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An immersive performance series inspired by the webs that connects the cells of our bodies to the grand sweeps of history...
Immersive arts meets interactive performance
In July of 2025, Bay Area multidisciplinary artists, LindenJL and Puja Tolton, teamed up to create an experimental marriage of installation and performance art.
Inspired by the webs that connect the smallest cells of our bodies to the grandest sweeps of history, these gatherings lead audiences through entangled narratives and unstable perimeters. As co-collaborators, guests delve into our calcified barriers and find ways to make a home in ambiguity.
Using real-world biological and anthropological research as an inspirational font, performers devised three days of immersive shows. Audience members were invited to explore the installation, interact with the players, and ultimately come together to build community and create their own narrative.
Kin-making within our bodies... why Strange Organs?
Let me describe the present situation we are all familiar with: each of us is tasked by necessity to make a home in a time of shifting landscapes and intangible realities. The categories that defined who we are and our place in the world have withered and folded into themselves under the pressure of collapsing global systems. We’ve been analyzed and atomized, broken down into machine parts limping along to keep up demand. How can we break through our thick individualist skins and imagine new ways of being?
Social theorist Donna Haraway gave the mandate for us to ‘stay with the trouble’. We intend to make a home there.
Our intention is to use this project to bring people together to explore realities that are hidden beneath the surface. We want to make this surface permeable, to expose some of the strange ways that we are deeply interconnected with each other, our environments, and our histories. By navigating these new connections with our audience, we hope to create tools to face a rapidly changing world together.
OUR STORY
Linden and Puja met back in 2019 at an Oakland artist co-op and have been living together in communal spaces ever since. One of the benefits of these unorthodox communities is the opportunity to bounce ideas off one another. We soon found that our creative styles meshed and after many late night conversations where we waxed poetic about the idea of collaborating on a project that combined our interests and skill sets we finally decided to bite the bullet and co-produce this show.
WHO WE ARE
VISUAL ART DIRECTOR
LINDENJL
Oakland-based artist, designer, and arts community organizer. Their work explores estrange embodiment, recursive identity building, and indeterminate boundaries through installation and mixed media practices. Their work has been featured in arts & music venues such as Envision Festival, the Loom, and Burning Man.
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PERFORMANCE ART DIRECTOR
PUJA TOLTON
Multi-disciplinary theatre artisan based in the Bay Area who takes great joy in cultivating and collaborating on works that explore a multitude of genres and mediums. She has worked with local theatre companies such as Left Coast Theatre, Awesome Theatre, Theatre Rhinoceros, and Three Girls Theatre. You can check out their short film I Broke the Looking Glass on Awesome Theatre’s youtube channel.
OUR HOLOBIOME
PERFORMER
SALMA ALFAQEEH
Salma Antonia Alfaqeeh (she/her/ella) is a theatre artist from Northern California, currently based in San Francisco. She very much enjoys theatre, strange things, and spending time with her dog Peppa.
PERFORMER
SAM HOWELL PETERSEN
Sam is a storyteller and singer from Utah now based in San Francisco. They love making weird art in community and sharing time over food.
PERFORMER
TAVIS KAMMET
Tavis is a performer and theater teacher in the bay area. His most recent shows were with Killing my Lobster and he took some of his students to Edinburgh fringe to perform an original commedia dell arts version of Cinderella which he wrote and directed.