When Fathomers reached out to us to help curate musical activations in response to their evocative exhibition, Emergence: Art From Life, we were honored to collaborate once again with such a wonderful team. From 3pm – 4:30pm, experience two sonic interpretations of the exhibition by Callie Ryan (DJ set) and Dustin Wong (live performance) as part of PST ART Weekend: DTLA

Image by Carson Davis Brown

Emergence is singular among PST ART exhibitions for its presentation of living biological artworks and projects created in collaboration with a global cohort of synthetic biologists and medical researchers. Visitors will encounter human bones grown from synthetic mother-of-pearl; objects dyed with bioengineered indigo pigment; and living, microscopic human tear glands that cry.

For PST ART Weekend, join Fathomers for a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Emergence. Take a special tour with curator Stacy Switzer of the biology lab built expressly for the exhibition. Learn about the daily choreographies of maintenance required to sustain the microorganism life behind the artworks from the technicians extending these acts of care. Close out the day with a musical hour curated by dublab in response to the provocations of Emergence as you walk through the galleries.

For accessibility needs and accommodations, please contact aqz@fathomers.org.

Image by Jennelle Fong

Dustin Wong was born in Hawaii (1982) and grew up in Tokyo. He studied Film at the California College of Arts in Oakland (2001-2003) and sculpture and performance at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (2003-2005).

After graduating from MICA, his creative focus shifted to music. Forming bands (Ecstatic Sunshine, Ponytail) and cultivating solo music projects opened opportunities for him to travel throughout the US and Europe.

​For over ten years, the themes of Dustin’s work have been interested in the mystical, esoteric, and spiritual and, in recent years, have moved towards the idea of creating a space for healing through sight and sound.

Callie Ryan—she/her/hers; currently living on Tongva, Hahamogna, and Kizh land— is an electronic musician, resident dublab DJ, design artist, composer, acupuncturist, and disability justice advocate living with Ankylosing Spondylitis. Through her various practices, Callie aims to make works that provide safe containers for exploring our unique internal anatomical processes and their impact on our embodied experience within a surrounding ecosystem through sound curation and composition. Callie’s creative practice is rooted in social justice work and inspired by frameworks of mutual aid and intersectional disability. Her dublab show, STORAGE CONTAINER is a he mix series which aims to act as a virtual vessel—providing a safe, ever-changing, sonic landscape in which listeners and guests can engage in practices of learning, unlearning, expansion, growth, grief, anger, creativity and joy alongside one another.

Callie has performed alongside artists such as Visible Cloaks, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Sage Caswell, Kelman Duran, Harriet Brown, Aisha Devi, Loscil, Leech, Violence, Daedelus,  Jimmy Tamborello (DNTEL) and more. She has presented both her live set and consciously curated DJ sets in spaces such as LACMA (Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art), David Lynch’s Festival of Disruption, The Ace Hotel Theater, the 2018 Ableton Loop Summit, and the Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco. In 2019, Callie released her first record, HEALTH, which was released via the Los Angeles label, Outside Insight. The stream for HEALTH was first released and reviewed by i-D Magazine, and the music video for her single, Paste, was premiered via Vogue Magazine.

Callie has recently earned her masters degree in East Asian Medicine and Herbalism with the intention of creating accessible trauma-informed medical care for marginalized bodies.