AN EVENING OF HYBRID DRAG PERFORMANCE
MAY 19, 2023HONOR FRASER GALLERY
Wesleigh Gates (she/they) is an artist & academic working across disciplines to foster connection, collectivity, and care. Her performance work as a director and collaborator has been seen in New York, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston, and Prague, and has been supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art at the Frontier.
Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou (they/them) is a visual artist from Athens, Greece based in Los Angeles. In their multidisciplinary practice, they explore notions of intimacy, alienation, gender and the affective components of computation in a rapidly advancing technological society. Manifesting in sculptural installations, experimental films and performances, their work is revisiting the neglected “herstories” of the past, challenging normative power structures, and amplifying queer voices to reimagine radical futures.
Anna-Maria Velentza (she/her) is a psychologist with research experience in engineering principles, IoT, androbotics. Theyhold a MSc in Cognitive Robotics, and studies the rolecognitive functions such as memory and attention in Human Robit Interaction, as well as the role ofhumans in Cyber Physical Systems. Velentza is a Fulbright Scholar and a PhDstudent in Human-Robit Interaction Research at the Laboratory of Informatics and Robotics for Education and Society at USC.