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title: Invasions (Performance) - Halim Madi
url: https://www.halimmadi.com/works/invasions-performance/
description: A poetry performance built from scam texts, capitalist language, and machine hallucinations.
generated: 2026-09-06
---

# Invasions (Performance)

computer theater

Jun '22 - Apr '24
San Francisco, Los Angeles, CDMX, Santa Barbara, Ojai

![Invasions performance - the poet reading and replying live to scam texts on stage](https://www.halimmadi.com/Assets/images/works/invasions-performance/featured.jpg)

Invasions is a poetry performance built from scam texts, capitalist language, and machine hallucinations. On stage, the poet reads and replies live to digital debris, transforming scams into songs, interruptions into incantations. The piece is part comedy, part ritual, part call-and-response. It invites us to find tenderness inside the noise, and to ask: what do we owe our ghosts?

![Invasions performance, the poet on stage mid-reading](https://www.halimmadi.com/Assets/images/works/invasions-performance/DSC03214.JPG)

![Invasions performance, audience watching the live reply to scam texts](https://www.halimmadi.com/Assets/images/works/invasions-performance/DSC03233.JPG)

![Invasions performance, a wider view of the stage](https://www.halimmadi.com/Assets/images/works/invasions-performance/DSC03239.JPG)

![Invasions performance documentation](https://www.halimmadi.com/Assets/images/works/invasions-performance/DO1030840.png)

![Invasions performance documentation](https://www.halimmadi.com/Assets/images/works/invasions-performance/DO1030850.png)

![Invasions performance, close view of the poet](https://www.halimmadi.com/Assets/images/works/invasions-performance/IMG_3282.JPG)

![Invasions performed live on Lucile](https://www.halimmadi.com/Assets/images/works/invasions-performance/Live%20on%20Lucile.png)