OUR PRESENCE IS OUR RESILIENCE

Jamaica

Conceived in Kingston and shot in the city’s Waterfront area in October 2020, Our presence is our resilience is a bold declaration of defiance and power that illuminates how Jamaican queer and trans folx have turned their passion for fashion into an exhilarating form of activism.

Informed and inspired by style magazines and the fight for justice for black trans lives in Jamaica and beyond, Emani Edwards, Kyym Savage and their team have created images that speak to the faith and fierceness of taking up space.

INVERTED PRISM

Argentina

Curated by Lisa Kerner and Violeta Uman (FAQ – Festival de Arte Queer) , Prisma Invertido (Inverted Prism) is a multidisciplinary project where different artists, who have never worked together, are offered a platform and support to create an audiovisual project. Diverse combinations of aesthetics and discourses will be the result of their propositions in music, film and literature.

EME (Peru)
SUSY SHOCK (Argentina)
MARINA MATHEY (Brazil)
DELFINA MARTINEZ (Uruguay)

EME, Susy Shock, Marina Mathey and Delfina Martinez will develop a collaborative musical, poetic and textual project, discussing the production of folk and traditional music with the travesti and non-binary experience perspective in Latin America.

The project will consist of creative encounters aiming the creation of lyrics and songs that will result in videos and live streams.

DECOLONISING LOVE

Canada (Turtle Island)

Anishnaabe multiartist and dancer Brian Solomon and Canadian-Jamaican actor Daniel Ellis will take an artistic journey investigating the idea of Decolonising Love.

The project will question the colonial mind’s patterns that rule love, affection and intimacy.

ENTRE PAREDES

Brazil

Entre Paredes (Between Walls) will commission projections and visual interventions on the walls of the city of São Paulo in collaboration with queer collectives of poetry, literature and spoken word from Brazil, the Americas, UK and Middle East.

The project will bringing together queer poetics from different perspectives and experiences around the world and result in both a live performance and an audiovisual piece.