Pulsing Xquis

a blind folded person amongst weeds in the night

 

A performance interrogating the pressures of queer and marginalized groups through sound and movement

As the third iteration of Pulsing Equis, this movement-sound performance integrates and operationalizes the theoretical philosophies of Audio Intersectionality and Recovecos. Motifs of interior and exterior define this piece and play on themes of the human and non-human. Pulsing Equis speaks to how marginalized peoples navigate a society that relies on "control" to survive. Equis (Spanish for the letter "X"), Lau's alter-ego, is altered by exterior pulsing in the form of manipulated sound.

 

CU AFFILIATION

Department of Ethnic Studies

 

RESIDENCY TYPE

Performance

 

FEATURED B2 TECHNOLOGIES

Ambisonic sound system, large scale projection, sprung floor, greenscreen, audio recording, video recording, livestreaming

 

RESIDENCY DATES

November 28, 2022 - December 9, 2022

 

TAGS

Sound, Embodiment, Anti-Racism, Movement, Trans Futures, Afro Futurisms, Recovecos, Intersectionality

 

Performance Date & Details

When: December 9, 2022, 7pm - 8pm

Where: ATLAS Black Box, B2, Roser ATLAS

Admission: FREE and open to all

  Register Here!

Shawn Trenell O'Neal

CU Affiliation: Department of Ethnic Studies PhD Candidate

Shawn Trenell O’Neal is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies at University of Colorado Boulder, in addition to a renowned DJ and audio producer. His research includes African American studies, Africana studies, musicology, ethnomusicology, queer and trans of color critique, and women of color feminisms. Shawn is a founding member and researcher in Lyripeutics Storytelling: Remixing Our Reality Through Hip Hop Education. He is currently developing an interdisciplinary, and intersectional theoretical concept called Audio Intersectionality (A.I). A.I. are interdisciplinary herstories and histories, active responses, self-narratives, self-defenses, traumas, and celebrations, regarding race, gender, and sexuality communicated through sound, music, and performance. The dissertation title is Audio Intersectionality: Self-Identification Within the Processes of Interdisciplinary Explorations in Sound, Music, and Performance. Shawn O’Neals’ work appears in Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism (2020).

shawn mixing audio in the night

Lau Malaver

CU Affiliation: Department of Ethnic Studies PhD Candidate

Lau is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies and their research focuses on how trans of color and queers of color negotiate their/our identity and embodiment across time and space, and the performance practices of resistance, refusal, and joy that result. Lau advances a new critical theory they call recovecos (Spanish for nooks, hidden turns, and twists), which examines the ways that trans of color embody multiple realities and propose a multi-dimensional analysis of power, and a practical decolonial offering for and not against trans life. Their work appears in Chiricú Journal, Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP/Journal), among others.

lau blind folded looking back at the camera