About Emilý Æyer
Emilý Æyer is a vocalist and composer who lives and works in Houston, Texas. They have studied vocal performance for over twenty years. Æyer works as a vocalist, freelance writer, event coordinator, and figure model. Recent performances include several appearances in the variety show Carol (2016–18), Your Very Own Funeral with creative partner Traci Lavois Thiebaud at Private Eye Gallery (2018), CAMH performance Cell Lust | a Body also with Thiebaud (2018), and the concert series Internal/Eternal (2018).
About Rebecca Novak
Rebecca Novak works within the practices of free improvisation, visual art and writing to explore the performative relationships between environment and self. As an improviser, she explores sound with an evolving constellation of objects and instruments including cornet, piano, autoharp, glass vases, melodica, short-wave radio, Styrofoam, and ping-pong balls. She has also written text-based scores for interdisciplinary works that combine sculpture, movement, sound, live writing, and acting. She has performed and presented work at Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico City, Mexico), Atlantic Center for the Arts (New Smyma Beach, Florida), ghost (Santa Fe, New Mexico), Daughter of Lady Friends Experimental Music Salon, New Media Art & Sound Summit (Austin, Texas), DiverseWorks, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Project Row Houses, MECA, and The Menil Collection Byzantine Fresco Chapel (all Houston, Texas), and she has recorded and performed as part of the trio Garden Medium with Sandy Ewen and Carol Sandin Cooley, and with cassette tape/electronic musician Steve Jansen.
About S Rodriguez
S Rodriguez is a Houston-based interdisciplinary artist, organizer, and a current member of the DiverseWorks artist board. They are the co-creator of Paraspace Books, a transient bookstore dealing queer sci-fi and speculative fiction and a 2017 Idea Fund recipient. Their work most often explores the intersection of technology, the internet, and the nature of bodies—physical, digital, and linguistic. They have performed or exhibited in various galleries around Houston, including Box13, DiverseWorks, Alabama Song, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and Wedge Space.
About Francine Thirteen
Francine Thirteen landed from Venus in Dallas, Texas, where she began her earthly life. She is a proud Libra/Scorpio who creates in a genre/aesthetic she calls ‘Ritual Pop’. She really likes making soup and baking gluten-free bread.
About Gunther Zecena
Gunther Zecena is an up-and-coming Visual and Musical Artist from Sylmar, California now living and working in Houston, Texas. His work mixes elements of experimental ambient, shoegaze, synth pop, house, and electronic trance music with themes of love, sexuality, the human experience, and futurism.
