Closing night
featuring performances by:
preach r. sun, joseph ravens, meadow l’elle,
Cities unexpected field, and miao jiaxin
PREACH R. SUN
“‘UnEarth[Ling] ++ (Inter the Revenant of AmeriKKKa’s Sacred Reich)”
12:00-7:30 IN THE FRONT COURTYARD
Preach R Sun, i am.... have done .... will do....
*Observers are encouraged to bring flowers and single dollar bill
UnEarth(Ling), 2023, Photo by Steven Creson. Courtesy of Preach R Sun.
JOSEPH RAVENS
“BACK TO GO FORWARD”
Joseph Ravens (b.1968, USA) holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theater and studied audiovisuals at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam before earning a Master of Fine Arts in Performance from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Numerous grants and awards have allowed Ravens to build an international reputation as an artist, curator, and academic throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Ravens is founder and director of Defibrillator Gallery and faculty in the Performance Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Visit josephravens.com to learn more.
Corpulence, 2019, Photo by Doris Steinbichler. Courtesy of The Artist
Meadow Le'elle accompanied by Yaz Lancaster
“To be Loved by Death”
Meadow Le'elle is a local clown and music producer who makes textured, experimental electronic beats with "poperatic" vocals. Meadow has performed in the greater tri-state area for the last 5 years, making a name for itself by performing at venues like Trans Pecos, Purgatory, TV Eye, and the Meatlocker. This is Meadow’s fourth Grace Exhibition Space performance.
Meadow's music production is most inspired by noise, opera, pop,and dance music. Complexity craves simplicity is its motto as it prefers to make music on BandLab, a music making app on the phone. Its live performances teeters with eroticism, melancholy, and abstract expression. It uses vocal effect pedals and the spirits of beyond to create an intriguing and haunted soundscape with expressive interpretive dance. Meadow's purpose is to invite people into the visceral expression of their sincerest woes whilst reminding people that not all clowns are made to laugh, but to help others engage in radical, authentic expression of self.
Meadow Le’elle at Rubulad, 2024, photo by Alex Kent. Courtesy of The Artist
Yaz Lancaster is an experimental artist whose practice is grounded in queer, DIY, and liberatory frameworks. Cultivation of care and intimacy, post-genre collaboration, and accessibility are priorities of their artistic ethos. Yaz frequently performs solo sets with violin/voice and electronics that comprise improvisations, songs, and composed music; and as death ambient project "medium." with gg200bpm. They've worked with artists including Centennial Gardens (Dreamcrusher + KING VISION ULTRA), Charles Gaines, claire rousay, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Miss Grit, Nyokabi Kariuki, OHYUNG and Sean Pecknold; and are a member of PTP Vision artist collective. Yaz was a 2025 Pioneer Works resident (Feb/Mar), and has been recently commissioned by Asia Stewart/The Shed, International Contemporary Ensemble, and the 2025 Gaudeamus Festival. They are the founder and curator of performance series HEAVY HEARTS, celebrating vulnerability and community in harsh sonics. They additionally enjoy powerlifting, musical art journalism, and summers down South.
Yaz Lukeivanovich, 2024, Image by Luke Ivanovich. Courtesy of the Artist
miao jiaxin Studio
in collaboration with
Arantxa Araujo and Joseph Sledgianowski
“miao jiaxin studio (massage therapist)”
Miao Jiaxin Studio is perhaps best known for transforming his New York studio into a jail and offering it as accommodation on Airbnb for $1 per night. The same space was later repurposed as a blind dating venue and, subsequently, a massage therapy clinic. Miao’s work often explores the ambivalent—and at times antagonistic—tension between the individual and governing or cultural authorities, questioning assumptions about power and its relationship to politics. He positions the artist as someone who transgresses boundaries, challenges consensus, and remains deliberately distant from authorities.
Miao Jiaxin, Image courtesy of The Artist
cities unexpected field
Cities Unexpected Field is a NYC based three-piece outfit featuring drums, bass, saxophone, and varying electronics. The band is made of improvisational musicians: Jonah Knapp-Wilson, Sam Kurzydlo, and Jess Belardi, who investigate and explore themes of community, agency, ritual, impermanence, and grief. After forming in the spring of 2023, they have traversed New York DIY’s threshold between music and performance art–from live scoring queer erotica to accompanying multimedia choreography.
Cities Unexpected Field, Roof Shoot, 2025, Photo by Sam McVicker. Courtesy of the Artist.
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.