Friday, September 18, 2026 at 8:00 PM to 11:30 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
We're thrilled to welcome back Negativland, presenting their new AV extravaganza SIGNIFICANTLY LESS DECEPTIVE with their long time visual collaborator, SUE-C, who will be there live and in person doing her hands-on thing. The opening act is the impossible-to-accurately-describe Irene Moon, who will break your brain with even more words and sounds about insects that you didn't know you didn't know. DJ Professor Cantaloupe spins vinyl in the lounge throughout the night! ∆ Legendary sound collage group Negativland and live cinema visual artist SUE-C collaborate to bring you their latest audio-visual performance about our minds, our current realities, and the evolving forms of media and technology that orchestrate our perceptions: SIGNIFICANTLY LESS DECEPTIVE. For more than four decades, Negativland has redefined experimental media through their culture-jamming practice, exposing the mechanics of misinformation and spectacle. Paired with SUE-C’s handmade real-time video, SIGNIFICANTLY LESS DECEPTIVE becomes a dense, multi-sensory investigation into how our collective belief systems are shaped. “An urgent show by Negativland and artist SUE-C calls time on a tech dystopia that is as malevolent as it is stupid... to meet the terrifying contemporary moment... as the world slides incrementally into meltdown.” - The Wire Magazine "Negativland are proud subverters of culture, causing trouble while having fun." - NPR Tiny Desk Concert ~ Irene Moon is the performance identity of Katja C. Seltmann, PhD, an entomologist and Director of the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration at UC Santa Barbara. Since 1997, Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon has brought the aesthetics of the laboratory into art galleries, radio stations, and music venues. Through absurd but factually accurate presentations about insects, Moon applies the conventions of scientific presentation in an ongoing attempt to elevate entomology as a rock genre. https://www.begoniasociety.org/