Becoming Queer Nomad: transforming spatiality through artivism and subverting visual cultures.
The characteristics of subverting capitalist realism within artistic works were analyzed and resulted in the exhibited thesis project Remembering Queer Nomad (2023). Remembering Queer Nomad is a six-part series containing sculptural works, sound & video installations, community-based art, and recycled found objects. The findings of the artistic research derived the framework of becoming queer nomad.
This distinguishes itself from being a queer person and coming from an international, or nomadic, background, into the role of a person capable of transforming visual, ontological, and physical spaces. As a case study, the results and process are documented and evaluated. The work is intended to inspire people to develop their own frameworks for creating alternative futures to capitalist realism.
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Time Warp
2023 / Recycled Wires, Found Objects
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Cat & Bird
2023 / Recycled Wires, Found Objects
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Red Pill, Blue Pill
2023 / Recycled Wires, Found Objects
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Marrow
2023 / Recycled Wires, Found Objects
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Remembering Queer Nomad
2023 / Paper Machè, Video Projection
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Becoming Queer Nomad
2023 / Crochet Blanket, Video Projection
Becoming Queer Nomad / 2023
13:16 / Moving Image, shot with 360 GoPro & iPhone 8, DSLR Camera
Exhibited in:
2023. RAW. Himmelblau Gallery, Tampere Finland.
In order to describe myself, I have memories and moments, many of which are mundane instead of more catalytic "identity-defining moments". The work compiles both a still moment in transitory spaces like transportation and a moment of movement in a located space, such as the swing set. The overlapping of two worlds meshing movement and pause. A paradox in which the audience is perhaps not sure which is memory and which is present or even what connects these moments in space and time.
2012 was the year I got my first phone when my family and I moved from New York to Sweden and it was from this point, my life began to be recorded in video form from my perspective. Ergo, not from my parents, grandparents, school, or other lenses that could invoke the idealized child/childhood. This is also a collaboration between my childhood self and my current self. The work is also interesting in the context of heterotopia as it collages private and public moments, and memories from a few different countries (ex. Venice, Italy; Paris, France; Linköping, Sweden; Paimio, Espoo, Helsinki, & Tampere, Finland…)—a fragmented juxtaposition of times and places.