Through media production we can create change. We live in a culture surrounded by media. The more corporatized this media becomes the more necessary it is for us to create our own media. The Midnight Media Coup is a formal expression of my (Helyx Chase) artistic and activist work.
Current projects:
Helyx is a member of the Trans Oral History Project, which seeks to gather and distribute the stories of Trans* people at low or no cost through community work and our website (transoralhistory.com). Additionally, the collective worked at UIC in Chicago as a Collective in Residency to bring an exhibit on 40 years of Trans History as well as interactive workshops and community building activities.
(his)Story: A Generation of Documentation is currently installed at Scribe Video Center in West Philadelphia from May through the week of June 4th. (http://scribe.org/)
Additionally, Helyx is working with the folx at Trans-Genre to produce Visual Voices, a compilation of visual work by Trans* Artists (http://trans-genre.net/)
