Colin Self // Surgery Season

!!! $30 non-card payment at the door OR generous angel tier card payment only day of show !!! Reality got you down? Join us in encountering the Truth: another world is possible. We’ll meet you at the threshold between the sacred and the profane, joy and sorrow, as we venture into the queering of our futures. A deeply loving world built by tricksters, fairies, and their friends. Experience a titillating, binary-crushing evening of experimental music, puppets, dance, and sundry performances. Expect the unexpected. Your courageous curiosity is thoroughly encouraged. Andy Arts Center. August 8. Doors at 7. Be there to experience it all. Welcoming Colin Self & Surgery Season for the last stop on their Midwest Tour! With local special guests: Tea Sankara & Friends delia Lindsay McCaw of Flying Cardboard Theater Sound supervision graciously provided by A Sound Place. NOTE: if cost is at all a barrier, DM @sumptuous_d (or any of the artists) on instagram or email criticalconnection@proton.me for a discount ticket link - no questions asked. Colin Self is an artist, composer, and puppeteer based in New York and Berlin. They create music, performances, and new systems for interfacing with the human spirit, across a spectrum between the living and deceased. As many of their practices revolve around the temporary assembly of communities, their work envelops collaborative and dialogical experiments into play. Self has been running XOIR since 2013, an alternative modality of group singing, and co-founded a performance school in 2023 with their collaborator Monica Mirabile. Surgery Season is the experimental pop project of trans artist Wolf Black and veteran Portland diy drummer Jamie Brito, aka Papi Jalapeño. Together, Wolf and Jamie’s musical chemistry is palpable. Blending elements of club music, emo rock, and shoegaze, Surgery Season disregards genre conventions to create unique sonic worlds. Exploding onto the scene in late 2023 with a renegade debut performance, they perform regularly in Portland, and recently released their debut single, “Medford,” to local acclaim.