Communicator Series: WRITING ON RAVING — live event
Communicator Series presents WRITING ON RAVING at the Poetic Research Bureau in the 2220 Archives. Communicator Series presents an evening of autotextual inquiry, sonic assemblage, and immersive exchange to celebrate the release of Writing on Raving, an anthology of fugitive encounters and ephemeral intimacies from the Brooklyn underground rave scene and beyond, edited by McKenzie, Geoffrey Mak and Zoë Beery. Resisting both archival codification and the delulu utopias of the present tense, Writing on Raving enacts a critically dissociative practice of rupture. It reverberates in ambiguity, dehydrated and deconstructing...becoming, in a sense, the after after afters. This event features hybrid performances by McKenzie Wark, Zoey Greenwald, Jasmine Infiniti, 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 and the broader socio-political implications of raving in one of the world's strictest anti-drug countries. This film is part of a broader ongoing series about global rave scenes, and will be introduced by host Michelle Lhooq. Writing on Raving is available at OR Books: orbooks.com/catalog/writing-on-raving △ Communicator Series highlights queer and trans* performance artists whose practice is situated in-between. We're here for work that is switchy, vers, and language-curious. Work that can’t resist approaching the potential of failure, that the teases the edges of form as a poetic strategy of becoming otherwise, that fucks around and sometimes finds out, or at least challenges you to. Curated by Emji Saint Spero. Sound by jeremy kennedy. Videography by Nina Sarnelle.
Starts: 2025-05-23T19:30:00Z
Ends: 2025-05-23T21:30:00Z
Where: 2220 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90057, United States
Price: $0.0