The Only Thing That Still Floats Is Time

Taemin Eum
Allison Hummel
Rachel Elizabeth Jones
Grant LoParo
Robben Muñoz

A range of live performances and media works turn their focus to the eternal, invisible guest in the room. Time is explored in all its states: degradation, resurgence, intractability. The flutter of a GIF, the fade out. The deterioration of ancient teachings as we slide toward a post-natural world. The Only Thing That Still Floats Is Time approaches the subject with collaborative energy, aware that when time leaves, it takes the party with it. —Allison Hummel

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All photos by Robben Muñoz.

Taemin Eum (b. 1992, Suncheon, S. Korea) is a multimedia artist based in Los Angeles, CA. With a degree in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, Eum’s work examines the effects of digital reproduction and the consequent loss of quality. @ooeyesee

Allison Hummel is a poet based in Los Angeles. Heat And The Resins is her most recent chapbook. Recent works can be found in Red Door Magazine, Annulet: A Journal of Poetics and Bloodletter. allis0nhummel.wordpress.com

Rachel Elizabeth Jones is an artist and writer who grew up in Vermont and lives in Los Angeles. As an artist, she is drawn to folk and vernacular modes and uses sculpture, installation, and video to engage with concepts of paradise, longing, and fantasy under capitalism, as well as complex tensions between urban and rural outlooks. rachelelizabethjones.com / @ratbabyjones

Janet Lee was born and raised in Los Angeles where she currently lives and works despite multiple attempts to expatriate from the mire of America. Her interests lie in reconciling the disparate and dissonant through various modes of translation. She received her BA from UC Berkeley in the History of Art with a focus on pre-Greco-Roman archaeology. 

Grant LoParo is a Los Angeles based Musician and Visual Artist who was born in the buzzy, forest greens of North Carolina. Grant’s work focuses mostly on exploring the music making and recording process as a form of channeling. He has self released music under many monikers including: Heaven’s Gate Club, Gerry Savaatch & Dar Malcum, Ram Deb (or Deb Ra) and most recently Caller Waiting. These projects span the gap between explorative songwriting to visual ambience—all with a magickal, experimental bent. While his approach is often changing, chance and improvisation are consistently used in his form of trance induced songwriting and melody fusion. Believing in the ability of music to open doors to the otherworldly departments around us, Grant captures the voices, ideas, and states of being that exist in our holographic reality—those which are only accessible through the immaterial world of sound. There’s a crack in the door and there’s a voice on the other end of the phone. Grant believes that melody is a form of truth that offers us an escape from the material world, the plane of existence which binds and blunts our true selves. Our bodies and world are ever changing, decaying around us, while melody offers a solid anchor. A focal point for being. Grant marches ever forth towards the Mirror Note at the center of it all, hoping to find escape from within and offering us a trail of breadcrumbs. All the while making paranormal music for paranormal people. bandcamp.com/grant8

Robben Muñoz (b. 1990, San Diego, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles. Muñoz makes work about fragmented experiences, projection, and the artificial. He received his BA from Oberlin College where he studied Art History and Cinema. robbenmunoz.com / @robben_munoz