Join queer artists Liz Harvey and dani lopez in conversation about their respective textile-based practices that engage with bringing a queer lens to the overlooked as they renegotiate the past and look towards a liberatory future.
Harvey uses embroidery in relation to the body in collaborative performances to collapse differences between the human and not-human, embodying experiences of plant-ness.
lopez uses weaving and sewing to create works that explore regret and redemption as she reinvents her closeted queer youth as an out loud one.
The artists will show, discuss, and dialogue about their work, having a conversation about how their work engages with queerness in myriad and layered ways.
Link to Zoom pasted below; this is an open invitation event, all are welcome.
Many of you know Liz Harvey - she joined us last year with Leeza Doreian and her Mending Collective project. She has also been working on a performance project, “the lost ones.”
The piece is the subject of an article in Feral Fabric, titled The Queer Ecologies of Liz Harvey by Samantha Lyons. The question is, “What does it mean to have an embodied experience of plant-ness?” Liz says, “The process of working on this piece has been a strange, queer, generative, and expansive journey.”
Fig. 1 the lost ones, Plan-d Gallery and the Los Angeles River, Los Angeles, CA, 2019, Liz Harvey
tell me that love isn’t true, Handwoven cotton yarn and novelty hand cut fabrics, 36 in. x 108 in., 2019, dani lopez