Friday, December 13, 9PM–midnight
At FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA, CA 90065
Info on our space here
Suggested donation sliding scale: $1-$25
Reflection of Space invites performers Avery Collins-Byrd, Jose, Eva Spieser, and Nube Cruz to share their work that encapsulates the way space changes the body. At times we do not notice the changes that our bodies morph through; like how our bodies change in weight by a small piece of lent tagging along with us from home. Or the way our body changes under the pressures of society, colonization, and capitalism. This will be an intimate viewing of performances, and we ask folks to be present for the duration of each performance. This show will also be a part of fundraising relief for Palestinians going through an extreme genocide of their bodies and Native lands.
All donations collected via Reflection of Space will be split between Connecting Humanity and Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity
This performance is part of Community Quilting Bee’s Fundraiser for Palestine.
About The Performers
Avery Collins- Byrd (They/She) is from South Central California, and visits their family throughout the year in Houston, Texas, which has been an important part of their growing up. Community, family, and ancestry are at the center of their artistic and personal practices. Interested in thinking through how somatic and embodiment practices can be a form of resistance in the Black community, shifting colonial ideas of what the Black body and Black resistance are. Art is a tool for them to imagine realities that are not yet existent. They are an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, video, sound, ceramic, and writing. Their work focuses on the ways that folks encounter and communicate with one another, specifically focusing on how we encounter the Black femme body and experience. They are also interested in practicing an art practice that centers Black focused community work. They are currently in their fourth year at UCLA majoring in Fine Art. They have previously shown work at the Coaxial Foundation, New Wight UCLA gallery, and Williams and Clark Library, and Sovern LA. Instagram: @blksalome__ & @avery_collinsbyrd
Nube Hawk Cruz is an artist exploring Indigenous mythologies, science fiction, and rituals to delve into the Indigenous subconscious. Their art merges Indigenous technology and aesthetics with speculative fiction, archival data, and queer themes, functioning as a form of time travel. Over the past five years, Cruz has focused on refiguration and Indigenous cosmologies, examining the intersection of Indigenous technologies with contemporary experiences. Using diverse mediums like site-specific sculpture, 3D scanning, digital archive design and mapping, photography, performance art, and digital technologies Cruz investigates and documents their connection to land, ritual, and the body. Their work creates new myths and realities, fostering the transformation and preservation of culture, mythologies, science, sci-fi, time travel and the queer body as a vessel. They were a researcher with the Mobile Indigenous Community Archive Project at UCLA as well as Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles and are a community activist with local tribal communities as well as transnational Indigenous cultural revitalization grassroots projects.
José Ángel is an interdisciplinary Mexican artist based in Oxnard, CA, whose work explores surreality, dreams, identity, and interpersonal connection. His artmaking process involves surrealist automatism, relying on the human body and intuition as sources for creation, exploring everyday life, human relationships, and the tension between connection and alienation. José’s art becomes a necessary tool for healing, survival, and resistance to the chronic demands of a productivity obsessed society. He works with multiple mediums to create spaces for reflection on mental health, community, and the shared experience of navigating a complex world.
Eva Speiser (b. 2000, Pittsburgh, PA) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles. They recently completed a BA in Art and a BS in Cognitive Science at UCLA. They like collecting trash, embarking on long research projects, and having their materials comment on their own histories. Their rust belt upbringing poised them to be sympathetic to non-living things that fell out of use/were discarded. Their practice also includes more conceptual, non-object based works, but they come from a similar place; they want to understand how things came to be. As an artist and art industry employee, they will continue to contend with the ties that connect resource extraction/exploitation to art collection. Speiser’s work has been featured in the New Wight Gallery, The Little Gallery, Before the Moon Falls, and California Center for the Arts, Escondido.