Indexical

Working across the fields of geo-humanities, visual art, and performance, Tyler Rai investigates processes of earthly transformation. Through material studies of stones, sediments, and soil, her research draws connections between human and geologic embodiments, ancestral memory, and ecological attention.

Her installations and performance works have been shown nationally across the U.S, most recently alongside artists Athena LaTocha and Mary Mattingly in To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home at The Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MI) and the Fairfield University Art Museum (CT). She is currently an MFA candidate in Environmental Art and Social Practice at UC Santa Cruz.

⛰ Dima Mabsout + Tyler Rai - STONE SOUP
📅 Sat., June 13, 2026
🕗 Doors at 5:30pm | Show at 6pm
📍 Indexical, 1050 River St #119, Santa Cruz, CA
🎟 at indexical.org

Saturday, June 13, Dima Mabsout and Tyler Rai present STONE SOUP, a communal gathering working through ritual, storytelling, sound, and performance, to explore lithic material as a source for transformation and renewal.

Dima Mabsout is a multidisciplinary, Lebanese artist working in photo, social performance, installation, and material processes, currently based in Santa Cruz. In Lebanon, between 2019-2023, during the uprising, economic collapse, port explosion and pandemic, the crises formed the creative imperative to uplift the imagination and reclaim collective narratives. There, she co-founded Zayraqoun, a collective centered around street theatre that collaborated with educational, cultural and political sectors.

Working across the fields of geo-humanities, visual art, and performance, Tyler Rai investigates processes of earthly transformation. Through material studies of stones, sediments, and soil, her research draws connections between human and geologic embodiments, ancestral memory, and ecological attention.

📅 Sat., June 13, 2026
🕗 Doors at 5:30pm | Show at 6pm
📍 Indexical, 1050 River St #119, Santa Cruz, CA
🎟 at indexical.org

TOMORROW: Indexical returns to Radius Gallery! 🌙

Indexical presents MOONS — an all-female ensemble exploring improvisation, graphic scores, and alternate tunings.

📅 Fri., April 24, 2026
🕗 Doors at 6:30pm | Show at 7pm
📍 Radius Gallery, 1050 River St #127, Santa Cruz, CA
🎟 Tickets at indexical.org

Laura Cetilia, a daughter of a mixed heritage Mexican-American musician is at home with in-betweenness, straddling multiple worlds as cellist / composer / educator / artist while working within acoustic / electronic / traditional / experimental sound practices. Her compositions have been described as “unorthodox loveliness” (Boston Globe) and hailed as “alternately penetrating and atmospheric” (Sequenza 21).

Katie Porter is a Brooklyn-based clarinetist, performer/composer, writer, and artist. Her projects include collaborations across the US and Europe with: Lucio Capece, Christine Tavolacci, Bob Bellrue, Devin Maxwell, James Ilgenfritz, Lucie Vitkova, Teerapat Parnmonkol, and Anne Penders.

Christine Tavolacci is a Los Angeles based flutist specializing in contemporary and experimental music. Currently, she is active as a soloist, improviser, curator and chamber musician both in California and internationally. She is co-founder and co-director of Southland Ensemble, and has been a frequent performer in the Monday Evening Concerts series in Los Angeles, the world’s longest-running series devoted to contemporary music.

Judith Berkson is a mezzo-soprano, pianist and composer living in Los Angeles, California. She has collaborated with Kronos Quartet, Wet Ink, Yarn/Wire and City Opera and has presented work at Picasso Museum Malaga, Roulette, Le Poison Rouge, Joe’s Pub, The Stone, Barbes, Bang On A Can, and the 92 Street Y.