Communicator Series: Ashton Phillips, Yvonne LeBien

Tuesday, January 13, 2026 at 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles

Multi-sensory, improvisational, chimeric, **Communicator Series no.15** shrieks of speculative mythology. Performances by Ashton Phillips, local interdisciplinary shapeshifter, and New York-based artist Yvonne LeBien incite divestment, dressing down of the audience (herein: you) through a strategic deployment of discomfort. A reminder: refracting violence is as essential and relevant as ever: Less an austere unvitation than a summons to resist. △ Communicator Series is a platform for queer and trans\* artists whose practice is situated in-between, troubling the boundaries between poetry, archive, performance, activism, and collective intimacies. We're here for work that is switchy, vers, and language-curious, that teases the edges of form as a poetic strategy of becoming otherwise. Attempts, failure, and works-in-progress encouraged. Curated by Emji Saint Spero.