"Immundus," from the Latin meaning filthy, impure, foul; in some cases, even immoral or demonic. Instead of rejecting filth - working to scrub out their pre-manufactured reputation as sex-crazed and violent addicts, hysteric menaces, vectors of contagion, threats to the natural order of things - the figures documented in these works ecstatically embrace their status as other. They insist on disgust, terror, camp, and excess as tools, as combative and transcendent ways of knowing and moving through a world trying to snuff you out. Together, through a cascading series of short video works and performance documentation that build into an afternoon double feature, this program hopes to offer us a way out of a canonical "trans history" and straight into its underside - where unknowable horrors, illicit pleasures and truly revolutionary potentials lie.

XSCN (Xiomara Sebastián Castro Niculescu) is a trans Latina performance artist, writer, and organizer from New York, by way of Ecuador and Romania.