DENTAXUVIA - Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou & Huntrezz Janos
Friday, January 10, 2025
Doors: 7:00PM
Show 7:30PM – 9:00PM
Free for members
No one turned away for lack of funds
All Ages
Seated Performance
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Join us on January 10 for a live mixed reality performance experience that fractures the boundary between the virtual and the physical.
Through a cyber-feminist tale of dreams, post-apocalyptic cities, and queer love, DENTAXUVIA follows the supernatural journey of a duo and their avatars into the quantum and vast depths of the infinite potential of the future.
The performance fuses the unique artistic visions of Huntrezz Janos and Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, utilizing technology, sculpture, and poetry to conjure a fragmented futuristic scene of cyberpunk insurgents.
In this sci-fi explosion of visuals, the tangible meets the intangible as Huntrezz and Antigoni perform in wearable sculptures and as avatars in their virtual world. The result is an act of queer resistance that sheds their old skins and identities, empowering them to reclaim agency in the face of oppression and igniting belief that anyone can do the same.
This performance is organized as an off-site activation for Janos and Tsagkaroupoulou’s solo exhibition DENTAXUVIA - Chapter 1: Corporeal Conversations—on view November 16, 2024 - January 18, 2025 at Telematic Gallery—in which the artists have transformed their theatrical performance into an interactive installation.
The development of DENTAXUVIA was supported by TRANSFER, a fiscally-sponsored research & development project of Gray Area, and Onassis ONX.
In DENTAXUVIA Chapter 1: Corporeal Conversations, the player is transported into virtual embodiments of the artists trapped in a post-apocalyptic landscape. How did we get here? Which are our real bodies? What is happening to the boundaries of our physical, virtual, mental, and spiritual realities? How can we escape this dystopia? These questions invite players into complex dialogues about subjectivity and embodiment in a world where traditional boundaries have been blurred or dissolved. Starting with more questions than answers, players encounter numerous intelligences that occupy this trans-corporeal wasteland. Fires that learn as they burn, hypercute-comrade cockroaches who yearn for affection and know the deepest secrets of the landscape, and a multitude of alternate selves from different dimensions- like a little “alien” Antigoni, and a Huntrezz-Butterfly (among many others!) who are all there to help you explore the space, and maybe even help you escape it, through interspecies collaboration, and the power of queer love.
Merging performance, XR technologies, video game design, and queer ecologies, the project embraces non-linear and fluid notions of subjectivity, embodiment, time, and co-existence. The concept of elemental materiality is central to the work, moving beyond human-centered knowledge to explore the wisdom and agency of the elements themselves who share the secrets of the world. By blending the physical and digital, human and non-human, past and future, Dentaxuvia offers a speculative space for reimagining how we live, love, and survive in a post-apocalyptic times.. Through play and performance, it encourages us to rethink the boundaries of ourselves, opening up new possibilities for queer futurity and interspecies collective survival.
Huntrezz Janos is as much herself as she is the information being relayed to you now through this sequence of symbols. Born to Hungarian architect Szabó Gyöngyi and metal icon Scoonie Gee in Los Angeles, CA, Huntrezz is a light-speed organism determined to reach a distant Antarctic destiny by way of a circuitous path of digital synthesis involving animated video/game art, 3D printed armor, Augmented Reality, sustainable architecture, and rhyme performance along with a laundry list of other, increasingly esoteric practices. Janos emerges from her various disguises to present afro-futurist media designed to delight, confound, and confront those of us entangled in this epoch. She has showcased her work across platforms such as Redcat, Honor Fraser Gallery, Tate Museum, The Modern, MoMA, Adult Swim, Postmaster’s Gallery, Vellum LA, Transfer Gallery, The Athens Biennale, LACMA, Photographer’s Gallery, Torrance Art Museum, and Onassis ONX. She holds a BFA in experimental animation from California Institute of the Arts (2018) and an MS from the University of Southern California (2024).
Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou is a multidisciplinary artist from Athens, Greece based in Los Angeles, California. Their work spans video, installation, performance, and sculpture, forming experimental, immersive, interactive, and cinematic environments. Their world-body-building practice centers on themes of softness, deviance, kinship, affect and community building, creating radically fluffy hubs for unruly presents and hope-punk futures. Antigoni is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Media Arts and Practice at USC School of Cinematic Arts. They also hold an MFA in Media Arts from UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, and a BFA in Sculpture from the Athens School of Fine Arts in Greece. They have received numerous scholarships and awards, including from the Fulbright Foundation, the Onassis Foundation, and the ARTWORKS Fellowship from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Their work has been exhibited internationally in platforms such as as the Arnolfini Center of Contemporary Arts in Bristol (Solo Show), Honor Fraser Gallery in L.A., REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney CalArts, Hebbel Am Ufer in Berlin, Wrightwood 651, Athens Biennale, Berlin Biennale, Thessaloniki Biennale, and the National Opera of Greece, among others. They have collaborated and worked with notable artists such as William Pope.L (document 14), Annie Sprinkle (document 14), Annea Lockwood and La Pocha Nostra.
Telematic Media Arts is an black box gallery, production company, and art book publisher in San Francisco’s SoMa District with a focus on time-based arts, screen culture, and art’s intersection with technology.
TRANSFER is an experimental gallery that explores simulation and expanded practice. The gallery was founded in Brooklyn in 2013 to support artists making computer-based artworks, by installing solo exhibitions of experimental media art. In 2016 the gallery shifted to focus programming on solo exhibitions from women refiguring technology, and began traveling a new virtual exhibition format called the TRANSFER Download. In 2023 the gallery celebrated a decade of programming with the launch of a generative documentary film Almost in Real Time and established the TRANSFER Data Trust. In TRANSFER’s 10 years, the gallery has produced 80+ exhibitions of experimental media art, including international exhibitions, pop-ups and art fairs. In 2019 the gallery relocated from Brooklyn, New York to Los Angeles, California. In 2021 TRANSFER established headquarters in Miami, Florida. TRANSFER is led by Kelani Nichole, with support from the Director, Wade Wallerstein.
ONX Studio is an accelerator for a global community of member artists who create immersive XR and AI works. This hybrid experimentation, production and exhibition space is located in the Olympic Tower in Midtown Manhattan and was founded in 2020 in partnership between the Onassis Foundation and NEW INC. ONX Studio now exists as a project of Onassis Culture, working in partnership with organizations in New York, including New York University’s Tandon School, Games for Change, NEW INC, Rhizome, and MAX, as well as with global institutions such as IDFA, CPH:DOX, DiMoDA, and others. Offering development funding, state-of-the-art facilities, advocacy, and community for an international community of artists from a broad range of disciplines, ONX Studio has become an influential hub and manifestation of the dynamism of a new global interdisciplinary artistic ecosystem.
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