Opening: Saturday, June 13th, 6–10 pm
Exhibition Dates: June 13 – July 5, 2026

Live Projection & Audio Performance: Sunday, July 5 at 7 pm



Good Children Gallery is pleased to present Everything Is Unreal, It’s a Glitch, a collaborative exhibition by visual artist Jess Bizer and sound artist Cristy Michel (she her sir).

Through projection, sound, and installation, the exhibition approaches the glitch as both disruption and portal: a moment where reality fractures, multiplies, and reforms.

Influenced by queer perspectives, networked technologies, and the fragmented nature of memory, the work considers identity as fluid, layered, and continually rewritten. Bodies, voices, and memories circulate through technological systems that reshape and reinterpret them, producing new forms of presence and connection.

Abstract projections, fragmented imagery, and immersive sound environments create a space where signals break apart and recombine, blurring distinctions between body and machine, memory and simulation, self and representation. Reality emerges not as a fixed condition but as a continual process of transmission, revision, and becoming.

As the first iteration of a larger collaborative project, the exhibition establishes a visual and sonic language that will expand into future performances, films, and distributed media, exploring what it means to exist as a signal within systems designed to capture, render, and control.

jessbizer.com
shehersir.com

Live Projection & Audio Performance:
Sunday, July 5 at 7 pm

Photo: Figg Selwyn (@dadwoman)



About the Artists

Jess Bizer
Jess Bizer is a New Orleans-based multidisciplinary artist working across projection, installation, and video. Her practice explores the intersection of physical and digital space, treating technology as a contemporary landscape that shapes perception, memory, and experience.
Collaboration is central to her work, including ongoing audiovisual projects with sound artist Cristy Michel that combine immersive projection, sound, and performance.
Originally from St. Petersburg, Florida, Bizer has lived and worked in New Orleans since 2006. She is a founding member of Good Children Gallery and received her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 2009. Her work has been exhibited nationally and is included in the collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Benetton Corporation.

Cristy Michel
Cristy Michel is a Cajun artist, musician, and producer working across sound, moving image, performance, and installation. Their music project, she her sir, has been presented at OutFest, MOCA, and the NOVAC Music Video Showcase.
Michel’s work explores identity, memory, and technological mediation through immersive environments that combine sound, projection, film, and performance. Drawing from queer experience and digital culture, they investigate how the self is transmitted, distorted, and reassembled through contemporary systems of representation.



Artist Statements

Jess Bizer
My interdisciplinary practice combines projection, installation, sound, and collaboration to explore how technology shapes perception and experience. I am interested in the digital realm as a contemporary landscape: one that increasingly commands our attention, emotions, and imagination as powerfully as the physical world. Rather than treating technology as a tool or subject, I approach it as an environment we inhabit, navigate, and continuously remake.

My work creates imagined digital landscapes where there is room for uncertainty, discovery, and human complexity. Influenced by queer experience, DIY artist communities, nightlife, and internet culture, I am drawn to spaces that resist fixed identities and prescribed ways of seeing. Through projection, distortion, animation, and immersive installation, I explore how mistakes, glitches, and unexpected encounters can open pathways beyond the algorithmic structures that increasingly shape everyday life. I am interested in moments where systems behave unpredictably and where new forms of connection, fluidity, and possibility can emerge.

Everything Is Unreal, It's a Glitch developed from an ongoing collaboration with Cristy Michel that began about a year ago. We discovered a shared interest in mediated experience, digital space, and the ways technology alters perception. The project grew organically from ideas surrounding a song Cristy was developing and expanded into a series of audiovisual experiments exploring the relationship between landscape, identity, and technology.

An important early iteration of the project emerged during my solo exhibition Deep Summer in the Electric Swamp at Alone Time Gallery in New Orleans. Together, Cristy and I created a live audiovisual performance that became the foundation for an evolving body of work. Through immersive projection and sound, we imagine digital space not as a site of extraction or optimization, but as a place for mystery, transformation, collective imagination, and discovery.

Cristy Michel
I began with a song. That started as a piece of music expanded into an installation and performance environment exploring identity as something continuously transmitted, interrupted, distorted, and reassembled. Everything Is Unreal, It's a Glitch examines the unstable relationship between the body, memory, and technology through sound, projection, moving image, sculpture, and performance.

I am interested in the ways contemporary life is increasingly mediated through systems of communication, representation, and surveillance. Within these systems, the self is never fixed. It is translated, fragmented, and reconstructed through language, images, data, and memory. The work explores the spaces where those translations fail, where signals break down, images fragment, and certainty dissolves.

For me, the glitch is not simply a technological error but a generative rupture. It exposes the limits of systems that attempt to define, categorize, or render experience legible. Within that instability, new possibilities emerge: identities that remain fluid, contradictory, and unresolved.

Drawing from queer experience, digital culture, and the unreliability of memory, I approach the self as something constantly in motion. Everything Is Unreal, It's a Glitch inhabits the space between signal and noise, where meaning flickers, disappears, and returns transformed.