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Show Project: August 2-27, 2023
UNSETTLED: Transcultural Experiences
6 Creators
Maria Patricia Abuel
Ellen Chang-Richardson
Dalia El Toark
Lila Fatehi
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Monica Grunwald
Curators
Julius Poncelet Manapul (they/them)
Neda Omidvar (she/her)
"Unsettled: Transcultural Experiences” brings together a multimedia artwork installation from the personal narratives of 6 BIPOC female artists. Examining the effects of colonialism on diasporic and transcultural bodies, the exhibition explores the concept of eternal displacement, family kinship, and the idea of home-land through global identity constructs and memory. Bound by ideas of digital kinship and a shared feeling of floating through colonial landscapes, these artists delve into notions of unsettledness through a multimedia body of works.
In excavating the concepts of family roots, and examining their sense of ambivalence in belonging, the exhibition opens up the concept of home. Here, home exists not as a state of tangible space, but as a fleeting idea of an un-attainable space: a crafted place where conversations, safety, and be/longing can occur within the stillness of the sterile white gallery. In doing so, this exhibition simultaneously questions its own purpose and intentions in housing these unsettled, transcultural, experiences.
26 Creators
Reymond Shea Lise, Liam Curran, Raastiin, Avi Goodman, Elijah Harrison, Jay Jeong, Vivian Zhang, Ren Vitug, Alexis Nanibush-Pamajewong, Nima Parniani, Omar T. Zayed, Pauline Jondy, Yetong Qi, Kai Lumbang, Alice Wong, Unity Chiu, Margot Brighton, Leon Kim, Olivia DU, YiZ, Minseo Kim, Hannah Kryworuchko, Juni Magdalene, Nadia Da Siva, Joe Woolfe, and Anastasia Hryciuk.
Curator
Julius Poncelet Manapul (they/them)
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A collection of 26 creators works by artists, creators, digital media makers, and designers tackling the criticality within the LGBTQ2S+ Communities.
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Tackling issues of gender representations, relationships, beliefs, and cultural stands that informs the ongoing conversation in Queer and Gender Theory, coming from different backgrounds, experiences, and criticality. Outside the Box Collective are proud in support of QUEERIOUS: The Politics of Gender Identity.
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This catalogue of works echo’s the uncompromising Queerious narratives beyond the politics of gender identity. Covering a multi-disciplinary body of works that challenges the homonormative and homonationalist state of passive compliance to make way to gender fluidity, culture, beliefs, rituals, kinships, languages, and lived experiences outside the normative state of being, creating cathartic expressions of diverse individuals and materials through adversity. This online show explores the four chapters: "Queerious Gender Play", "Queerious Cultural Kinships", "Queerious Childhoods & Be-longings", and "Queerious Rituals".
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The purpose of this show is to create a space of dialogue for under-represented narratives excavated within the complexities in the queer communities that informs and reclaim a place of cultural and global awareness in the possibilities of Queer Futurities.