Dentaxuvia
Huntrezz Janos and Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou
February 2, 2025 | Doors at 3:00, Performance at 3:30
In Person Event
Free Admission
UCR ARTS
Event Info
Through a cyber-feminist tale of dreams, post-apocalyptic cities, and queer love, DENTAXUVIA – a Mixed Reality Performance – follows the supernatural journey of a duo and their avatars into the quantum and vast depths of the infinite potential of the future. The performance fuses the unique artistic visions of Huntrezz Janos and Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, utilising technology, sculpture, and poetry to conjure a fragmented futuristic scene of cyberpunk insurgents. In this sci-fi explosion of visuals, the tangible meets the intangible as Huntrezz and Antigoni perform in wearable sculptures and as avatars in their virtual world. The result is an act of queer resistance that sheds their old skins and identities, empowering them to reclaim agency in the face of oppressive regimes and igniting belief that anyone can do the same.
This is the the second of a two-part series presented in partnership with Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World at UC Riverside and Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film at LACMA.
About the artists:
Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou (b. 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist from Athens, Greece based in Los Angeles, California. Their work spans video, installation, performance, and sculpture, forming immersive, interactive, and cinematic environments. Their world-body-building practice centers on themes of softness, deviance, kinship, and affect as resistance tools for a queer transfeminist universe. Antigoni is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Media Arts and Practice at USC School of Cinematic Arts. They also hold an MFA in Media Arts from UCLA , and a BFA in Sculpture from the Athens School of Fine Arts in Greece. They have received numerous scholarships and awards, including from the Fulbright Foundation, the Onassis Foundation, and the ARTWORKS Fellowship from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Their work has been exhibited at prestigious venues and showcased at festivals such as the Arnolfini Center of Contemporary Arts in Bristol (Solo Show), Honor Fraser Gallery in L.A., REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney CalArts, Hebbel Am Ufer in Berlin, WICKED Queer Film Festival, Thessaloniki TIFF, Wrightwood 651, Athens Biennale, Berlin Biennale, Thessaloniki Biennale, and the National Opera of Greece, among others. They have collaborated and worked with notable artists such as William Pope.L (document 14), Annie Sprinkle (document 14), Annea Lockwood and La Pocha Nostra.
Huntrezz Benjamin Janos Hunter is as much herself as she is the information being relayed to you now through this sequence of symbols. Born to Hungarian architect Szabó Gyöngyi and metal icon Scoonie Gee Hunter in Los Angeles, CA, Huntrezz is a light-speed organism determined to reach a distant Antarctic destiny by way of a circuitous path of digital synthesis involving animated video/game art, 3D printed armor, Augmented Reality, sustainable architecture, and rhyme performance along with a laundry list of other, increasingly esoteric practices. Janos emerges from her various disguises to present afro-futurist media designed to delight, confound, and confront those of us entangled in this epoch. She has showcased her work across platforms such as Redcat, Honor Fraser Gallery, Tate Museum, The Modern, MoMA, Adult Swim, Postmaster’s Gallery, Vellum LA, Transfer Gallery, The Athens Biennale, LACMA, Photographer’s Gallery, Torrance Art Museum, and Onassis ONX. She has a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts and an MS from the University of Southern California.