i hope this means it was called!

I have seen a couple of people playing shows in that way but using their own bodies; a collaboration would be fantastic

I’ve also seen some [relatively rare in my experience] kink play that did something similar (no kind of impact) & that was a joy to watch

I am making progress in a not dissimilar direction but it’s going very very slowly

the horse is underestimating me

Yeeeeaaahhhhhhhhh A better way of dealing with not packing enough draaws is to buy some detergent sheets for your sink laundry

Satisfying

Saturday plans

Exquisite

🔥🔥🔥

Nasty, foul people

this is a fantastic idea that I realize takes money and everything else that goes into a print run but it is still Very Nice in the post-physical-ticket age

Overhead photo of a light-finished wooden table upon which rests a cup of coffee - Mexicano Latte - and its saucer. The top of the drink is dusted with chili powder. It is divine.

Reason for Living #287: Mexicano Latte from Sour Duck

what if you are *very* interested

one of the happiest people I know uses a flip phone

A Lecture by Victoria Shen | Fusebox Festival A Lecture by Victoria Shen With an introduction by Hannah Spector, Assistant Professor of Practice of Time & Technology

1/3 AUSTIN: As part of this year’s Fusebox festival, Victoria Shen is giving a talk this Thursday 4/16 from 3-4 PM in the Art Building at UT (Art 1.102), 2301 San Jacinto 78705

Free admission & (unheard of) free parking at the San Jacinto garage (2400 San Jacinto)

If another curly-haired someone has fabulous curls, seems friendly, and the time/place is right I absolutely ask them about their routine

Hampshire Announced It’s Closing. Will Other Small Colleges Follow? A missed enrollment goal and accreditor order in recent months sent worrying signals. But the college’s troubles have been long in the making.

I wrote a quick story on Hampshire College closing for good. Stick around for the usual speculation about whether this means other troubled institutions are doomed.

That Ordinaires album is good

Ooh I thought his name was familiar but didn’t try to remember why

And I didn’t know he’d moved on to visual art! I will have to investigate

everybody knows

Stop what you are doing & read this poem

Victoria Shen (Live at Big Ears Festival) - Essential Tremors Victoria Shen (also known by her performance alias Evicshen) is a San Francisco–based sound artist, experimental music performer, and instrument-maker whose work blends tactile audioworks with viscera...

4/4 If you’re unfamiliar, not in Austin, and your curiosity is rightly piqued, you’re in luck because @leegee.bsky.social visited with Victoria Shen in 2025 at Big Ears as part of Essential Tremors’ series of interviews at the festival (@essentialpod.bsky.social):

Mark Flood + Evicshen | Fusebox Festival A solo exhibition featuring new work by Houston-based visual provocateur Mark Flood and a performance by San Francisco sound artist Victoria Shen (A.K.A. Evicsh

3/4 Victoria Shen has two performances on Saturday 4/18 at Co-Lab Projects (5419 Glissman 78702)

In this lecture, Victoria Shen (A.K.A. Evicshen) will share her experience as a sound artist, experimental music performer, and instrument-maker. Shen's sound practice is concerned with the spatiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Her personal identity, her body, is the space her work utilizes to restructure sonic meaning. In her live performances, she proposes an exploration between meaning and non-meaning through the physical activation of noise tropes-the body as both subject and instrument.

"My practice treats sound as a material force; something that pushes, scrapes, resists, and accumulates, rather than an abstract signal. Raised by a Cambodian refugee mother whose life was shaped by displacement and improvisation, I approach making through resourcefulness and embodied problem-solving. Scarcity, friction, and adaptation are not only biographical conditions but compositional principles.

Originally trained in visual art and art history, I moved toward electroacoustic music and expanded turntablism while teaching myself circuit design and electronics. I build my own instruments, often attaching them directly to my body or designing them as prosthetic extensions, so that performance becomes a negotiation between flesh, gesture, and machine. My work explores tensions between control and chaos, virtuosity and collapse, intimacy and amplification. By foregrounding physical labor and instability, I challenge conventions of live musical consumption and destabilize assumptions about what constitutes an instrument.

My recent and ongoing development focuses on deepening the integration of body and technology, particularly through analog systems. I am interested in corporeal circuitry: magnetic fields interacting with skin, embedded electronics, ferric materials, and wearable or tattooed audio media that collapse distinctions between organism and device. Moving forward, I aim to expand this research into more immersive, site-responsive works and collaborative formats, creating systems where the body becomes both archive and transmitter; simultaneously vulnerable, conductive, and generative."

2/4 Background on Victoria Shen from the Fusebox website linked above:

A Lecture by Victoria Shen | Fusebox Festival A Lecture by Victoria Shen With an introduction by Hannah Spector, Assistant Professor of Practice of Time & Technology

1/3 AUSTIN: As part of this year’s Fusebox festival, Victoria Shen is giving a talk this Thursday 4/16 from 3-4 PM in the Art Building at UT (Art 1.102), 2301 San Jacinto 78705

Free admission & (unheard of) free parking at the San Jacinto garage (2400 San Jacinto)

This is WILD and distressing

the opening lines of a very brief, very bloody horror story

The only kind of paperclip that would dare to have so much sass has to be rustproof!

I’m not falling for his alligator tears a second time!

it’s past time to bring this look back