NOW 2026
Brenda Barrios, Cody Perkins / Algorythm.Code, SUUVI
World Premiere
- Price
- $25 + $2 Convenience Fee*
- Genres
- Dance, Music, Theater
- DATE
- NOV 12-14
- TIME
- THU-SAT, 8 PM
- STREAM
- SAT, 8 PM (PT)
- RUNTIME
- Approx. 90 minutes, with one intermission
- COUNTRY
- USA
* Discounts available for REDCAT members, students & CalArts faculty and staff
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About
The 23rd annual New Original Works continues with a program of works by by Brenda Barrios, Cody Perkins / Algorythm.Code, and SUUVI.
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Brenda Barrios
Muñequita Muy Muy
Brenda Barrios’ Muñequita Muy Muy blends cultural symbolism, queerness, and disability justice into a celebration of healing and visibility. Drawing inspiration from her experience as a first-generation Mexican American, Barrios uses sculpture, dance, song, and storytelling to bring life-size replica dolls and a motorized truck onstage alongside live musicians and performers. Barrios composes and performs original music combining pop music and Mexican operatic vocal traditions with ranchera and rock en español, alongside extended vocal techniques including el grito mexicano. Her detailed, hyperrealistic sculptures transform familiar objects into milagritos—Mexican charms to meditate on how bodies hold histories of care, struggle, and evolution.
Cody Perkins / Algorythm.Code
Motherboard
Can machines support empathy, rather than extraction? Choreographer, composer, and director Cody Perkins / Algorythm.Code (Art and Technology MFA) takes up this question about technology and intimacy in Motherboard. In this dance and music piece, performer Gretch Ackerman enters into an evolving relationship with the Motherboard shrine—an independent electronic device onstage that observes, responds to, and directs her body. Perkins draws a connection between women and machines, recognizing that both have historically been controlled and discarded within systems of power. Through movement, sound, ritual, and interaction with the Motherboard shrine, a shared history of exploitation evolves into a duet of care and exchange.
SUUVI
REGENESIS
Combining original music for cello and electronics with audio and motion-reactive visuals, REGENESIS explores cycles of rupture, transformation, and renewal. This interdisciplinary performance draws connections between the rejuvenation of ecosystems, the formation of stars, and the healing of the human nervous system, weaving SUUVI’s personal journey into a broader meditation on resilience and new life. Her virtuosic composition and solo performance on electrified cello is mixed with cinematic visuals by Kyter Steffes and choreography by Megan Paradowski, in a work that invites audiences to reflect on how collapse can become the catalyst for new possibilities.
Please note: Muñequita Muy Muy contains flashing lights, loud sounds and mature content; Motherboard contains nudity and loud sounds; REGENESIS contains flashing lights, loud sounds and mature content.
NOW 2026: Week Two will be presented as one shared program of all three works on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
REGENESIS was developed with support from Media Art Xploration as part of MAXmachina 2026.
about the artists
Brenda Barrios is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, performance, music, video, painting, and installation. Working from her experience as a first-generation Mexican American, Barrios creates tactile and performative environments that merge personal narrative with collective memory. Drawing from early training in dance and fashion, she approaches the body as choreography, archive, and instrument. Sculptures, sound, and installations function as stages where gestures, labor, and care unfold in real time. Through performance, Barrios explores the body as a site of negotiation between visibility and invisibility, ability and vulnerability, intimacy and public space. Barrios studied art, dance, and fashion at Pasadena City College before earning a BA in Art from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2023 and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2025. Barrios has exhibited and performed at Univision, The Latinx Project NYU, Hammer Museum, Kiang Malingue Gallery, Haight Street Art Gallery, Boone Family Art Gallery, the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), New Wight Gallery, and the Yale University Art Gallery.
Cody Perkins, also known as Algorythm.Code, is a Los Angeles-based composer, producer, performance artist, and interdisciplinary storyteller whose practice explores identity, queerness, healing, Black cultural memory, and the emotional residue of lived experience. Trained in classical piano, voice, dance, and electronic music at Alexander Hamilton Music Academy, and in audio engineering at California State University, Dominguez Hills, Perkins is currently in the Art and Technology MFA program at CalArts. As the founder of Airdrome Affaire, Perkins creates work that uses sound, performance, film, installation, and emerging technology as tools for memory, embodiment, and world-building. Their practice has been featured in Vogue, Vice, and Office Magazine, and presented at Art Basel, Outfest, Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier, the Hammer Museum, and the Institute of Contemporary Art. They have also composed for dance and worked across live sound, installation, and interdisciplinary performance contexts. Through layered sonic worlds and embodied narrative, Perkins builds projects that honor personal history while opening imaginative space for collective reflection and transformation.
SUUVI is a Cuban-Chinese multidisciplinary artist, composer, producer, creative technologist, and cellist working at the intersection of electronic music, contemporary composition, immersive technology, and storytelling. Rooted in a foundation of classical cello performance, her practice has evolved into a genre-fluid sonic language that blends cello, electronics, voice, and visual worlds to create emotionally resonant, cinematic experiences. After entering Juilliard at age ten, she spent over fifteen years performing internationally as a soloist, appearing at Carnegie Hall, Fondation Louis Vuitton, and the Berlin Philharmonie, and touring globally as the solo cellist in Hans Zimmer’s live show. Her work explores mental health, identity, healing, and collective transformation through immersive audiovisual performance.
Photo: Davion Alston; ACE Hotel; courtesy of SUUVI & Kyter Steffes.
