Performance Dates: Friday, Nov. 20 at 7 pm and Saturday, Nov. 21 at 5 pm

Exhibition Dates: Saturday, Nov. 21 through Saturday, Dec. 19 

Gallery Hours: Saturdays from 1- 5 pm 

TREADMILL is a live performance and movement-activated installation inspired by the Biblical story of Samson, featuring a bitter and horny monologue by a mid-30s gay guy about sex, death, and transformation, with musical arrangements by Andi Kerr, performances on November 20 at 7 pm and November 21 at 5 pm at Indexical, Santa Cruz. The installation, which includes live-processed sound designed specifically for Indexical’s new 7.2 sound system, was built by Patrick Stephenson and Jordan Fickel and will be open to the public on Saturdays from 1-5 pm, November 21 through December 19 

Robbie Trocchia is an artist working in performance, sound, video, installation, and writing. His work engages with themes of embodiment, desire, power, and intimacy, often through collaborative processes. In 2025, Robbie was a Visual Art Fellow at Vermont Studio Center. He has also participated in residencies at Catwalk Art Institute (Catskill), Locust Projects (Miami), Espacio Lavadero (Granada), and Espai Souvenir (Barcelona). He received a BA in American Studies from Vassar College in 2014 and an MFA in Digital Arts and New Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2024, where his thesis project eroto-system was awarded the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures by The Humanities Institute. In fall 2025, Trocchia and collaborator Chessa D presented Death Spiral as part of “X: Gender, Identity, Presence” at Colgate University’s Picker Art Gallery and bout at INVERSE Performance Art Festival presented by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and The Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas. Their latest video work, Spot Kick, was included in the group show Stoppage Time at Fjord, Philadelphia in summer 2026.

This program is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.