PHOSPHOR PROJECT SPACE

In this two person show by Leavitt and Cassel, the artists work together in questioning authority over autonomy and power structures that harm the body. While Leavitt’s work depends on her body for the process of her practice, she removes it by documenting without images, opening up a space for the invisible and unknown to exist. Meanwhile, Cassel’s work examines radicalized autonomy and femininity in virtual and physical spaces through audiovisual narratives and performance of a preconceived future. 

Summer Jade Leavitt is an artist and writer trying to figure out what a queer future looks like. Thinking about the liminal, the criminal, the invisible, her work confronts the institutional and cultural invalidation of her feminine voice, body, and desire. Through text, photo, artifact, and video, she approaches everyday life as a site of performance, documenting gestures large and small to archive and historicize them. Looking at pop culture, history, music videos, film, and theory, she aims to confuse lineages and authenticity. Her performative existence is a sci-fi documentary: all real, all fake. She is seeking to locate origins of trauma and excavate them from the body, creating space for all that has been lost, all that is yet to come. Her work is authoring her own representation, deconstructing language and perceptions of reality, imagining possible bodies. 

Adrienne Cassel aka L I L I T H is an audiovisual interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of digital 3D art, tech, sound, and performance. L I L I T H ’s work explores radicalized autonomy in virtual domains and creating spaces that bring to light the politicization, exploitation, and modification of the body. Through audiovisual performances and digital narratives, she examines corporeality and dissociation in physical and non-physical spaces. Her work questions the treatment of embodiment in emerging technologies through the physicality and visceral nature of being displaced into another body. L I L I T H explores femininity and queerness as complex and collaborative power systems. By the power of radical reclamation, L I L I T H recreates a space where liberated femininity and queer bodies can exist with agency.