September 18, 2026

Artists

BENIN GARDNER

Benin Gardner is a dance artist and writer from Los Angeles who lives in New York.

JOEL WATSON

Joel Watson is a writer, actor-performer, and filmmaker. Latest work includes his play BO DIDDLEY WUZZA STEEL DRIVIN MAN!! presented at PAGEANT and the film JET BLACK FUTURE!!. Joel's current vibe is creating epic narratives featuring ham fisted heroes that use a sorta faux revolutionary poetic speech with screamin n sweatin n convulsin n thrustin n cryin into microphones with really long cords to create what he's decided today is called Black Synthetics....in order to interrogate the intersections of etc. etc. etc. ampersand insert semicolon; written by AI. Joel lives here. Joel.

XANDRA IBARRA

Xandra Ibarra is a California-based visual and performance artist that works across performance, video, and sculpture. She often uses both research and visual practices to think through racialized and gendered boundaries of decency and what is seen as proper and improper. Her work has been featured in Art in America, Artforum, Frieze, Forbes, Hyperallergic, ArtNews and in various academic journals and books nationally and internationally.