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Trouble Score

November 12, 2025

Image description: Two performers stand close to each other, eyes looking upward pensively between beams of blue light, filled with swirling haze. One reaches her fingers into the light, like dipping into another realm.

Magic Realism // Myth // Ritual Part ritual, part pop concert, Trouble Score is a hallucinatory portrait of family myth refracted through the lens of magic realism. Weaving multi-layered text, vocals, sound samples, and live […]

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La utopía de la mariposa / TIERRA

November 12, 2025

Image description: A collage of two images. First: Outdoors in a field of long grasses against a glowing dusk sky, a lone performer pours a basket of rose petals over his upturned face. His flat chest is bare, and he wears a full skirt of gold brocade and lace. Second: Light pours into the windows of an empty wooden-framed barn, illuminating the silouette of a performer dressed in the a lush dress and matching overcoat made of pale lace. Facing away, the figure holds the garment open, letting the light shine through the delicate cloth.

Queerness // Land // Resistance Two visionary films featuring Lukas Avendaño—an internationally acclaimed performance artist and leading voice of the Muxe community in Oaxaca’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec—trace the intersections of body, land, and resistance within […]

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Bardaje

November 06, 2025

Image description: A solo performer is caught mid-movement, his head turned sideways and body curved. His striking attire leaves much of his tan skin exposed. He wears sleeves adorned with ayoyotes, which are ancestral seeds that rattle, a long beaded turquoise necklace looped many times around his neck, and a white loin cloth. His long hair, worn in a ponytail that streams forward from the top of his head, as well as his skin and attire, are covered with an uneven layer of pale ash.

Embodiment // Resistance // Ancestry Rooted in Zapotec understandings of muxheidad, Bardaje reanimates a word used to enforce difference with the gestures, memories, and cosmologies it once pushed to the margins. The work emerges from […]

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