Love, Aswang
May 30-June 29, 2019 at Southern Exposure
Love, Aswang acknowledges past traumas experienced by marginalized communities, transforming the oppressive ways of thinking that have been internalized and habitualized into new, empowering narratives. This project will feature artists and performers of color presenting newly commissioned works that claim space, articulate challenges to historical power inequities, and address the interconnectedness of gentrification, white supremacy, and misogyny as they affect the daily lives of Bay Area POC creative communities. Many of the works in this program draw on media that are often dominated by male artists, while opening up a space to consider personal and collective healing and social justice work as creative practices. They draw on personal and community histories and bodily experiences while resisting the co-optation or fetishization of POC and indigenous identities.
