Friday, November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Coaxial, Los Angeles
Rotten Sun is a performance project by Jester Bulnes, Jazmin Jazzy Romero, Cielo Saucedo, and Jesus Gallegos Yela, developed through my (Cielo Saucedo's) residency at Coaxial Arts Foundation. The residency functions less as a site of production and closer to a framework for ensemble formation. We will use the residency as a provisional studio where performance, video, and sound act as interdependent instruments of perception. In culmination of the one week residency, the ensemble will stage a one night performance that considers place as self. The work extends Coaxial’s architecture into a feedback system in which performers refract into multiples using audio-visual techniques, machine vision, and performance. Fantasies of sanctuary cities and surveillance economies entwine with the psychic terrains of terror, dressing oneself, and inheritance. Within this live environment, subjectivity and images circulate, are recorded, redoubled, and undone. The work emerges from a shared inquiry into how bodies move through architectures shaped by visibility and control. Set against the dense circuitry of Downtown Los Angeles, its cameras, patrols, and thresholds. Rotten Sun operates as a compositional study. Its an experiment in how perception is organized, how to look back at technologies, and how queerness and intimacy persists under capture. Cielo Saucedo (1993, Whittier, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She is an access worker and artist from a family of migrant farm workers. Her work encompasses writing, computer generated imagery, sculpture and machine vision. They received their BFA from School of the Art Institute, Chicago in 2020, and their MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2024. They were an Eyebeam Democracy Fellow (2024). Recent exhibitions of their work include presentations at PlaceHolder Gallery (2025), The Armory, Pasadena for Getty PST (2024), Francios Ghebaly, Los Angeles (2024), BlankSpace, Pittsburgh (2023), New Image Gallery, Los Angeles (2023), Honor Fraser, Los Angeles (2024), MexiCali Biennale, The Cheech at the Riverside Museum (2023), Human Resources, Los Angeles (2022) Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago (2021) and Rudimiento, Quito (2021). They have given panels and lectures at NYU, UPenn, the Whitney Independent Study Program, Emily Carr University, Indiana State University, and the Sandburg Instituut among other institutions. Jester Bulnes is a lens-based photographer and interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. Bulnes situates queerness* at the forefront of their work. Their use of queerness exists beyond sexuality, but also as an embodiment, impression, and a possible political site for transformation and (re)imagination. They approach their practice as a process of spatial and embodied (re)configuration—a queering of form, geometry, and gesture. Working across performance, dance, photography, sculpture, and sound, they explore how bodies move through power, and how space is organized to contain, surveil, or erase them. Jazmin Romero is an artist from Los Angeles, California. Her work explores how memory is embodied through performance, video, sound, and sculpture. Romero’s practice considers experimentation, improvisation, and collaboration as pathways for alternative forms of storytelling. She engages with the relationship between musical gesture and physical form to produce scores, assemblages, and compositions. She is also a member of various performance and music production collectives, such as COQUETA. Jesus Gallegos Yela is an interdisciplinary artist from Los Angeles, California. His work explores themes of hybridity, reconnection, energy transfer, labor, body modification, and scars- tracing how lived experiences inscribe both physical and emotional narratives. He is guided by remnants and discarded materials, which he views as vessels of information or objects that hold memory, energy, and knowledge from their past lives. Through intuitive processes, Gallegos Yela transforms these materials, reflecting on cycles of decay and regeneration. These cycles unravel through sculpture, installation, photography, video, and sound, often merging the human body and material.