Planet/Tear: Early Warning Systems is a collaborative performance curated by Char Jére centered on sound, technology, objects, and signal. The project imagines a world in which objects begin to sense and communicate before humans recognize what is happening.

Bringing together artists across disciplines, the work unfolds as a shifting environment of unstable systems, where sound is not simply performed but transmitted, obstructed, and transformed. Signals emerge, overlap, and dissolve, forming a temporary network that resists fixed structure or control.

Inspired by boundary-pushing collaborations—including Butch Morris and David Hammons, Camille Billops and James Hatch, and Robert Rauschenberg with Jim McGee—the project treats performance as a living system shaped through collective action. Across these lineages, collaboration becomes a method for pushing against the boundaries of form, authorship, and medium.

Planet/Tear refers both to the planet and to rupture—environmental, social, technological, and emotional. Rooted in a belief in animism as an extension of intuition, the piece asks what early warning systems already surround us, and what might become possible if we learned how to listen.

Sculpture by:

Yehwan Song
pap souleye fall
Sonia Rosa Kahn
Michael Candy
Maggie Boyd
Séan
Marcus Jahmal
Liz Zito
Taezoo Park
Cameron VH

Music by:

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.

Working in a range of disciplines, spanning sound, installation, sculpture, painting, video, and film, Char Jeré has an artistic vision rooted in a philosophy they have coined Afro-fractalism, a term that builds on the foundations of Afrofuturism. Within this framework, time is conceived as nonlinear and multidimensional, a conduit that connects the past, present, and future through intergenerational communication with ancestors. Jeré’s work investigates fractures and connections within a Black diasporic history along with the possibilities for reclaiming and reshaping narratives around race and technology.

Yehwan Song is a Korean-born, New York–based artist whose work approaches the web as an environment shaped by historical, political, and economic forces—an infrastructure structured around calculation, state surveillance, and the profit motives of governments and corporations. Rather than treating the internet as a neutral or open space, Yehwan examines how its interfaces, protocols, and terminology obscure systems of control and extraction. Yehwan is particularly attentive to the differences between Western internet models—often framed through ideals of openness and individual freedom—and East Asian internet ecosystems, where state governance, platform monopolies, and social regulation are more directly embedded in everyday use.

Pap Souleye Fall is a Senegalese American artist and a recent graduate of the Yale School of Art. Their multidisciplinary output spans the realms of video, performance, comic book art, and cosplay.

Sonia Rosa Kahn is a U.S. based artist whose interdisciplinary practice combines moving image, printmaking and installation. Her work examines the morphology of photographic images and their social and material lifespans. Through processes such as erosion, oxidation, and chemical development, her alchemical interventions in both film and printed matter test the stability and circulation of pictures and narratives through time.

Michael Candy is an international artist known for kinetic sculptures, interactive installations, and video works that challenge the socio-political implications of contemporary technology. His practice navigates shifting landscapes of automation, mythology, and agency, constructing engineered phenomena that reconfigure space and perception.

Maggie Boyd is a canadian living in NYC while making clay things and drawings and sculptures. Maggie also loves to teach classes about ceramics and how she approaches drawing on and with clay. On top of having a studio practice, teaching, raising some fun kids, and trying to stay on top of the laundry, Maggie is also the 2026 artist in residence for LAND gallery in Brooklyn, which is a gallery and studio for adults with developmental disabilities. You want to have your mind blown? go look at the work being made there. Maggie also wrote a book that will be coming out in fall of 2026 through Sacred Bones called HOW TO MAKE A POT, which is mostly about what the title suggests but also about other stuff like our place in the non-order of things and what it means when we make something, anything at all. Maggie love sworking with clay. Maggie loves helping other people do the same thing.

Séan is a NYC based, conceptual artist from New Orleans, LA whose work engages themes of rebellion, religion, and ritual within the embodied histories of the American South. Working across textile, collage, and assemblage, she constructs layered compositions from fragments, accoutrements, and found materials that examine systems of protection and sanctification. Guided by a punk-informed aesthetic of improvisation, rupture, and accumulation, her practice operates as both confrontation and revival, probing the tensions between reverence and subversion. SÉAN received an MFA from Columbia University in 2024 and a Bachelor of Architecture from Louisiana State University in 2020.

Marcus Jahmal is a Brroklyn-based artist whose works move fluidly between genres spanning architectural interiors and still life, as well as landscape and portraiture. Developing his compositions directly upon the surface of each canvas, Jahmal coaxes imaginary, yet uncannily familiar, scenes to life, exploring themes encompassing dreams and folkloric Americana, and the contemporary realities of gentrification and city dwelling.

Liz Zito‘s multimedia works draw on pulp film posters and early cinema, staging personal narratives that reclaim sexuality through performance and storytelling.

Taezoo Park is a Korean-born, New York–based artist and digitologist whose practice began in 2008 with the observation of abandoned CRT televisions on the streets of New York. This experience became more than a simple encounter: it was a phenomenological and existential engagement with technology as a responsive entity situated within its context and conditions. Park combines obsolete and transitional technologies with contemporary computational systems to explore emergence and continuous transformation. His long-running series, Digital Being, reflects Gilles Deleuze’s concepts of processual existence and ongoing becoming, and is constantly reconfigured through interactions between audience, environment, and technology. Viewers’ movements, breath, and engagement directly shape the behavior of these entities, making the relationship between audience and work an integral part of the experience.

Braxton from the hood to the woods and everywhere in between, Smith Taylor’s music reflects his personal exposure to an array of ever changing environments. His potent guitar playing recalls the deep roots of blues and jazz in both tone and technique while intertwining a soulful feel with post punk inspired repetitive melodies.

C. Spencer Yeh is recognized for interdisciplinary activities as an artist, improviser, and composer, and for his music project Burning Star Core. Since 2020, Yeh has performed for The Kitchen NYC, Experimental Intermedia NYC, The Renaissance Society with ESS Chicago, the Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project, Casa del Lago UNAM MX with Jacob Wick and Bonnie Jones, Jazz em Agosto Lisbon PT with Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain, Blank Forms with Raven Chacon and Che Chen, and both solo and with Luke Stewart/Leila Bordreuil’s Feedback Ensemble for Roulette NYC. He presented new video works and performances for both ISSUE Project Room NYC, and the Bemis Center Omaha NE. Yeh also exhibited with Anthology Film Archives, Loong Mah NYC, Bánh Mì Verlag online, 5th Floor/Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, and participated in Nick Klein’s “Bring the Flowers to the Theatre” at Sara’s NYC. In 2021 he organized a karaoke event for Creative Time and Rashid Johnson’s “Red Stage” NYC project, and started a key music duo with Kwami Winfield that has performed at many venues and events including ISSUE Project Room and Ende Tymes Festival. In 2019, Yeh received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award.

Brandon E. Black abolitionist sounds fueled by a rotation of political noise, throat poetics and visual/physical wreckage as instruments. Invested in establishing rituals, sounds and tools of survivance amidst the crumbling empire that is America

Rena Anakwe is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, poet and healer using sound, visuals, and scent to explore where and how traditional healing practices, spirituality, and performance can connect and fracture. Her deeper inquiry is how reconnecting to nature can help us understand and mend these fractures, not only for ourselves but also in relation to one another. She is based in Brooklyn, New York by way of Nigeria and Canada.