Co-presented by Gray Area in conjunction with the 2025 Gray Area Festival

 
 

In PET, Swedish artist Arvida Byström explores the emotional structures and dynamics of AI companionship through a cast of anthropomorphized digital avatars—animal-coded, face-swapped, and trained on male desire.

 
 
 

Image Credit: PET, Arvida Bystom, 2025

 
 

UPCOMING EVENT

 
 

RECENT PUBLICATION

 

SURROGATE
By Lauren Lee McCarthy

187 pages, 8”x 5”, full color, stitch bound paperback

Book Release and Performance: Sunday, Sept. 15th, 7pm in conjunction with Lauren’s performance at
The 2024 Gray Area Festival
2665 Mission Street @ 23rd
Buy the book: HERE!

Surrogate is an artist book, based on a pregnancy journal, which charts the progress of a performance project over the course of fifty-two weeks. Lauren Lee McCarthy offers her body to carry someone else’s baby while they monitor and control her with an app. For nine months they decide what she eats, what she does, what thoughts she meditates on — holding complete control over the body in which their baby is growing. As Roe v. Wade is overturned and gene editing opens entirely new reproductive futures, this project asks: How much control should we have over a birthing person’s body, and over a life before it begins?

 

RECENT EVENTS

 

May There Be Light

A two-part workshop on designing and planning large scale projection art, presented by artist Christy Chan in conjunction with ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN.

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This is Doug Hall

A conversation with artist Doug Hall about his recently published memoir, presented in conjunction with ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN.

Art and Polictics

A panel discussion with Nicólas González-Medina and Kal Spelletich on their experiences as artist-activists throughout their careers and in the contemporary moment.

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In Conversation: Nic[o] Brierre Aziz

Haitian-New Orleanian interdisciplinary artist and curator Nic[o] Brierre Aziz discusses his recent works in conjunction with ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN.

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In Conversation: Alicia Escott with Marthine Satris

Alicia Escott and Marthine Satris (Associate Publisher, Heyday) discuss Escott’s solo show METABOLIC RIFTS: TOUCH MEMORY, a community sourced video installation bridging the non/human divide.

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Seed: Workshop and Walking Tour of Cracks in SoMa’s Sidewalks⁠

A walking tour, led by artist Alicia Escott, to observe the way plants break through the concrete, thinking of this growth as a metaphor, and a conversation inviting community members to explore their own cultivation of soft power that can disrupt the seemingly impenetrable confines of man-made spaces.⁠

 
 
 
 

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