Take a minute and get to know Emmet Prieto Webster (he/him), one of Level Ground's three resident artists this year!

Born and raised in Echo Park, Emmet Prieto Webster is a multimedia artist who explores cultural fantasies and speculative realities in his work. He first began making art amongst the diverse music communities of Los Angeles, primarily the backyard punk scene and the youth mariachi circuit. He became fascinated by the opportunity these audio/visual environments created for individuals to speculate on and implement alternative identities and realities. Through archival and research practice, audio collage, and visual staging, Emmet digests, documents, imagines and reimagine these speculative cultures found within the urban environment.

Emmet’s residency project will be an audiovisual reflection on the construction of generational and intercultural identity through the consumption of popular media - through the lens of Rebelde, a Mexican telenovela and live music act that ran from between 2004 to 2006.

Emmet’s project will digest and reinterpret Rebelde’s iconographic language of teen romance, music, and class struggle into a work including spatialized sound collage, music and digital image.

Emmet had the pleasure of composing music for Jocelyn Reyes' most recent dance work, Lasos. This show was intended as a live performance, but the work was adapted to video in order to allow the artists to continue practicing social distancing measures. Below, check out the video adaptation of the performance’s opening section.

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