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🌈 Come out and come thru, chosen fam & film lovers! Our FABulous, risk-taking-ly imaginative UT student-made films are about to be unleashed in Austin!!! Created during PJ Raval’s UT RTF Queer Media Production class @utexasrtf , these films are unapologetic, timely, & made with queer love & queermmunity (and a few wigs!). 🦄 Meet our bold & brilliant filmmakers whose short films are luv letters to our queer pasts, risk-taking present, and our liberated futures! This free event is also a community potluck! You’re welcome to bring a dish to add to the festivities! Featuring work by: - 2nd Years - Team 3 Star - Art. Dept - Scissor CISters - But I'm a Cheerleader? I hardly know Her! - Ribbed for Your Pleasure 🎬 Sponsored by OUTsider & UT Austin’s LGBTQ Studies | Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies @outsiderfest @utwgss @lgbtqstudiesut ⏰ Saturday, May 2nd 7 - 10pm HYPERREAL FILM CLUB, 301 Chicon St, Austin, Texas @hyperrealfilmclub ✅ FREE and open to the public. RSVP Required. Minors must be accompanied by a guardian. ‼️ Content warning: Films may contain adult content and scenes that some viewers may find disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised. Student films are the creation of the filmmakers and are not intended to reflect the views or values of The University of Texas at Austin.

Just saw Naomi Rincón Gallardo’s Versos de Porquería / Verses of Filth at @fuseboxlive with @outsiderfest last night. Absolutely wild!!! Scavengers, detached arms, and vultures rising from decay, protesting and connecting. Naomi’s work hits hard with necropolitical vibes about marginalization. Queer, decolonial, and totally unforgettable! 🙌 Music and dance by Enrique Arriaga and Venese Medovich Alcantar. Curated by @laura_g_gutierrez Shoutout to @erikameichua for letting me know about this event! I wouldn’t have caught it otherwise. Really nice seeing you again last night. 🫶

Let’s turn up the heat! 🔥 Join us on Sunday, April 26 we’re serving up something real, raw & fresh. 🍽️ Join us @highlandloungeatx for the next ‘FRESH MEAT’ ➡️ 14 local drag entertainers hit the mainstage for a chance to win 🥇 &/or just EAT IT UP! What team are you on? 👑 Winner receives a booking for a Friday night gig at Highlands, an upcoming booking for an Eileen Dover production & of course, bragging rights. (Winner determined by audience participation 👏) 🌈 In support of OUTsider’s mission to keep queer art in Texas, we’re partnering with @outsiderfest all night long. OUTsider is an Austin-based transmedia nonprofit that celebrates the bold originality and creative nonconformity of the LGBTQ+ communities through the presentation of provocative, overlooked and out-of-the-box film, dance, theater, performance art, music, writing and visual art. • 6PM - Vendor Market begins • 7PM - FRESH MEAT (Showtime) • 10PM - After Dance Party starts 🪩 + 🎧 DJ Arlini Martini (@arlinim ) 📸: @twunky.wunky / flyer: @visualsxeileendover #atx #austin #texasdrag #dragenterainer #queer

OUTsider is excited to be partnering with @fuseboxlive to present a performative screening of the short film “Versos de porquería” / “Verses of Filth” by Naomi Rincón Galllardo. Naomi is a Mexican visual artist whose work is deeply rooted in queer, feminist and decolonial methods and draws from pre-colonial epistemes. In “Verses of Filth,” a bastardized Cihuateteo has become a scavenger/seeker digging up wasteland residues: body fragments and cultural debris. Along with a band of vultures, the scavanger recruits a brigade of arms that have been detached from their bodies and underworld creatures seeking touch, pleasure and revolt. In a Mesoamerican episteme, vultures connect the earth with the underworld by sticking their heads into dead bodies. These scavenger birds eat waste, decay and corpses and are considered purifying agents. The arms that rise from the grave insist on raising their decapitated fist in protest. Still, they also insist on seeking bonds of proximity with other arms, caressing, repairing, documenting, snapping, signing, and reading words that give an account of their existence. Enrique Arriaga and Venese Medovich Alcantar will join Naomi for this special event at Fusebox to enhance the spoken word performance and projection by bringing electronic music and dance to the live performance. Two opportunities to catch it at Fusebox Festival! April 18 at 9pm April 19 at 1pm (sold out) Crashbox 5305 Bolm Rd UNIT 12 ticket link in bio graphics by @rolandosepulvedaii

I’m talking with @fuseboxlive ‘s very own@ronberryjr , @outsiderfest ‘s @laura_g_gutierrez , and @collidearts ‘ @parkerstevesounds Watch the livestream, 7-PM on GBTS’ YouTube Channel. There’s a limited release of tickets on With Friends Events or link in GBTS’ bio.

OUTsider is excited to partner with @fuseboxlive to bring Mexican visual artist Naomi Rincón Gallardo to Austin for the first time!! ✨🖤✨ 💥“Versos de porquería” / “Verses of Filth”💥 Naomi is joined by Mexican sound artist Enrique Arriaga and local movement artist Venese Alcantar for a performative screening that intertwines the short film Verses of Filth with live sound, performance and oratory. The title Verses of Filth refers to a pre-Hispanic mortuary chant called Tzocuicatl (chant of filth), which is part of a ritual rife with scatological allusions that accompanies the putrefaction of the body and later its cremation. The purpose of the ritual is to drain the stench and filth from a body and propitiate a catharsis for the pain caused by the death of a loved one. In Verses of Filth, a bastardized Cihuateteo has become a scavenger/seeker digging up wasteland residues: body fragments and cultural debris. Along with a band of vultures, the scavenger recruits a brigade of arms that have been detached from their bodies and underworld creatures seeking touch, pleasure and revolt. In a Mesoamerican episteme, vultures connect the earth with the underworld by sticking their heads into dead bodies. These scavenger birds eat waste, decay and corpses and are considered purifying agents. The arms that rise from the grave insist on raising their decapitated fist in protest. Still, they also insist on seeking bonds of proximity with other arms, caressing, repairing, documenting, snapping, signing, and reading words that give an account of their existence. Curated by @laura_g_gutierrez Two opportunities to catch it: April 18 at 9pm April 19 at 1pm Crashbox at 5305 Bolm Rd, unit 12 Get your tickets!! Link in bio!! Support queer AND decolonial feminist art in Texas!! And consider joining OUTsider’s membership initiative! Another beautiful graphic by @rolandosepulvedaii

Let’s turn up the heat! 🔥 Join us on Sunday, April 26 we’re serving up something real, raw & fresh. 🍽️ Join us @highlandloungeatx for the next ‘FRESH MEAT’ ➡️ Are you an up & coming drag entertainer, new legs on the scene, hungry to be in the lights or just want to showcase your artistic talent on the main stage? 🌟 DM @eileendover.foryou to lock-in your spot to join us on the main stage for a chance to win 🥇 &/or just EAT IT UP! This open stage is open to any/all drag performers — kings, queens or things from any city. Show us what you got & 🔒 in your spot! 👑 Winner receives a booking for a Friday night gig at Highlands, an upcoming booking for an Eileen Dover production & of course, bragging rights. (Winner determined by audience participation 👏) 🌈 In support of OUTsider’s mission to keep queer art in Texas, we’re partnering with @outsiderfest all night long. OUTsider is an Austin-based transmedia nonprofit that celebrates the bold originality and creative nonconformity of the LGBTQ+ communities through the presentation of provocative, overlooked and out-of-the-box film, dance, theater, performance art, music, writing and visual art. • 6PM - Vendor Market begins • 7PM - FRESH MEAT (Showtime) • 10PM - After Dance Party starts 🪩 Stay tuned soon for the April line-up TBA + 🎧 DJ Arlini Martini (@arlinim ) 📸: @twunky.wunky / flyer: @visualsxeileendover #atx #austin #texasdrag #dragentertainer #queer

Laura G. Gutiérrez will be joining Ron Berry, Steve Parker, and our guest host Michael Anthony Garcíafor the twelfth edition of the Gutterblood Talk Show. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get notified when we go live! Link in bio 🔗 Laura G. Gutiérrez is a scholar, curator, and educator based in Austin, Texas. She is Associate Professor of Latinx and Mexican Performance and Visual Studies in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also serves as Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Public Practice in the College of Fine Arts. She has received support from the Getty Research Institute and UT’s Provost Author’s Fellows program for her forthcoming book, Binding Intimacies in Contemporary Queer Latinx Aesthetics. She is the author of Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage and has published widely on performance, visual art, film, and video art. Gutiérrez is the Artistic Director of OUTsider (Austin, TX), where she curates the annual queer and transmedia festival. To get early access to future shows, subscribe to our newsletter to ‘stay in the loop’ 🔁 Photos in slideshow: Legacy Award:Alice Bag-photo: Tony Krash Keioui: Come Hell or High Femmes -photo Sonny Martinez Lou Lou: There are No Words-photo Sonny Martinez Anh Vo: Introjective Exhibition-photo Tony Krash Laura lookin’ like the bad ass she be. Vid-OUTsider 2025 Legacy Award: Julie Tolentino, Escobar, Wood & Lech Mai de Lenguas #GutterbloodTalkShow #ArtCommunity #AustinArt #ArtTalks Special thanks to our sponsors: Laurie and Mark Frick @lauriefrick Dio Traverso @deeyoteevee Ivester Contemporary @ivester_contemporary Resilient Design @resilientdesign.studio Annette Carlozzi @annettedcarlozzi Co-Lab Projects @colabprojectstx

We are proud to present the twelfth edition of the Gutterblood Talk Show. Performance Art in Austin: A Core Sample Monday, April 6 Livestream at 7pm Our guest host Michael Anthony Garcia, a primary and pioneering Austin performance artist and curator, will be joined by and our guests Ron Berry, founder and Artistic Director of the Fusebox Festival, Laura G. Gutiérrez, Artistic Director of the OUTsider Fest, and Steve Parker, a ground breaking and inter-nationally known Austin musician, artist and curator. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get notified when we go live! Link in bio 🔗 The Importance of Performance Art: Performance art is a non-traditional genre that took root early in the twentieth century with the avant-garde movement Dada that erupted in 1916 during the first World War. It was the beginning of what we call today “inter-disciplinary practice” combining elements of visual art, dance, music, theater, film and writing among others to create culturally relevant spectacles and experiences, and directly connecting artists to their audiences. Performance Art doesn’t fit neatly into any one art category or market and transcends mere entertainment. For this reason it’s resistant to the mainstream and challenges assumptions about what art can be. Awareness and support of performance art in Austin was relatively thin compared to Houston and other cosmopolitan centers in the US until the early 2000’s, when alternative spaces instigated on the fringe by artists and their communities began to emerge. Spaces such as Co-Lab Projects, Museum of Human Achievement, MASS Gallery, and Fusebox (which began installing performances in various DIY venues around town in 2005), changed the course of the Austin art scene, and brought it into the global arena of contemporary art. To get early access to future shows, subscribe to our newsletter to ‘stay in the loop’ 🔁 #ArtCommunity #AustinArt #ArtTalks Special thanks to our sponsors: Laurie and Mark Frick @lauriefrick Dio Traverso @deeyoteevee Ivester Contemporary @ivester_contemporary Resilient Design @resilientdesign.studio Annette Carlozzi @annettedcarlozzi @tequila512 Co-Lab Projects @colabprojectstx

A glimpse into some of this yrs @outsiderfest . So thankful to have been able to shoot this brilliant festival again. It’s such a necessary reminder of our collective power and resilience in a world that seems to be destabilizing more and more every day. S/O to @tonykrash for the invite and to every person who puts in the work to make this the most incredible dreamy few days to shoot year after year. ✨💪🏼

Aqui comparto, y ya que estoy compartiendo, toca abrirse ‘tantito”, abrirse es algo que se me dificulta mucho, abrirse ante quién?ante el mundo, ante uno mismo, ante el abismo. Se me abre el corazón en el pecho cuando pienso en estas palabras, levita y escapa. Aquí invito, comparto, un espacio oscuro, un cuarto propio, un rincón de mi mundo donde todo transmuta. Quiero agradecer enormemente a la banda que pudo venir a ver y con quien pude compartir algo tan íntimo como un crecimiento personal llevado a escena. Eternamente agradecido de elevar el corposentir. Ya no comparto más, lo dejó ante su mirada. @nik.oh 📸 @_insekto_ 👠 @arboles_mentirosos 🎶 Y servidores...en escena.

Last hour to Amplify OUTsider! Add #lovetitos to your public comment at checkout for a $25 match. Let’s keep this sweet art dream alive together. Graphic by @rolandosepulvedaii Photo by @tonykrash Performance by @luna__vela