aquí estamos/here we are

Project Statement
falla vernacular / vernacular glitch*
experimento . poli temporal . del estar y no estar . simultáneamente . hacer y deshacer . espacios domésticos aislados . cruzan . imaginario exterior . sus posibilidades sofocadas . una improvisación performática y audiovisual que usa el —glitch— como partida para explorar una frustración compleja entre lo presencial, lo tangible y sus fallidas imitaciones.

experiment . poli temporality . from being and not being . simultaneously . doing and undoing . alienated domestic spaces . crossings . imagined exterior . suffocating possibilities . an audiovisual and performative improvisation that uses the —glitch— as a starting point to explore the frustrations and complexities between the presence, the tangible, and its unlimited errors.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Aquí estamos / here we are is an online exhibition, an act of collective solidarity, regeneration and celebration between queer artists from the Bay Area and Puerto Rico redefining the domestic space. Under the circumstances of the shelter-in-place in the Bay Area and the lockdown in Puerto Rico, the question of what a domestic space is, what it should be for and what it should do, has shifted. Aquí estamos / here we are fosters conversations and collaborations amongst artists from two places that are home to joyful, persevering, and active communities. As queers of color, re-imagining our futures includes rejecting the past as “the normal” and questioning our own relationships with what is considered a domestic, private or safe space.

Once a week throughout June, artists will share work through intimate online conversations and a virtual exhibition that will take over Queer Cultural Center’s Instagram. They are creating work by rethinking what a domestic space is and could be. At the end of June, all the artists will gather to have an open conversation with the show’s curator on how we reimagine collective futures from a domestic space. These creations and conversations will be in a digital publication available later this year.

View more work from the exhibition at X-Patterns