Association of Hysteric Curators: Maya Mackrandilal, Mary Anna Pomonis, Monet Clark, Marjan Vayghan, Michiko Yao & Taryn Lee
Goddesses and Monsters: A Racket of Banshees
Association of Hysteric Curators: Maya Mackrandilal, Mary Anna Pomonis, Monet Clark, Marjan Vayghan, Michiko Yao & Taryn Lee
AHC is a decentralized collective of artists and curators imagining alternative feminist futures through exhibitions, performances, dialogue, and creative action. Each festival day features a shifting constellation of feminist works—participatory rituals, multimedia experiments, and mythic invocations that embody the futures we seek. Drawing on ancestral archetypes and radical imagination, AHC asks: What must we invoke, and what must we release? What truths hide in the monsters we fear—and what futures emerge if we follow their call? These works form a living pantheon, transforming streets into sanctuaries.
Performances:
Friday
4:30 pm Maya Mackrandilal, Ritual for the Future
5:00 pm Mary Anna Pomonis, Pussy Cat Chorus
6:30 pm Michiko Yao, That’s Just How I Express My Love (Jenny series)
6:30 pm Monet Clark, The Creature in the Time of the Narwhal / roaming performance
*Marjan Vayghan on site 4:00pm-7:00pm
Saturday
4:30 pm Maya Mackrandilal, Ritual for the Future
5:00 pm Mary Anna Pomonis, Pussy Cat Chorus
6:30 pm Michiko Yao, That’s Just How I Express My Love (Jenny series)
6:30 pm Monet Clark, The Creature in the Time of the Narwhal / audience participatory ritual
*Marjan Vayghan on site 4:00pm-7:00pm
*Taryn Lee on site 4:00pm-6:00pm
Sunday
4:30 pm Maya Mackrandilal, Ritual for the Future
6:30 pm Monet Clark, The Creature in the Time of the Narwhal / roaming performance
*Marjan Vayghan on site 4:00pm-7:00pm
*Taryn Lee on site 4:00pm-6:00pm
hystericcurators.com
Maya Mackrandilal is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who creates ritual-based performance and visual works that explore history, transformation, and the sacred. Rooted in feminist and decolonial practices, her work reclaims power through embodiment, storytelling, and ancestral connection. Her video-poem Kal/Pani will appear in the Bihar Museum Biennial this fall in Patna, India.
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Monet Clark is an ecofeminist video, photography, and performance artist, a professional animal communicator, and a psychic. She captures her elaborately costumed characters in nature with cameras on tripods. Subverting the male gaze, she explores relationships between misogyny, mysticism, animal sentience, and climate change. She exhibits internationally.
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Taryn Lee is an artist, historian, and educator based on Tongva land. Her work blends installation art with embodied mindfulness practices, exploring themes of vulnerability and transformation. She creates participatory pieces that invite audiences to reflect on these emotional landscapes.
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Mary Anna Pomonis is a Los Angeles-based artist. Pomonis has shown at galleries and institutions across the United States. Pomonis holds degrees from UC San Francisco (Ph.D. Sociology), Columbia University (MA), Courtauld Institute (MA History of Art), and University of the Arts Berlin (Curating).
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Marjan Khoshbakhti Vayghan, born in Tehran, Iran, emigrated to the United States in 1995. she lives between Los Angeles and Tehran. Her practice is informed by this context of movement and flexible citizenship across both geographical and cultural spaces, and the multiple realities these spaces engender. She received her BFA Otis College of Art and Design, and an MA from UCLA.
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Michiko Yao is a multimedia artist who was born and raised in Japan and is now based in Los Angeles. Through her art, she investigates the representation of women in both Japanese and American pop culture. Often incorporating quasi-scientific protocol, her work exposes cultural divergences confronting Asian and Western historical and social stereotypes.