Connecting the Dots

with TrueAnon, Jenna Bliss, and Ivan Gaytan

Thursday, January 16, 7pm
Géza, 306 Maujer
Jenna Bliss, Conspiracy, 2021. Super8mm film transferred to HD video, 1:46 min. Courtesy of FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna, and Ulrik, New York.

Connecting the Dots brings together TrueAnon podcast hosts Liz Franczak and Brace Belden, alongside writer Ivan Gaytan, in dialogue with artist Jenna Bliss’s exhibition Basic Cable. Drawing from Jenna’s video work of the same name, which reflects on image production post-9/11, the conversation will cover conspiracies, media, power, and cultural memory. Jenna’s darkly humorous approach—using her Super 8mm archive with Financial District imagery—collides with TrueAnon’s irreverent critique of power structures, finance, and politics, offering a layered discussion into the mechanisms of authority and narrative.

This event is held in conjunction with the book launch of Jenna Bliss, published by Spector Books and Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, as part of their exhibition with Jenna in 2024. Featuring a foreword by Anna Gritz and correspondence by Ivan Gaytan, the bilingual publication will be available for purchase.

Amant events are always free; RSVPs are required. Check-in for Connecting the Dots will start at 6:30pm on Thursday, January 16, outside of Géza, located at 306 Maujer. The conversation will take place in Géza.

Jenna Bliss is an artist, filmmaker, and video editor. She lives in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (2024) and Homing at Ulrik, New York (2022).

Ivan Gaytan is a writer living in New York City. 

TrueAnon is a podcast about your enemies from your friends. Brought to you by Liz Franczak, Brace Belden, and Yung Chomsky, it launched in 2019 with a focus on the Jeffrey Epstein case, a story the podcast has followed ever since. Its scope has expanded to encompass not only Epstein’s vast network, but other stories that illuminate the overt and covert ways power is exercised.