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How your email finds me this week… 🌀

It’s been a BIG couple of months. Time to get all that embodied learning back into my body. 😅

Grateful for it all. Looking forward to the conversations ahead, the plans taking shape, and the new paths we’re beginning to walk together. 🌿

*Known creators tagged, with gratitude.

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sets from our last in progress gathering at @spirethechurch are now up on soundcloud!

an overdue thank you to everyone who came through and spent a saturday evening with us all the way back in may. as nightlife enjoyers, we wanted to do our best provide a space where all our senses were taken care of, cushions and ample seating, delicious food and nourishment, tea, a comfortable temperature, so that we could be fully immersed the experience of deep listening, music, and community.

thank you to the following for helping make it all happen: 
@babymfleo for the mind melting, hypnotising 2 hours of music curation, @swilkwork for the stunning and emotional performance piece, @starrrsky lighting duties, and @perilla__star for the nourishment
(& enno for door duty, @minhwa.concept audio recordings, @kk.shucko for gear help)

more hopefully coming soon <3,
@tifflaw @mmmmilkshapes

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MEMORY, BODIES, RITUAL
On view at Cine Lounge @madarts_space through December 20. A group video exhibition presented by @performance_in_flux

Featured in the exhibition Repeating Patterns and Always speaking you by Swilk @swilkwork

In Swilk’s performance installations, ethereal figures bound to their environment explore queer identity as an innate part of the human condition. The performers connect to objects of the Earth, emphasizing how the persistence of queerness parallels the permanence of the natural world. In the face of ongoing political violence, their work asserts that to eliminate queer people would require an undoing of human nature. “We are as inherent as the Earth itself.”

Repeating Patterns performed by Ell Boysen and Sif Rasmussen, Assist by Toya Willock
Always speaking you performed by Carmina Marquez and Tasya Abott

Swilk is a queer fiber installation and performance artist who creates both mechanically automated and environmentally activated sculptural weavings. Based in Oakland, California, their work connects people to the gestures of resilience that emerge from grief, particularly in the context of queer history.
Swilk has presented solo and group exhibitions internationally, including major projects at the Internet Archive (San Francisco), CICA Museum (South Korea), and New York Fashion Week, with work exhibited across the US, Europe, and Asia.

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These threads aren’t just hanging there — they’re alive, responding to real data. Swilk @swilkwork is a queer fiber installation artist working at the intersection of weaving. Their newest piece imagines queerness as a horizon we’re always moving toward, staged around a bathroom sink and a mechanized head. This is why it became iconic

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OPENING RECEPTION —
This Saturday, August 29 · 6–9 PM
MAD Arts Cine Lounge @madarts_space
481 S Federal Hwy, Dania Beach, FL 33004

Performance in Flux @performance_in_flux presents: Memory, Bodies, Ritual
Curated by Tere Garcia @tere.senyase

Performance in Flux joins forces with MAD Arts Cine Lounge to present a group exhibition of video works exploring the body through memory, identity, culture, ritual, and transformation.

Featuring:
🎥 My Mother and (A)I — Kawita Vatanajyankur @kawitavv
🎥 Each River Holds a Memory — Fernando Velázquez & Tiriri Rayo @f___velazquez_ @tiririrayo
🎥 Repeating Patterns & Always Speaking You — Swilk @swilkwork
🎥 We Knew the World in Fragments of Color — Victoria Ruiz @vic.toriaruiz

Memory, Bodies, Ritual brings together four video works that explore the body as a site of identity, memory, culture, and transformation.
Across the exhibition, performance becomes a language through which artists investigate how experience is held and expressed through the body. Movement, gesture, repetition, costume, and ritualized actions become ways of inhabiting different histories, identities, and states of being. The body can appear as a performer or an archive through which personal and collective experiences are made visible.
The works also consider how contemporary technologies can extend these embodied practices. AI, 3D scanning, and digital imaging introduce new ways of recording, directing, or transforming bodily presence. In other works, transformation happens through physical performance, symbolic imagery, and the body itself.

On view August 29, 2026 – December 20, 2026

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I shot 9 rolls of film for this. Come see the rest at 2727 California St for ‘Public Sanctuary’

Opening this Friday, Aug 21 from 8-10pm

Grateful for @affordablequinoa and @swilkwork for making this show happen and for everyone who got in a bathtub for me <3

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In the foggy Berkeley forest last weekend, I photographed Swilk @swilkwork working on their piece “when I am lost I look to the sky”.

The performance used hand woven wool tapestry and cotton thread to speak to themes of queer identity and connection.

Thank you to @swilkwork @samer.k.s @screwmoi

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resilience in grief @swilkwork

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Sharing a bean bag with @billygomberg and spacing out for three hours is exactly what I needed. The body and mind need to rest!

1) Cathenge at the Spire
2) Admire our socks (my tabis on the left and Billy’s Smartwools on the right)
3) @babymfleo surprising me by playing a Low song
4-5) Swilk 🤍
6) bean bag buddy Billy

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Oakland based fiber installation and performance artist, Swilk (@swilkwork), connects people to the gestures of resilience that emerge from grief, particularly in the context of queer history.

They will be performing a special, partially improvised, immersive and meditative, solo performance (recently debuted at NYFW) set to a backdrop of in progress host Shapes’ ambient music curation. Come prepared to sit or lay down, and sink into this immersive work.

Saturday, May 23rd @spirethechurch
6-10pm
tickets available in bio
https://ra.co/events/2431079

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