On Sunday 1/1 at 8pm at @kaje.world I’ll begin 2023 with an offering, a very special & personal performance piece. It is the result of experiences I’ve been gathering through queer community building, group facilitation, and the exploration of movement-based healing modalities. CW for blood & needles in this performance! Blood contains information, the physical material given by our ancestors. The previous generations have passed along their knowledge and their love, but they have also imparted their pain. By recovering within the context of a community and transmuting our pain into action based on love we can begin to heal in body and in soul. Read more

Yvonne: The audience enters a room. I am inside a dog cage. I have a blindfold and headphones on. There are headphones in a circle around me that are playing what I am hearing. The recording is a cacophony of voices. Read more

The Halloquium is a queer and trans led gathering of voices around the subject of nightlife. Held annually over Halloween weekend, the topics range from about working with the resources available in nightlife communities to build structures that better meet the needs of queer and trans people, for whom nightlife has always been a critical source of connection. This year the organizing committee decided to change the structure of the event. Instead of the public-facing conference that happened in 2020 and 2021, we gathered for a retreat on the first weekend of October to review the recordings of the conferences and reflect on the past two years. Read more

To begin Voluminous Arts’ 6-month residency at Kaje Projects, label founder Gavilán Rayna Russom shares some of her preliminary research on Gowanus, the neighborhood in Brooklyn where Kaje is located. Through the lens of that research, she explores connections between the neighborhood’s industrialization and her approach to the concept of a “research residency”. Read more

MONTEZ PRESS RADIO
Stand Up, Fall Down, a reading group
FEB 10—JUL 14, 2022


Looking at the legacy of humor in political art, transgression, and poor taste, each of the 11 Think Tank meetings will be divided into a discussion of texts and a writing workshop.

Over the course of the series, these writings will be modeled into narrative accounts of fictionalized artists whose work, lives, careers, public scandals, and private affairs address the very serious subjects we discuss. The writing can take any format, but we’ve tossed around the idea of recording scripted interviews with our fictional artist for radio. Read more