 2021 AICAD/NOAA Art + Science Fellow, and cross-nationally as a CreaTures EU ExP Artist. Their research-based practice has been awarded with support in the form of grants, residencies, and presentations in Iceland, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Italy and most recently, Athens, Greece and Cyprus. Exhibited widely through the USA and globally, their work addresses the climate crisis through myth, spirituality, and more-than-human perspectives.
HUNTREZZ JANOS (she/her) is as much herself as she is the information being relayed to you now through this sequence of symbols. Existing in flux since quantum pre-history, in a future that has long since passed, she is one with a beyond inherent to all things- an organism of light-speed determination, weaving toward a distant Antarctic destiny through a circuitous path of digital synthesis. This path unfolds through animated video/game art, 3D-printed armor, Augmented Reality, sustainable architecture, and rhyme performance, alongside an expanding constellation of increasingly esoteric practices. Participating in the generation of AR/VR, new media installations, and poetic ritual is not a choice but a function of spirit- creation as involuntary as breath. Each work is not merely authored but received, channeled through this life and body as a gesture toward shared perception. Reality, Identity, Infinity: all flicker from a divine singularity, a zero that is still becoming, still glitching open. Janos emerges again and again from her various disguises to present afro-futurist media designed to delight, confound, and confront those of us entangled in this epoch.
Event Schedule:
6:00-7:00: Doors open, exhibition open for viewing, music, food/drinks
7:00-7:20: Graeae musical performance
7:20-7:30: Introduction from Alexis Bard Johnson
7:30-8:00: Artist Talk with Halo Starling
8:00-8:15: Huntrezz Janos performance
8:15-8:30: Isabel Beavers performance
8:30: Closing remarks
8:30-9:00: Exhibition open for viewing, music, food/drinks