A special performance of DENTAXUVIA at Onassis ONX with Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou and Huntrezz Janos at 6PM on Monday, October 28th!

WHAT: DENTAXUVIA @ Onassis ONX WHEN: 6-8PM, Monday, October 28th WHERE: Onassis ONX - 645 5th Avemue, Lower Level, New York, NY 10022

Onassis ONX will host DENTAXUVIA, a performative playthrough of the first Chapter of their new virtual game, Dentaxuvia: Corporeal Conversations, from ONX Members Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou and Huntrezz Janos. The game builds upon the duo's XR performance, which premiered at REDCAT Disney CalArts Theater in Los Angeles in 2023. In this night of performance and play, the artists will guide and discuss the project’s many features with both the audience and Kelani Nichole of Transfer Gallery. Come participate in the transcorporeal exploration!

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ABOUT DENTAXUVIA:

In DENTAXUVIA Chapter 1: Corporeal Conversations, the player is transported into virtual embodiments of the artists, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou and Huntrezz Janos trapped in a post-apocalyptic landscape. How did we get here? Which are our real bodies? What is happening to the boundaries of our physical, virtual, mental, and spiritual realities? How can we escape this dystopia? These questions invite players into complex dialogues about subjectivity and embodiment in a world where traditional boundaries have been blurred or dissolved. Starting with more questions than answers, players encounter numerous intelligences that occupy this trans-corporeal wasteland. Fires that learn as they burn, hypercute-comrade cockroaches who yearn for affection and know the deepest secrets of the landscape, and a multitude of alternate selves from different dimensions- like a little “alien” Antigoni, and a Huntrezz-Butterfly (among many others!) who are all there to help you explore the space, and maybe even help you escape it, through interspecies collaboration, and the power of queer love.

Merging performance, XR technologies, video game design, and queer ecologies, the project embraces non-linear and fluid notions of subjectivity, embodiment, time, and co-existence. The concept of elemental materiality is central to the work, moving beyond human-centered knowledge to explore the wisdom and agency of the elements themselves who share the secrets of the world. By blending the physical and digital, human and non-human, past and future, Dentaxuvia offers a speculative space for reimagining how we live, love, and survive in a post-apocalyptic times.. Through play and performance, it encourages us to rethink the boundaries of ourselves, opening up new possibilities for queer futurity and interspecies collective survival.

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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 experimental, immersive, interactive, and cinematic environments. Their world-body-building practice centers on themes of softness, deviance, kinship, affect and community building, creating radically fluffy hubs for unruly presents and hope-punk futures. 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 School of the Arts and Architecture, 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 internationally in platforms such as 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, 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 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 holds a BFA in experimental animation from California Institute of the Arts (2018) and an MS from the University of Southern California (2024).

TRANSFER is an experimental gallery that explores simulation and expanded practice. Founded by Kelani Nichole in 2013, TRANSFER's mission is to support artists examining the social, cultural and political implications of emerging technology in their work.