Invasions
Jun'22 → Apr'24Poetry, Performance, Installation, Scam Text Aesthetics, Language Intrusion
San Francisco, Los Angeles, CDMX, Santa Barbara, Ojai
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Invasions: The Show is a live poetry performance that began as a reply to scam texts. Performed in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ojai, and Mexico City, the show blends spoken word, digital projection, and audience interaction to reclaim the aesthetics of intrusion. Each performance features the poet onstage responding to the language of extraction (spam, scams, seductive bots) with improvised replies, ritual interruptions, and lyrical defiance.
The show’s visual language draws from browser windows, notification popups, and fake login pages, everyday visual metaphors of digital manipulation. The performance becomes a séance for the datafied self, a glitchy exorcism of capitalist language, and a live composition of human-machine call-and-response.
Originally staged in intimate galleries and performance spaces, Invasions expanded into a solo exhibition at Silo Gallery in Santa Barbara, where it incorporated printed fragments of scam text, shredded marketing jargon, and audience-contributed replies into the scenography. The show asks what it means to be haunted by language not meant for you, but that still reaches you. It is a quiet resistance to the absurdity of persuasion. It is a poetry of reply, of refusal, of tender misuses.