Saturday, September 10th
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Free

Mask wearing is highly recommended indoors. N/95, KN/95, surgical masks suggested and provided.

Join us for a screening of new film 'Elysium' by Berlin-based artist Persia Beheshti and Internet Artist @poorspigga. Screening will be followed with a DJ set by Mandate Heaven.

Synopsis:

Guided by the voice of an angelic cyber-celestial liminal deity, a girl moves between the corporality of earth and the ethereal in heaven and the digital, only to ascend through the force of network spirituality.

Film Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Lens 2.39:1

Credits:

Director, Producer, & Editor: Persia Beheshti
Voiceover Script: Poorspigga
Actor: Persia Beheshti
Voiceover Actor: Poorspigga

Artist Bios:

Persia Beheshti is an artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her practice concerns relationships between eschatology, spirituality, and social thought. Beheshti's work often explores other-wordly and ethereal subject matter, with the intention to unearth allegories for alternate realities across widespread subcultural milieu.

https://www.instagram.com/persiabeheshti

Instagram user @poorspigga is a project by Florida based net artist and shitposter Sofia Honekman. It explores the figure of the egirl, feminization of technocapitalism in the figure of the Girl, Posting as a format, the dissolution of identity through schizoposting, the obsession with the image, and masturbatory online addiction. Through perpetual posting and interactions, @poorspigga’s audience sustains her perverse existence in this nonspatial realm. Every interaction keeps her from dying, resulting in a perverse parasocial and addictive relationship between figure and follower, watcher and watched.

https://www.instagram.com/poorspigga