InResidency by The Bureau of Queer Art is a media venture for Contemporary Queer & Allied Creatives to explore representation, identity, and themes of outsiderness in a culture of 'mall-ification'. “Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.” -Bell Hooks Apply to participate at BureauQueerArt.com
InResidency by The Bureau of Queer Art is a media venture for Contemporary Queer & Allied Creatives to explore representation, identity, and themes of outsiderness in a culture of 'mall-ification'. “Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.” -Bell Hooks Apply to participate at BureauQueerArt.com
Laura Ortiz Vega no solo crea arte—ella negocia entre mundos.
Laura Ortiz Vega doesn’t just make art—she negotiates between worlds.
Sus universos bordados y con cuentas son colisiones de lo ritual y lo Pop, de los ancestros y los punks callejeros, de lo sagrado y lo escandaloso.
Her beaded, stitched universes are collisions of ritual and Pop, ancestors and street punks, the sacred and the scandalous.
Desde IMMORTAL Queer Art Fair en CDMX hasta Dismantled Vol. 10 con Maryland Art Place en Baltimore, su obra derrumba el andamiaje del “arte alto” y el “arte bajo”, tejiendo la libertad de nuevo en la forma.From IMMORTAL Queer Art Fair in CDMX to
Dismantled Vol. 10 with Maryland Art Place in Baltimore, her work tears down the scaffolding of “high” and “low” art, weaving freedom back into form.
Cada cuenta, cada hilo, es diplomacia—una diplomacia rebelde.Every bead, every thread, is diplomacy—a riotous one.🎥 Extracto de entrevista de la serie continua de TBQA que conecta México y Estados Unidos a través de la producción cultural queer.🎥 Interview excerpt from TBQA’s ongoing series bridging Mexico and the U.S. through Queer cultural production.
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