SEMI//DEMI imagines an alternative transmission vehicle. In it, the artist is a conduit - a singular vessel through which particular identity narratives, chthonic frequencies, and sociocultural platforms are conflated, decontextualized and re-imagined. The premise of one body situating many functions and therefor, multiple realities - can be seen as a tangent to many works. For example, Holly Go Lightly can be seen as a recent example of an avatar or simulation narrative as much as Prometheus can be or the monster of Frankenstein - when examined as the journey of one vessel to reach for an identity outside of its own imagined parameters. SEMI//DEMI is about the sympathetic vetruvian man, more or less, through which the artist posits transmission to and from his own reality. Similar to the central character of Jane Wagner’s “Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe,” a transient woman named Trudy, who transmits to different feminist narratives in the conflated experiences of second wave feminism and the early aids crisis via a collander on her head, the artist simulates a possession narrative through which particular experiences are indicated or more resonant.

Bashir Naim A.K.A Fine Artist is a movement artist and actor based primarily in Los Angeles. His family founded a dance and performance art community in The Berkshire mountains. Naim was early acquainted with artists like Michael Clark, Pina Bausch. Naim has collaborated or performed with Love Bailey, Peaches, Yoyo Ma, David Amram, the Kronos Quartet, Sia, Devendra Banhart, Rose McGowan, Our Lady J, Millie Brown, Ryan Heffington, Zackary Drucker, Ellen von Unwerth, Mykki Blanco, Zemmoa, Trvst, Ron Athey, Alberto Cortes, Boychild, Dia Dear, Paula Nacif, Mecca Vazie Andrews, and Sofia Moreno. Naim was recently an Artist-in-Residence at Movement Research NYC and S & S Projects (Chicago). He can be seen opposite Anjelica Huston and Jeffrey Tambor on Amazon’s “Transparent," in Benjy Russell’s “Battlefield of Flowers," and the upcoming short film, “Raymond.” He has been featured in Bullet Magazine, Vice magazine - in print as well as on their docuseries with Ellen Page, “Gaycation." His solo performance work has been shown at the Hammer Museum, S & S Projects Chicago, the Tom of Finland House, Human Resources Gallery in LA, with Rhonda and Soho House International, Art Basel Miami and at dozens of nightclubs and warehouses across the world.