The Stamp Gallery presents "alternate universe: visualizing queer futurisms"
February 02, 2022
The Stamp Gallery presents "alternate universe: visualizing queer futurisms" Camila Tapia-Guilliams and micha cárdenas
THE STAMP GALLERY PRESENTS
alternate universe: visualizing queer futurisms
Camila Tapia-Guilliams and micha cárdenas
Feb 10 - April 6, 2022
Virtual Opening Toast
Thursday, February 10, 2022, 6:00 PM ET
RSVP at stamp.umd.edu/galleryreception
Closing Reception - TBD
Free and Open to the Public
micha cárdenas
Camila Tapia-Guilliams
College Park, MD. This spring the Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland, College Park, presents alternate universe: visualizing queer futurisms, a two-person exhibition featuring artwork by Camila Tapia-Guilliams and micha cárdenas. On view February 10 through April 6, 2022, this curated exhibition places themes of speculative futures, queerness, gender, and survival in conversation with our current world. A juxtaposition of different mediums and focuses, from augmented reality artwork, game design and trans of color theory, to mixed-media and cooperative and anti-capitalist work, alternate universe ultimately engages in the questions: What are the responses to the current state of our universe, our Earth, our world as queer/queered people? And how do we create and build alternate universes to survive?
Curated by Marjorie Antonio ‘22
In conjunction with this exhibition, there will be a workshop on mixed media and cooperative arts communities with Camila Tapia-Guilliams and a virtual artist talk by micha cárdenas. Dates and details are forthcoming.
This exhibition and programming is supported by the Immersive Media Design Program (imd.umd.edu), The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (wgss.umd.edu), University Libraries (lib.umd.edu), STAMP Events (stamp.umd.edu), and the Maryland State Arts Council (msac.org).
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
micha cárdenas, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Performance, Play & Design, and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she directs the Critical Realities Studio. Her book Poetic Operations, forthcoming from Duke University Press, proposes algorithmic analysis as a method for developing a trans of color poetics. cárdenas’s co-authored books, The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities (2012) and Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs (2010), were published by Atropos Press. She is co-editor of the book series Queer/Trans/Digital at NYU Press, with Amanda Philips and Bo Ruberg. She is a member of the artist collective Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0. She is a first generation Colombian American.
Camila Tapia-Guilliams (they.them) is a mixed media artist, educator, and community organizer. Weaving together narratives of social sustainability, cooperation, and the solidarity economy, Camila’s art also explores their identities as a Latine, chronically ill, queer, non-binary person. They created and led the Cooperative Arts Cohort, and are the Co-Lead on the Community Team for Anticapitalism for Artists. They currently work at the Phillips Collection in Community Engagement and are collaborating with other creatives on starting a worker-owned arts cooperative. Camila graduated in 2019 from the University of Maryland, College Park, where they were a worker-owner of the Maryland Food Collective. Their work has been featured in a variety of DC-MD-VA galleries and on the cover of the Washington Socialist. Further, they have organized events, classes, and exhibitions in conjunction with numerous arts collectives. You can find out more about Camila and their projects on their Instagram @byunnaturalcauses.
ABOUT THE GALLERY
Located on the first floor of the Adele H. Stamp Student Union—Center for Campus Life at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Stamp Gallery is dedicated to exhibiting contemporary art, especially the work of emerging and mid-career artists. The Stamp Gallery supports contemporary art that is challenging, academically engaging, and attuned to broad community and social issues. Through meaningful exhibitions and programming, the Gallery offers outside-of-the-classroom experiential learning opportunities. It functions as a laboratory where emerging artists and curators experiment and work through their ideas. The Gallery’s programming aims to emphasize the importance of process to contemporary artistic practice and to provide a forum for dialogue.
FREE and open to the public. Spring Hours: Mondays–Thursdays: 10 am – 8 pm, Fridays: 10 am – 5 pm, Saturdays: 11 am – 5 pm, Sundays: Closed.
More information: thestamp.umd.edu/gallery