Video Still from Blue Lightning Ghost Train: Inpatient Program 1 by Kerosene Jones. Courtesy the artist.
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Proceeds go to Bluestockings Cooperative
A double feature of new performance works by geo blake and Kerosene Jones for the artists’ MFA thesis projects in the Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) Program at Brooklyn College. Proceeds from the program go Bluestockings Cooperative, a collectively-run activist center, community space and feminist bookstore that offers mutual aid, harm reduction support, and non-judgemental resource research, who will be providing Fentanyl and Xylazine testing strips and Narcan training on-site for attendees.
PROGRAM
geo blake: Under the Hood: Fiducial Romance
Through an interplay of live performance and mediated fragments, Under the Hood: Fiducial Romance, by geo blake and featuring Alanna Archibald, examines the intimacy embedded in economies of care, trust, and extraction. Merging movement, voice, transducers, and projected imagery, and drawing from the iconography of the automobile as both a site of fetishization and labor, Under the Hood engages with themes of objectification, autonomy, and the blurred lines between maintenance and possession.
Kerosene Jones: Blue Lightning Ghost Train: Inpatient Program 1
Blue Lightning Ghost Train: Inpatient Program 1 is the first phase of an experimental song, video, and performance cycle created and performed by Kerosene Jones, using archival materials to explore queer responses to harm reduction, particularly in regards to the ongoing opioid crisis, and drawing from Jones's personal experiences with opioid addiction. The development of the Blue Lightning Ghost Train series has received support from New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and a CUNY Social Practice Fellowship, and features mix engineering by Bassel Al-Rahim.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Las Vegas-born and Brooklyn-based, geo blake is a performance artist whose work illuminates the tensions between identity, perception, and the economies of intimacy. Using voice, composition, sculpture, and movement, they disassemble and reconfigure power structures—transforming control into collaboration, voyeurism into communion. Their performances unfold as sonic and physical negotiations, unsettling the boundaries between observer and participant, and exploring gender as both a site of play and resistance.
Kerosene Jones is a writer, curator, and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores extended vocal technique, queer hauntologies, and archival necromancy. Utilizing unorthodox compositional techniques and experimental research procedures, Jones endeavors to provide both sonic and ceremonial sanctuary for hungry ghosts with unfinished business. His work across mediums has been featured by Art Omi, BBC Radio 4, Black Mountain College Museum, CPR - Center For Performance Research, Montez Press Radio, Wave Farm, The Poetry Project, and Onassis USA. His arts & culture writing has been published by Interview Magazine, Document Journal, X-TRA, Screen Slate, MUBI Notebook, The Brooklyn Rail, The Kitchen Magazine, and LAMBDA Literary. He was a founding member of the poetry and performance collective The Anchoress Syndicate, and the host of the podcast “Pure Garbage: An Oral Examination of John Waters.” He is the Programs Manager at CPR - Center for Performance Research, and the Arts Editor of WUSSY Magazine, a queer arts & culture organization and biannual print publication based in Atlanta, GA.