Rotten Sun is an performance project by Jester Bulnes, Jazmin Jazzy Romero, Cielo Saucedo, and Jesus Gallegos Yela, developed through Saucedo’s residency at Coaxial Arts Foundation. The residency functions less as a site of production and closer to a framework for ensemble formation. We used the space as a provisional studio where performance, video, and sound act as interdependent instruments of perception.

In culmination of the one week residency, the ensemble staged a one night performance that considers place as self. The work extends Coaxial’s architecture into a feedback system in which performers refract into multiples using audio-visual techniques, machine vision, and performance.  Fantasies of sanctuary cities and surveillance economies entwine with the psychic terrains of terror, dressing oneself, and inheritance. Within this live environment, subjectivity and images circulate, are recorded, redoubled, and undone. The work emerges from a shared inquiry into how bodies move through architectures shaped by visibility and control.  Set against the dense circuitry of Downtown Los Angeles, its cameras, patrols, and thresholds. Rotten Sun operates as a compositional study.  Its an experiment in how perception is organized,  how to look back at technologies, and how queerness and intimacy persists under capture.