Callejera
José Richard Aviles
Friday, March 18, 2022
5pm PT
Free–$50
Callejera is a multimedia art piece that explores the testimony and spatial analysis of the Queer Ethical Subject. Historically, Queer folk, especially Queer folk of color, have been othered and ostracized to edges. It is in those edges, under the pressures of heteronormativity, that queer people have had to self-determine and create what Betsky defines as the “architecture of self. Callejera, spanish for Women of the street, is an homage to the Femmes that learned that the city was their first stage.
5:00pm–5:15pm ET
Exhibition opens
5:15pm–6:00pm ET
Performances by Jose Richard Aviles (NAVEL) and more curated by Yo-Yo Lin
6:00pm–6:45pm ET
Music by DJ heyLove*
Jose Richard Aviles is a multimedia artist, Urban Planner, and Social Worker based out of Los Angeles. As a former organizer, and a current artist, Aviles is interested in the intersections between space and justice, laughter and resistance, and the magic of the stage. Currently, Aviles is promoting their first published collection of poems, Semilla and developing a new poetry EP, "La Carta Que Nunca Envie" , an homage to Juan Gabriel and the countless lovers that are hidden in the lyrics. "Lo que se ve no se pregunta" -Juan Gabriel