muck_stud

"ATM and River of Stars" (2023) What's inside the ATM? No thing, the beginning and the end, 14 billion years of long winded, shards of stories, in one container, all of them all of them all of them stars, a blackness as "matter beyond the equation of value" (Denise Ferreira da Silva) ------ Made over a period of 3 years. Started right before Covid. Heated up in June 2020. Kept right on going until the end. Cant believe its finished. Worked with the AMAZING Textile Lab at Textielmuseum Tilburg, NL using weaving, embroidery, and wool tufting techniques with the help of an amazing team of technicians and artists - a huge thank you to Judith Peskens, Frank de Wind, Hester Onijs. Part of my ongoing narrative and formal investigation called Muck Studies Dept. Special shout out to @jaywendytan and @angelfalken for help with construction. Now on view in the show "Textile Now" at the Textiel Museum @textielmuseum until Octobet 1st Thank you to @adelheid_smit and Sjouk Hoitsma for pushing through with me and getting us all the help and expertise we needed. I am so grateful it hurts!!!

Nobody Wade Never Too Much Geo Wyex JOAN Los Angeles @joanlosangeles Performance Oct 26, 2024 Dramaturgical support from Will Rawls @willjrawls Thank you to @theicala and @mondriaanfonds for the generous support Special thank you to Suzy Halajian, JOAN, Jeanne Vaccaro @whateverjeanne and Jennifer Doyle @sentimentalprof Photos Monica Nouwens ///////// During a university staff meeting / at the bottom of a river / at the site of the big bang, an esteemed professor, chair of Muck Studies Dept, collapses through and with a constellation of objects, processes, and material in a murky and gaseous scene of communion with that which is yet to arrive. A relative of Samuel Beckett’s classic absurdist play Waiting for Godot and Luther Vandross’ 1981 hit single “Never Too Much”, the performance is an extension of Wyex’s ongoing project Muck Study. Muck Study is a leaky method of approach to black and trans life that uses the sensorial as an investigative tool to allow for a certain squelch of history and meaning. Muck Studies Dept, an investigative personality inspired by so-called “muck-raker” Ida B. Wells and the cartoon character Inspector Gadget, conducts this research by “touching the bottom” of shallow, murky water, “looking for stars, outta what stinks.”

Nobody Wade Never Too Much Geo Wyex JOAN Los Angeles @joanlosangeles Oct 23 - Dec 21st Voices by Geo Wyex, S*an D. Henry-Smith @lil_sunchoke, and Constantina Zavitsanos Creative and install support by Kamron Hazel @yea.mhmmhm Audio engineering, sound artistry, creative support by Ghaith kween Qoutainy @_._k.w.e.e.n_._ ASMR conductor and demolitionist NDNMK Solutions @ndnmk_solutions Dramaturgical support by Will Rawls @willjrawls Poster by Geo Wyex and The Rodina Photos by Evan Walsh With generous support from @mondriaanfonds and @theicala Thanks to @suzymh__, @whateverjeanne, and @sentimentalprof ×××× Nobody Wade Never Too Much centers around Wyex’s new script, based loosely on Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s 1952 absurdist classic, Waiting for Godot. Organized as a circular conversation between three professors of Muck Study, the text is staged with office chairs turned into sound machines. The characters and related cosmologies reverberate at the edges (i.e. in the “muck”) as they meditate on the failures and possibilities of a shared sense of identity—in the landscape, in the body, between bodies, and beyond the confines of institutional walls. Further ruminating on what political action can look like, and how organizing strategies can be enacted in our contemporary moment, the work performs a deeply inside job: it refuses separation from the conditions of race, class, and gender, but raises the possibility of connection, pleasure, and insurgency in excess of what is made legible or apparent through and by institutional structures. Audio recordings, including Luther Vandross’s 1981 hit “Never Too Much” and the sound of Wyex’s piano being gently dismantled in Rotterdam, intersect with the transmission of the professors’ voices over FM radio signal, moving in and out of both visible and less visible spaces. This convergence allows for a loose constellation of meaning that complicates the boundaries between the audience and the characters, between inside and outside. Wyex invites his audience to wade with him through the sonic, the historical, the embodied, and the shimmering, offering possibilities for new frameworks of study and transmission.

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OPENING TONIGHT Wednesday Oct 23 - Dec 21 6pm - 9pm Nobody Wade Never Too Much JOAN Los Angeles with generous support from @theicala and @mondriaanfonds new works I am so grateful to be sharing gear up ya ears for a transgenre experiaahnz there is glitter in collaboration with Constantina Zavitsanos & S*an D. Henry-Smith as voices Kamron Hazel as creative consultant and install support NDNMK Solutions as demolitionist and ASMR conductor Ghaith kween Qoutainy as sound artist, engineer, and creative consultant Performance Sat Oct 26 w/dramaturgical support from Will Rawls @willjrawls A HUGE THANK YOU to Suzy Halajian at JOAN, Jennifer Doyle @sentimentalprof and @whateverjeanne for all your support!!! very grateful

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We got married - thanks @expertfundude for being our witness and thanks to my parents for supporting us and being present in ways I didn't always think were possible. thank you also to Jay's family for showing so much acceptance and warmth from afar what can I say grateful for it all - @jaywendytan

"I AM FORTY" AND ALSO I AM FARTY it's a dream and my gut is on overdrive -- LOVE ISNT ENOUGH but I'll take it - 40 YEAR OLD PARA b.L.A.C.K. TRANSSEXUAL MAN RUNNING / FARTING - the KEYS are the BEAT thank you to the FART HART of my lyfe/wyfe @jaywendytan - WE MOVE ANYWAY - freedom "ITS JUST A FEELING" so grateful all my cheeks hurt

PROUD OF MY GRADUATING STUDENTS ! Sihyeon Sean, Tara, Margarita, Tico, Eleanora, Isabella, Irene, Sam, Alma! BEAR Artistic Research BA Class of 2024, ArtEZ University of the Arts - Arnhem, Netherlands!! CONGRATULATIONS aaiiiiiii!!!!!

In light of the ongoing genocide in Palestine, we staff of ArtEZ University of the Arts support student negotiations with the Executive Board for full disclosure of financials and open divestment from Israeli institutions. Please find the letter to the Executive Board link in bio, and sign it if you are interested and work for ArtEZ (Arnhem, NL). Please fwd to interested parties, to show support for the students. #artez #freepalestine

Scoop up a copy of @movementresearch Performance Journal issue #60 @performancejournal_mr -- I'm in there with some other troubled wizards - @lil_sunchoke @young.anchovy and @keioui to name a few ... gonna be good!!

in you and me and between us the generalizible swarm that ungrounds - free palestine means - divestment now - power to the student and faculty protestors and everyone showing up in the face of such brutality - please donate to my link in bio to help out Gazans trying to leave or rebuild - the students the next generation says NO to the future being forced on them - they take care of each other - they are not afraid and I am in awe of them. learning -