Till the Teeth is an interdisciplinary art collective founded by Jonathan Rodriguez and Sandesh Nagaraj. Engaging sound, movement, and visual media, their work spans performance, sculpture, and multimedia installation. Grounded in the cultural and contested landscapes of the U.S.-Mexico border and southern India, Till the Teeth serves as a lens for framing sonic and spatial ecologies, using improvisation, ritual, and metamorphosis as central methodologies. Their practice embraces a rasquachismo ethic—making do with available resources—alongside experimental approaches that interrogate the boundaries of music, performance, and art-making. By activating found objects, field recordings, and reimagined instruments, Till the Teeth explores sound as an unpredictable, ephemeral, and communal medium for resistance and renewal.

2024-25 New Media Gallery: we being so

2022-23 New Media Gallery (with Whitney Lynn and Barry Olusegun-Noble Despenza): Time Kills

Exhibits
a layered collage, with digital and analog, black and white and color elements

Till the Teeth | we being so READ MORE >

Two martini glasses with red and yellow plates on either side, with a pink candle lighted on both ends suspended between them.

Whitney Lynn with Till the Teeth | TIME KILLS READ MORE >

Sound Clips
  • Hands holding plastic flowers, parts of a drum kit.
    Whitney Lynn and Till the Teeth New Media Gallery Podcast