bennington college, candidate for b.a. september 2017 – december 2018
• voluminous arts presents: SPIRIT TIME with rat porridge & mercury symbol, resident performer & DJ, mutant Radio, tbilisi, georgia march 2025 – july 2025
• “bloom how you must, wild until we are free,” center for artistic research & alliances (CARA) in partnership with voluminous arts & the octavia project, artist-in-residence, new york, ny july 2023 – september 2023
• artist-in-residence, chaos computer, new York, ny december 2022 – july 2023
Generative Works: Commissions, Performances & Tours • Three Divas One Deck: with Psicóputa, Perrito Maldito & ‘local dj,’ live DJ set, Jade Bar, New York, NY • Mercury Symbol, Genderzbow, solo noise performance, Hart Bar, New York, NY • Bodyvision West w/ Gavilán Rayna Russom & ‘local dj,’ live DJ set, The Lot Radio, New York, NY • Diva Down: Divas TS Poetry Series x Down, Adonis Huff, solo spoken word/poetry performance, The End, New York, NY • Mercury Symbol, solo noise performance, Fuck the Fourth Fest, Mayday Space, New York, NY • Queer Trash Presents: Mercury Symbol, The Ghost, The Jew’O, Webb Crawford, Max Hamel Duo, solo noise performance, The P.I.T, New York, NY • Mercury Symbol, solo noise performance, MAY DAY: Center For Psychic Technology & Voluminous Arts present: Celebrating Gavilán Rayna Russom’s 50th Birthday, Trans-Pecos, New York, NY • Black Power Electronics: featuring Mercury Symbol, SCRAAATCH, Bookworms, Lester St. Louis, Kwami Winfield, DOGHATESNOISE, & more, solo noise performance, Hart Bar, New York, NY February 2025 November 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 May 2024 May 2024 March 2024 • Mercury Symbol, FuckLuv Fest, solo noise performance, OSB Space, Richmond, VA February 2024 • Center For Psychic Technology Presents: Mercury Symbol, Tamio Shiraishi, Bongowattz, Kwami Winfield, & more, solo noise performance, The Vale of Cashmere, New York, NY October 2023 • Chaos Computer Presents: Mercury Symbol, Bookworms, Saturn Lavender, Bill Nace, KYRUH, Cube & More, Chaos Computer, New York, NY June 2023 • Queer Trash Presents: Mercury Symbol, Richard Ramirez, Thin Mountain + Prayer Rope, & The New York Review of Cocksucking, Chaos Computer, New York, NY May 2023 • Eric Andre’s 40th Birthday Party (Noise Room) with Mercury Symbol, Child Abuse, New York Review of Cocksucking, Unholy Altar & more, Knockdown Center, New York, NY April 2023 • dream pit #3 with Mercury Symbol, Dreamcrusher, and St. Sol, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA January 2023 • NYC Noise presents: Mercury Symbol, Evicshen, Polly Urethane, nullobite., Centennial Gardens, & Jadelain, performer & curator, co-produced with Jessica Hallock, Ridgewood Presbyterian Church, New York, NY October 2022 • Mercury Symbol, Performer, Big Noise Candy Mountain, Fairview, WV July 2022 • Touring in a Bass Boosted Vehicle, U.S. tour with Kwami Winfield & Sim Hafferty July 2022 • U.S. Northeastern Tour with ANNIHIL June 2022 • Mercury Symbol, Ende Tymes 12, Performer, Trans-Pecos, New York, NY April 2022 • Center For Psychic Technology Presents: Mercury Symbol, Speaker Music, Sour Spirit, Guido, & Dreamcrusher, Trans Pecos, New York, NY February 2022 • Mercury Symbol, Lustsickpuppy, E L U C I D, Dreamcrusher, RugiRugz, Market Hotel, New York, NY February 2022 Self-Produced Releases • VANITY c30, forthcoming album, Producer & Composer • Judge Schreber, Single, Producer & composer • “the word of the day is malingering,” Methane Sea (Compilation), Angeltribe XTL September 2025 May 2024 March 2023 • “Apologies to all the People in Lebanon,” producer, People of Eternity: A BDS Mixtape Vol.1 (Compilation), Amplify Palestine March 2023 • “fuck you and your money,” producer, self-titled single, self-released June 2020 Collaborative Performances • Goddess Mommy Diva Queen, performer in collaboration with XSCN, Leviticus & Lucy York, Undisclosed Location, Cold Spring Hollow, MA • Exit Seraphim: New Revelation, Fuck the Fourth Fest, Performer in collaboration with Rat Porridge, Anka Racynska, Kwami Winfield & Lucy York, O’Brian’s Pub, Boston, MA • Harlequin, Spasm Festival, live noise & movement performance in collaboration with Jelani Best, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA • Exit Seraphim, Evil Pride, Performer in collaboration with Lucy York, TV Eye, New York, NY • MERCILESS ACCELERATING RYTHYMS VOL. 2: THIS IMPRESSIVE TERROR I MUST BE, KINKOUT, Performer in collaboration with XSCN, Leviticus, & Lucy York, TV Eye, New York, NY • The Icon & The Axe, Dada x Dada: a Night of Anti-Art & Poetry, noise & spoken word performance in collaboration with Samantha Hinds, Dada Bar, New York, NY • Exit Seraphim, performer in collaboration with Lucy York, The Buoyant Heart, Burlington, VT • Harlequin, SFX Festival, live noise & movement performance in collaboration with Jelani Best, The Wild Project, New York, NY • MERCILESS ACCELERATING RYTHYMS, Performer in collaboration with XSCN, Leviticus, & Lucy York, Brown University, Providence, RI • Harlequin, live noise & movement performance in collaboration with Jelani Best, The Living Gallery, New York, NY • Exit Seraphim, Ende Tymes 14, Performer in collaboration with Lucy York, TV Eye, New York, NY • Cooler Night #5 featuring Mercury Symbol, Anka Racynska, Rat Porridge, Omari Love, Ris Gumpert, Yvonne LeBien, Gavilán Rayna Russom, performer in collaboration with Anka Racynska & Rat Porridge, CARA, New York, NY July 2025 July 2025 June 2025 June 2025 June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 January 2025 December 2024 April 2024 April 2024 August 2024 • Cooler Night #2 featuring Lucy York, Sodomahigomorra, & Maya Berman, performer in collaboration with Lucy York, co-curated with Yvonne LeBien, CARA, New York, NY July 2023 • Boys Against The State (B.A.T.S.) presents: Ken Doll Takeover featuring Mercury Symbol x ANNIHIL Tati au Miel, Sodomahigomorra, Skullfucker, TEAR, & More, performer & co-curator, Chaos Computer, New York, NY June 2023 • Sunk Heaven Tour Kickoff: with Sunk Heaven, ANNIHIL x Mercury Symbol (B.A.T.S.), Mirrored Fatality, Tim Dahl & Azumi Oe, Chaos Computer, New York, NY May 2023 • Camp Rock, Ende Tymes 13. Performer in collaboration with Kwami Winfield, Trans-Pecos, New York, NY April 2023 • B.A.T.S. Presents a Benefit for Uganda LGBTQ Emergency Fund: featuring Bookworms, Axine M, Deflector, Lucy York, Saturn Lavender, Chaos Computer, New York, NY April 2023 Collaborative Releases • Mercury Symbol + Neuter c30, produced in collaboration with Riley S., Mercury Symbol + Neuter, self-released December 2023 • “Blissed (This Bliss Mercury Symbol Remix),” produced in collaboration with Axine M, USER Remixes, independently released by Axine M June 2023 Affiliations/Memberships • Local Community Advisory Committee Member, Voluminous Arts, New York, NY January 2024 - present • Organizing Collective Member, Chaos Computer, New York, NY June 2022 - February 2024 Exhibitions • “Traces: Sonic & Material,” featuring Gavilán Rayna Russom, Rat Porridge, Omari Love, Yvonne LeBien, Ris Gumpert, Mercury Symbol, & Anka Raczynska, CARA in partnership with Voluminous Arts & The Octavia Project, New York, NY September 2023 Public Appearances & Press • Curating Sound Series Panel, with Adonis Huff (Mercury Symbol), SJ Norman & Gavilán Rayna Russom, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY • “Monday Night Tributes to One of Manhattan’s Most Offbeat Clubs,” Jesse Dorris, Surface Mag April 2024 July 2023 • “Gavilán Rayna Russom and Sanna Almajedi to curate Amplify Palestine compilation,” Raphael Helfand, The Fader March 2023 • “On Location: Ende Tymes 12: Night One,” Vanessa Ague, The Wire, issue 261, pg 76 July 2022