Guillermo Enrique Brown is a drummer, vocalist, producer, and performance artist whose work moves between experimental music, theater, and sound installation. He has released projects under his own name and as Pegasus Warning, including Soul at the Hands of the Machine, Black Dreams 1.0, Handeheld, Shuffle Mode, WOOF TICKET, and PwEP2, with the full-length Dream&Destroy forthcoming. His one-man theater work Robeson in Space premiered at Luna Stage, and his performance pieces include Bee Boy, Postcolonial Bacchanale, and SYRUP.
His installation and interdisciplinary projects have appeared at The Studio Museum in Harlem (cracked unicorns), Harlem Stage, The Kitchen, and as part of Adrienne Kennedy’s She Talks to Beethoven at JACK, directed by Charlotte Brathwaite. He is also a member of the collaborative trio Thiefs.
Brown holds degrees from Wesleyan University (B.A.) and Bard College (M.F.A.). He has taught at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute and Gallatin School, and has held residencies at Pacific Northwest College of Art, MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology, Harvestworks, and others. He received a Creative Capital Award for Bee Boy in 2016.
As a performer, Brown has appeared on more than 45 recordings and collaborated live or in studio with artists including Vijay Iyer, Mike Ladd, Matthew Shipp, David S. Ware, William Parker, Anthony Braxton, DJ Spooky, El-P, Vernon Reid, Wangechi Mutu, Das Racist, Jamie Lidell, Twin Shadow, Grisha Coleman, and many others.
He most recently appeared as the drummer in the house band Melissa on The Late Late Show with James Corden alongside bandleader Reggie Watts.
Kathleen Kim is a musician and composer with a background in improvisation, avant jazz and classical theories. She finds inspiration in world folk and roots music to find rhythm and melody in solitude with her surroundings or in syncopated solidarity with others. In addition to her solo work, she plays in the feminastic experimental duo SheKhan and the acoustic avant jazz chamber ensemble LA Fog. Kathleen studied with the late great Yusef Lateef, whose prolific artistry with diverse musical forms, instrumentation, and genres continue to influence her. Kathleen has performed and/or commissioned site-specific pieces for a range of music and art contexts with performance highlights at the openings of the 2012 Whitney Biennial and the 2017 Venice Biennale in the Central Pavilion as part of Dawn Kasper's Nomadic Studio.
Kathleen is also a legal scholar and law professor at LMU Loyola Law School (LLS) who teaches and writes about immigrants' rights and workplace rights through a Thirteenth Amendment anti-subordination framework that centers critical race feminism. At LLS, she recently served as the inaugural Associate Dean of Equity & Inclusion and she is the recipient of the Association of American Law Schools Michael A. Olivas Award for her leadership in promoting women faculty and faculty of color in legal academia.
Kim has organized and facilitated conversations around culture, equity, care, and community throughout her endeavors, bringing that same sensitivity to collaborative creative processes. At Portalis she serves as co-founder and creative steward of place, shaping how artists encounter the site and how sound and environment meet.
Her work continues to evolve toward deeper integration of land-based listening, intuitive composition, and collaborative sonic research.
