night four
FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY:
Alex romania x stacy lynn smith, amygdala, and an immersive experience from The VR Archive for Performance Art.
Amygdala is a Brooklyn based drag apparition and multidisciplinary artist who merges video, sound design, live performance, and fiber art into audiovisual installations. Nestled within the hypocritical, the paradoxical and the absurd, she's presented work at Grace Exhibition Space, Parasol Projects, Millennium Film Workshop, House of Yes, and La Mama Experimental Theater Club. She is the Brood-mother of Pleasure Dome, a semi monthly variety show that explores pleasure, utopia, and queer futurity (returning May 7th!)
Psychic Wormhole (Stacy Lynn Smith + Alex Romania) is a creative duo and production company making experimental films and multidisciplinary performances. The duo excavates trauma and somatic memory as a means to reclaim embodiment; autobiography filtered through Horror, Sci-Fi, Afro-futurism and Arthouse Cinema create gritty personal work. Recent works include “Face Eaters” at The Chocolate Factory Theater; an epic, multimedia performance opera processing global grief, political insanity, and suicide. Sweat Variant’s inaugural Artists Supporting Artists Program grant supports Psychic Wormhole to continue work on their debut feature film, RECKONING, a visceral abstract memoir grappling with Smith's survivorship of child sexual abuse and the lifelong effects of Complex-PTSD.
Smith and Romania are respective Movement Research Artists in Residence. As Psychic Wormhole, the duo have been awarded residencies and support from Djerassi, MacDowell, Glasshouse Art.Life.Lab, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Rosekill Art Farm, Grace Exhibition Space, Queens Council on the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, City Artist Corps and were shortlisted for the 2025 Creative Capital Award in Film / Video. Psychic Wormhole have recently begun an exciting relationship with the Wexner Center’s Film / Video Studio, providing project mentorship.
Grace Exhibition Space welcomes a new spring season in this time of rapid change and accelerated bewilderment, empowering the immediacy of Now. Laughter and rage felt together will not abandon our utopian visions, but become our catalyst through the chaos to reach a better end. Presented on the floor, eliminating the separation of artist over viewer, we will together be pulled into the ideas being presented in an egalitarian, nonhierarchical way.
GES proudly welcomes the 18th spring season Laughter-Rage in Action with diverse, equitable, inclusive and multi-generational works.