Thea Quiray Tagle, PhD

Happy Pride, beloveds ✊🏽🌈 I am so honored to share with you this audio tour of AIDS activism and memory in New York City, a project spearheaded by Lola Flash @flashnine9 and just published by @themuseumofmodernart Magazine. I am the “young one” adding a different generational perspective on AIDS memory, but you must listen to the five legendary artist-activists whose stories and experiences are moving beyond measure: Lola Flash, Pamela Sneed @pamela_sneed , Agosto Machado; Aldo Hernandez @aldo.h.hernandez , and Idris Mignott @eye_mignott . This is truly an honor of a lifetime to be included here in any way! Link in bio and here: /magazine/articles/1222 AIDS isn’t over. Act up. Fight back. 🌹

Thrilled that this issue of Verge is finally out in the world! A couple of years ago @laura.kina invited me to contribute to a roundtable on critical curatorial practice. After many shifts brought about by the pandemic, other crises, and just life under global capitalism, it’s now here as a three-part series of short reflections on curation as a decolonial practice. I am proud to get this short piece on what I’ve been calling “relational curation” out in the world, as the longer piece still needs to find the right publication home. I reflect on the experience of curating AFTER LIFE (what remains) at @thealicegallery in 2018 and AFTER LIFE (we survive) at YBCA in 2020-21 and the lessons I continue to learn from the incredible artists and art workers who exceed the limitations of the institution. I’m happy to be in the company of @alexachang2000 and Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis whose work is also so inspiring. Please message me if you’re having trouble accessing the journal online.

Hi everyone. Made a public Instagram account for all things curatorial and research related, as well as to amplify and share the work of others! For new followers: hi. You might have found me through AFTER LIFE (we survive), a show I’ve curated now up in person and online @ybca . The themes of the #afterlifeybca show— or how artists can help us envision more just futures for our BIPOC and LGBTQ communities in the midst of ecological collapse and other forms of slow and spectacular violence— pretty much sums up the work I am most invested in doing, whether it’s in the classroom, or writing on the page, or helping present through public exhibitions. Let’s build the futures we want to see, together. You can follow me here and learn more at Photo by erina c. alejo

Full of art from this past weekend! 1. @dorianwoodmusic album release at Joe’s Pub 2. Erwin Wurm @lehmannmaupin 3. @sanfordbiggers at @jackshainman 4. @iminyeh minis seen at @printcenternewyork 5. Giuseppe Penone @diaartfoundation 6-7. King Cobra @sikkemamalloyjenkins 8. @sheidajanam at Yancey Richardson 9. Pacita Abad @tinakimgallery 10. @bilnaes_ album release hosted by @djsagainstapartheid at Honey 11. Great print show of Indian devotional lithos at The Met 12. The homies at @catalina_schliebener ’s show at 20 Jay

Happy 40th Birthday, @mitlistarts 🎈 Last night’s opening of Performing Conditions (curated by @natalie_m_ball and @pangea.girl ) and today’s performance of M_ _ _ _ER by @autkni with a bday party designed by @nayland.blake were just delightful! ✨

Eric-Paul Riege: ojo|-|ólǫ́ is now open @henryartgallery ! Thank you to all the friends and chosen family who made the opening weekend so special. I am so honored to have worked with @ericpaulriege , @ngbozicnik and the Bell and Henry teams for the past three years to realize these two shows. Up next: the beautiful artist book being designed with @luminositylabdesign ! ✨✨✨

Seattle! I can’t wait to celebrate the opening of @ericpaulriege ’s solo show at @henryartgallery with you this weekend! Friday night opening and Saturday performance followed by an artist talk with me and @ngbozicnik ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 #Repost @henryartgallery with @use.repost ・・・ 🥂Join us to celebrate the public opening of Eric-Paul Riege: ojo|-|ólǫ́ at the Henry! Be among the first to experience Eric-Paul Riege: ojo|-|ólǫ́, the artist’s largest solo exhibition to date. Featuring sculpture, textiles, collage, and video, the exhibition draws on Diné cultural memory and examines the (re)production of Indigeneity. Come curious. Leave inspired. A no-host bar and music by KEXP DJ Kevin Sur round out the night. 🗓️ Friday, April 3, 7-9 PM 🎟️ Free, donations welcome. RSVP encouraged via the link in our bio! #AtTheHenry #FreeEvent #MuseumOpening #SeattleMuseum

¡Agosto Machado, presente! I am so sad to hear that dear Agosto has joined the ancestors, and feel so blessed to have spent time last year with him and @flashnine9 sharing stories of queer New York. Please see his gorgeous and powerful altares now on view at the Whitney Biennial and learn about him through Lola’s beautiful walking tour online: /magazine/articles/1222

This poetry book by Gwen Aube is a fucking stunner, y’all. This is trans joy, rage, love, hope, nihilism… it is incredible. And for a real lesson in ekphrasis… I’ve never been so invested in Klimt before now! So so glad to have picked up a copy at AWP last week. @gwendolyssa

Thank you to everyone who came to the opening of Prisoners of Love (Until the Sun of Freedom) at The Bell this past Thursday. Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas have gifted us all this incredibly important work, and I hope you are able to experience it while you can. I am also glad for this brave coverage of the exhibition and the linkages this journalist makes between global struggles against militarism, carceral regimes, and fascism. Thank you, Chadd Scott. Link in bio. @ruanne.ar @basel.abb @katekraczon

This coming Thursday Feb. 19 at The Bell. Please join us— this is truly one of the most gorgeous, hopeful, heartbreaking, and sonically powerful installations I have ever experienced in my life. Thank you @basel.abb and @ruanne.ar for making this work and for trusting @katekraczon and me to shepherd this show for its US debut. #Repost @bellgallerybrown with @use.repost ・・・ Join artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme in conversation with curators Kate Kraczon and Thea Quiray Tagle to celebrate the opening of “Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom.” Featuring interviews with former political prisoners made on location in Palestine, “Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom” celebrates poetry, music, and art as forms of expressing individual and collective survivance within systems of incarceration across time and space. Doors to the gallery will open at 4 pm. A reception in the List Lobby will follow the conversation. Free and open to the public.

Join us for an opening celebration on the evening of Thursday, February 19; doors will open at 4pm, followed by an artist talk and reception from 6-9pm. ••• The Bell / Brown Arts Institute premieres the newest project from internationally-renowned sound, video, and installation artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Featuring interviews with former political prisoners made on location in Palestine, “Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom” celebrates poetry, music, and art as forms of expressing individual and collective survivance within systems of incarceration across time and space. Using strategies of opacity and fragmentation, Abbas and Abou-Rahme incorporate concrete, fabric, and weathered steel—carceral architecture—as the projection surfaces of this sound and video installation to build, in the artists’ words, “a vast counter-archive to document Palestinian life.” “Enemy of the Sun” (1970), by acclaimed Palestinian poet Samih Al-Qasim, foregrounds the installation; this poem was mis-attributed to Black Panther George Jackson and memorialized in the Black Panther newspaper following his 1971 murder in San Quentin prison. Found handwritten in Jackson’s cell, the poem evokes the long relationship between Black political prisoners in the United States and Palestinian political prisoners.