Queer Interventions

Artist led Interactive Session

PAMM and Frost Science Bus Parking, Pérez Art Museum Miami, 1103 Biscayne Blvd | Transportation Options

Queer Interventions, is an interactive platform to generate open dialog on queer visibility, identity and inclusion activated through participatory relational activities. Led by Laurencia Strauss and Ricardo E. Zulueta, the session presents public art projects that highlight queer normative methodologies in order to shed light on pressing socio-political issues in the era of neoliberalism. Conducted in and around the Queer Nomadic Meeting Hub mobile camper, this session serves as a communal site for sharing strategies with the potential for radical change. More specifically, the artists’ manifesto aims to compensate for the erasure of Miami’s queer history(ies) by activating and deploying their migratory public space as a “safe site” available to all regardless of gendered or geographic boundaries.

Laurencia Strauss is an interdisciplinary artist based in Miami whose socially-based landscape experiments provoke our sense of interdependence locally and globally. Working in the context of sea level rise, her performative actions and participatory projects navigate hope and doom, spanning environmental activism and anticipatory climate change grief.

Ricardo E. Zuluetais an interdisciplinary artist and writer currently living and working in Miami who addresses the conflicts that arise from the effects of surveillance and tracking, social media and privacy and data algorithms and identity. He utilizes digital imagery, video, performance and installation to queer technological conditions of globalization in an attempt to blur national and hemispheric borders and defy linear narratives. He is the author of the book, “Queer Art Camp Superstar: Decoding the Cinematic Cyberworld of Ryan Trecartin” (2018).