when your matter goes black, rejoice

Saturday November 21 | doors at 7:30pm | performance at 8:00pm

$20 ADVANCE tickets | $25 DAY OF SHOW | $10 STUDENT tickets with ID | always pay what you can

when your matter goes black, rejoice is a kinetic-audiovisual meditation on decomposition, fragility, and rebirth. An exploration of the boundary between decay and endurance through discarded matter, handmade machines, and DIY electronics.

This work is part of a lifelong meditation on material instability, precarious systems, and the expressive possibilities of the imperfect, the failed, and the unstable. Through discarded matter, handmade machines, and DIY electronics, Guerrero explores decomposition, fragility, and rebirth, focusing on the vital boundary between decay and endurance. Kinetic mechanisms, sound, light, and image bring these elements into a continuously changing audiovisual environment. The residency will culminate in a performance-installation in which audiences encounter a fragile ecosystem of moving objects, resonances, textures, and light. Rather than presenting a fixed composition, the work unfolds through transformation, contingency, and the possibility of new forms emerging through intuition and decay.

Homero Guerrero

Homero Guerrero (Veracruz, 1990) is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, and researcher. His practice moves across sound art, sculpture, image, and movement through installations, machines, and audiovisual devices that explore instability and the expressive possibilities of matter. He holds a degree in Composition from the Escuela Superior de Música and an MFA in Visual Arts from UNAM, both with honors, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Music–Music Technology at UNAM. He has twice been a recipient of the Jóvenes Creadores grant (2014–2015 and 2023–2024). His work has been presented at venues and programs including 48 Stunden Neukölln in Berlin, Colegio de San Ildefonso, Centro de Cultura Digital, MUTEK Digi-Lab, Muestra Nacional de Jóvenes Creadores, MUAC, and Centro Nacional de las Artes, as well as independent and institutional theater venues. In 2025, he received the HONOR Talents Award for Excellence in Art and Technology for "bellezas decadentes".