A NIGHT OF LOVING DEVOTION TO THE END
OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
AUGUST 05, 2023
HONOR FRASER GALLERY
A festive darkwave wedding ceremony between destruction and regeneration on the occasion of We Are They: Glitch Ecology and the Thickness of Now at Honor Fraser. Featuring music by Priestusssy and Mirrored Fatality, poetry by Cielo Saucedo and Morsel Monroy, and a performance by Edgar Fabian Frias. Food by Kumpay Kitchen and drinks by (Future Gin, Dead of Night, or Ventura Spirits) will also be available. So bring on your laments for ecological collapse, a romance for radical kinship, and meet your new comrades on the dancefloor.
Star Feliz/Priestusssy (they/them) is an artist, musician, and healer living and working on Tongva land (Los Angeles, CA). Feliz illuminates the processes of world-building as they braid back together the strands of life within their Afro-Taino lineage of the Caribbean and its diaspora that were so violently fragmented since the onset of European colonization.
Cielo Saucedo(they/them)
Cielo Saucedo is an disabled artist from a family of migrant farm workers. They work with computer generated imagery, non-fiction writing and sculpture to disrupt notions of humanism and make space for disabled mind-bodies and ecologies.Technology mediates their artistic production with the wax and wane of their ability. From this direct response to their body, an unprivileged mutuality between ecological space and virtual experience is offered.
Morsel Monroy(they/them)
Is a Los Angeles based poet and cellist who identifies as a queer femme Latinx person. Their writing is inspired by a blend of personal experiences with addiction, growing up in the repressive and racist American South, and the works of authors such as James Baldwin, Allen Ginsburg, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzaldúa. They currently attend the University of California Santa Cruz and is apart of an artist collective called Family Dinner located in LA.
Edgar Fabián Frías (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, psychotherapist, educator, curator, and brujx based in Los Angeles. With a passion for breaking boundaries and creating new forms of knowledge, Frías blends diverse artistic disciplines to produce thought-provoking and immersive works of art that transcend conventional categories. Their oeuvre encompasses installation, photography, video art, sound, sculpture, printed textiles, GIFs, performance, social practice, and community organizing, reflecting their commitment to experimentation and innovation.
Vaughan Larsen (she/they) received their BFA in Photography from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Later that year, they placed First in the Getty Images 2019 International Creative Bursary Award, first prize in the Amsterdam Pride Photo Award, and was named a 2019 Fellow by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary Nohl Fellowship. Their work has been shown throughout Wisconsin, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, New Orleans, Pratt MWP’s campus gallery, and Europe. Their work has been written about in several publications, including Humble Arts Foundation. Larsen has presented at the Paul Brach Lecture Series at CalArts in 2021. They are now preparing their first solo museum exhibition at the Museum of Wisconsin Art.
Sammie Veeler (she/her) is an artist based in Los Angeles whos work takes the shape of undulating loops in time playing out across performance, digital media, world building, and prose. Veeler seek to examine the spiritual and transformative power of personal and collective digital archives by connecting the personal practice of preserving her late husband's personal data to the collective production of history online. Veeler is the co-founder and Gallery Director of New Art City.