This Valentineās Day, Iām joining @noprideingenocide_ to demand that queer and trans orgs like @glaad , @glsen , @humanrightscampaign , @pflag , and @trevorproject break up with genocide and support the fight for Palestinian Liberation.
Sign the petition: noprideingenocide.org/breakup
āFor a fraction of a second, their eyes met; Gayemonās smoldering yellow gaze made Sance melt into a blissful abyss. He spilled his beeswax crayons on a fallen tree with a sob. All Sance could see and hear had gone blank; all he felt was Gayemonās mouth as it sucked every last drop of vitality from Sanceās heart.ā
-Mont Chauve par Nuit, a gothic fanfic of mont royal x night
Iāve joined w 3k+ Queer artists, performers and cultural workers in solidarity with Palestinians demanding an immediate ceasefire and end to years of occupation and violence. Enough is enough. Not in my name!
āWe will continue to speak out for Palestine, to educate ourselves, and to uplift Palestinian voices. Our queerness, and our humanity, demand that we do so.ā
Read the full letter at queerartistsforpalestine.org
Machinima playing around with dynamic screencapture movement for my machinima work on gothy fantasies of cruising sites (this one specifically Parc Mont Royal/Tekanontak)
#mtlartist #machinima #imvu
I extend my creative research of queer sites into machinima (animation produced in digital platforms like SecondLife, or here IMVU). In this vr patchwork of digital assets, Iāve recreated a simulation of Hanlanās Point Beach as a queer gothic fantasy spaceāhauntlandās point. Using VR social space allows me to re-enact and create new meanings for a site of memory, haunting, and loss (and pleasure of course).
In my current creative research, I am creating a gothic fantasy of Hanlanās Point Beach, an important queer space with many layers of history and intervention on Mnisiing, or Toronto Islands, as a āgeographical palimpsestā of lost futures. Pictured here are my illustrator vector map drawn from both unrealized urban plans for the island, and historical maps of its shifting shoreline. These drawings will be turned into digital embroidery patterns which will be added to my current patchwork quilts.
Part of my PhD research-creation around how we feel queerly and respond aesthetically to ecological mourning. Stay tuned for the further completed works.
using chainmail to rust dye flower field of pansies for the backs of me quilts that will be up in a queer ecologies show in TO this pride. Some questions I asked in this process of commemorative textiles: What does it mean to rot and decay yet leave an impression? What dies and dyes to entertain? How can a troubled past change our present course through feeling it?
Iāll be presenting on the Necroverse, Queer Erotics, and Generative AI as Conjuring at the CAA conference in Chicago on the 19th of February (conference goes 18-21). Honoured to be part of @lorelei_td ās panel Can GenAI Be A Medium for Art.
XO
It was such a huge privilege and pleasure to present my work on āPansies: A Brief Historyā at @amcintoshy ās Wild Kin: A Queer Ecologies Symposium, part of Aaronās larger project on Exuberant Botanicals and Queer Ecological praxis. Hosted generously @cu4thspace , @fofagallery , @cissc.concordia and supported by @textilesandmateriality and many more.
Watch the full presentations on youtube via 4th Spaceās channel, to also see presentations by wonderful fellow grad scholars/artists @abi.hodson and @hailey_guzik_ alongside @queerecology and Cate Sandilands.
My heart and mind and pansiful self was full to the brim and overflowing xo
Save some flowers boy bleeder, form elegiac poeticsāimagined funerals, dirge-core, flag dances, poor revenants
old imvu digi-goth environment with necropolitan avatar
