Murmurs will be hosting a fundraiser benefit to support artist, community organizer and disability activist thai Lu.

The fundraiser event will be a day comprised of 8+ artist performances, music performances and DJ sets, as well as various specialty food and drink offerings. In addition to the live event, we will be hosting an art auction with works from over 30 artists worldwide. 

𝕎𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖: Murmurs -1411 Newton St. Los Angeles 90021
𝕎𝕙𝕖𝕟: July 13, 2024 | Doors 5pm | Performances 5:30–9pm
*Rapid tests at the door and covid masks are required and will be provided - please be respectful*

ℙ𝕖𝕣𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕤 𝔹𝕪:
(LIVE) Mia Carucci / SOLTERA / Priestusssy
(DJ SET) Mandy Harris Williams / Friki Fran
(ARTIST) thai Lu / Eb

Sponsored Drinks by:
Yola Mezcal | Condesa Gin | Cann | Sunset Cultures | Homage Beer

𝔽𝕠𝕠𝕕 𝕠𝕗𝕗𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕓𝕪:
sensi • taste (Suki Sekula / Dorrin Shahsavari / Fran Songheng)

ℂ𝕠𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕚𝕓𝕦𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝔸𝕣𝕥𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕜:
Peter Chung / Angel Reyes / Nat Decker / Sasha Zamani / Cielo Saucedo / Jules Chimes Gårder / Amia Yokoyama / Gabrielle Rosenstein / Narumi Nekpenekpen / Clue Quilala / Sula Bermúdez-Silverman / Gabriela Forgo / Aimee Goguen / Sonya Sombreuil / Misa Chhan / Laura Stinger / Anja Salonen / CFGNY / Alex Patrick Dyck / Zoe Gustavia Anna Whalen / Women's History Museum / Adrienne Greenblatt / Suki Sekula Meesh Sara Fradkin / Pear Ware / Somnath Bhatt / Nong Rak / Cy MMR Tulip / Dove ER / Dean JF Hoy / Xixi Edelsbrunner / HURTENCE / Nube Hawk Cruz / Izabelle New
**ART AUCTION WILL BE LIVE JULY 12**

thai Lu is a chronically ill, disabled, autistic, and gender-divergent Vietnamese American from a family of refugees. thai works at the intersections of social, cultural, and physical effects of chronic illness, Southeast Asian diaspora, post-war intergenerational suffering, and the concept of metamorphosis.

thai is a cancer survivor with multiple chronic illnesses that do not allow them to safely receive vaccination for Covid and other viruses. They are severely immunocompromised with chronic skin infections that require expensive medical dressings. Their immune system has been too susceptible to risk seeing doctors, therapists, or specialists in-person, or receive any consistent hands-on treatment. Their care, including home care, physical therapy, and other treatments have been on hold since the start of the pandemic, leaving them bedbound for five years to fend for themselves however possible, usually through continuous crowd-funding efforts online.

thai does not qualify for state or federal financial aid and is therefore forced to sacrifice any sense of privacy in an effort to raise funds for their survival, a constant performance against social media algorithms, surveillance, and censorship. In an era where GoFundMe stands as health insurance, this is unsustainable without consistency in community mutual aid - something thai learned growing up in a mycelium network of displaced refugees. We learn to make the most out of nothing.

Having worked for two decades in fashion and design, thai has nurtured precious relationships with fellow artists and alchemists from East to West. their art practice has become an un-simple act of survival and surrender, a visceral expression of grief and isolation. But their connection to abolitionist world-builders has kept them alive and grounded in the in-between.

Despite these circumstances, thai continues to sow their seeds of service. Through Sick in Quarters, a disabled-artist led mutual aid project supporting care work in and for communities in en/forced marginalization, thai helps connect isolated SiQ people to resources and education they might otherwise not be able to access.

sensi✧skins is a website built from thai’s “bed-theatre”, an extension of their lived experience in exile. Visitors are presented with a variety of ways to engage in redistribution of disposable income, in exchange for intimacy in the form of witnessing thai’s slow yet sensual transformation in their perpetual chrysalis.

This benefit is a commemoration of forgotten lives lost to eugenicist capitalism, and a commitment to interdependence, because our liberation is intertwined.

Your contributions will go towards thai’s medical and living expenses (including 2 lifesaving yet invasive surgeries and a motorized wheelchair), studio rent (giving them a new possible destination), and meal support for the upcoming year.

Tickets are non-transferrable and non-refundable. Thank you for understanding!