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Teleplasm Hotline broadcasts Jazmyn Crosby’s work inside and outside of Big Ramp’s gallery space and across its airwaves. It will feature her newly published book Other Networks: Interspecies Communication Operations Manual. Teleplasm Hotline presents a field of new and reimagined works that engage with Crosby’s continued experimentation with forms of communication and attunement with the more-than-human world.

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 13 6-9pm

Book Launch and Performance with The Media Archaeology Lab: Thursday, July 16 6:30-9:30pm

Closing Reception: Saturday, July 25 6-9pm

Teleplasm Hotline presents a field of new and reimagined works that engage with Crosby’s continued experimentation with forms of communication and attunement with the more-than-human world. Like many artists who seek to productively, not just aesthetically, concern their work with the anthropogenic climate crisis, Crosby selects materials thoughtfully and examines their ecological and social entanglements without reducing the work to didacticism. Sea water, salt, carbon, copper, and zinc echo throughout and beyond the gallery in assemblages with antennae, radio receivers and transmitters, projectors, and tablets. Before Crosby’s work, we tune into the more-than-human world. We hear voices, transmogrified through buzzers powered by the ancient conductivity of sea water, of species we have forgotten or not yet learned to hear. Scales of time and space are also key limiting factors for our human perception of the agency and behavior of non-human beings. Over the course of the exhibition, Crosby’s sea water battery will (slowly) get itself to work, following the artist’s lead in symbiopoiesis, encrusting the artist’s work in a crystalline architecture and (al)chemically transforming the lowly penny into rich verdigris.