Transvengence Vol. 12
June 14 @ 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Free
REVENGE OF THE DOLLS
Hosted by Joss Barton
Featuring Ava Mirage Wanbli & Eris
Doors: 7PM
Open Mic: 8PM
Performances: 8:30PM
Featured Performers
Ava Mirage Wanbli
Ava Mirage Wanbli (b.1989) is a Chicago based new media performance artist. Her work addresses consumption and production of self through interdisciplinary practices in performance art, new media video animations, and experimental video game development. Ava draws from her fascination on 3D scanning to archive her body while expanding on dialogues around hyper sexualization, voyeurism, labor, and self constructed mythologies as a trans woman. She has performed and exhibited at the Supernova Digital Animation Festival in Denver, CO, The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Madison, Wisconsin, Chicago Artist Coalition, and at the Depaul Art Museum in Chicago. She has received the Make A W ave Artist Award from 3Arts organization in Chicago. She has been featured as one of the ten New City 2024 Breakout Artists of Y ear in Chicago.
She currently is focused on how ritualized actions operate as psychological contracts of embodied communion across mythologized presence within live performance art, voice as signal, digital world building, and activated sculptures as bodily expansion
Eris
Professional succubus by day, exclusive girlfriend to many by night. A lover of all things sensual and chaotic, Eris blends the alluring darkness of a supercilious showgirl with the delicate charm of a southern belle serving flaky biscuits with a side of cinnamon honey butter. Yes, I know you’re drooling and shame has no place in this temple.
My artistry explores the tender layering of the histories of Black womanhood, malleability of trans identity, my commitment to faith and Spirit, and embracing the erotic as roads for transformation, which can only bloom from experience. Blending showgirl performance , ancestral and orisha-based veneration, spoken word, and dance Eris is packaged and inspired by the mystique of self-determination: favor of the martyr leads resurrection of one’s highest self.
This performance will be an insight into my personal journey with glamour, rage, sisterhood, affirmation, and grace.