LOS ANGELES – Multi-dimensional director, artist and technomancer Jennifer Juniper Stratford has introduced her latest enterprise FLOW: The Future Ladies of Wrestling – produced by Stratford’s self-established Telefantasy Studios, a mutant movie studio that produces cult television programs, art installations, live shows and music videos.
Stratford has built an astronomical portfolio of work exhibited, broadcast, and screened internationally that includes exhibitions at the MoCA, Getty Museum, The Hammer Museum, The Palais De Tokyo Paris, amongst many more.
FLOW: The Future Ladies of Wrestling is a no-holds-barred multimedia extravaganza created by Stratford in which the wildest interspecies wrestlers battle for the title of Ultimate Multiversal Warrior.
On July 4th, FLOW invaded the Moonlight Rollerway in Los Angeles for a patriotic afternoon of wrestle mania antics as part of ‘Dirty Looks: On Location’, a month-long film and performance festival activating LA’s queer history curated by Women’s Center for Creative Work.
Although there have only been a handful of FLOW shows, including one at Rupaul’s Drag Con in Los Angeles this past year, people have expressed their love for its subversive vibe.
Stratford shared: “I knew the shows would be fun, but I never expected the crowd participation to be so high level. At our second show, more people showed up than could fit inside the venue. Some fans were outside crying because they couldn’t get in.”
Her next upcoming event is a large-scale video installation for a concert featuring legendary synthesizer musician Suzanne Ciani on Friday, August 3rd.
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Jennifer Juniper (J.J.) Stratford is a director and video artist seeking otherworldly representation through the use of outmoded communication technologies to create new and exciting visual realms.
In 2004, Stratford created Telefantasy Studios to create mind-melting mutant video and television experiences. Scavenging the ruins of the post-digital-apocalypse, she hunts down analog broadcast equipment cast off from Hollywood studios.
The treasured hardware is then redeployed to create innovative and original new programming, often in alliance with some of the multiverse’s brightest stars to create cult classic public access programs, highly sought-after sim-sense chips, video experiments and music videos which invites audiences to turn on, jack in, and rock out.
J.J.’s work has been exhibited, broadcast, and screened internationally at MoCA Geffen Contemporary, The Getty, Cinemarfa, CPH:DOX, The Museum of the Moving Image, Cinefamily, Storefront for Art & Architecture, BAM Cinématek, and on public access stations across the United States, as well as various exhibitions in Cyberspace.
