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In collaboration with Marcelo Viana Neto, Kara Stone, Abraham Avnisan, Morgan Thomas, Dorothy Santos, Wynne Greenwood and Adrian Phillips.
Sin Sol/No Sun, 2018 (Still)
Recording of a segment from the augmented reality game, 9 minutes and 25 seconds. Courtesy of the artist.
Download and play Sin sol/No Sun, 2018 here (for iOS).
Artist Statement
My work uses a trans of color poetics to work towards liberation for trans people of color, and to engage people at an affective, emotional level to imagine futures of climate justice. I am an artist and theorist who directs the Critical Realities Studio. My work includes augmented reality, virtual reality, performance, poetry and dance, as well as writing critical, philosophical articles and books expanding on this work as practice-based research. In those mediums, I have explored issues ranging from bodily autonomy for trans people and the limits of humanism (Becoming Dragon), to how artists can work for safety for immigrants (Transborder Immigrant Tool), to considering climate change from an intersectional lens. My works consider the intersections of climate change, colonialism and immigration (Redshift and Portalmetal), the disproportionate impact climate change has on trans people, immigrants and disabled people (Sin Sol). My present work, Oceanic, considers how we can grieve the losses of both people to COVID and places to climate change, while building new trans, queer, abolitionist, feminist futures.
My book Poetic Operations, out now from Duke University Press, proposes algorithmic analysis as a method for developing a trans of color poetics. My co-authored books The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities (2012) and Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs (2010) were published by Atropos Press. I am currently working on her next academic monograph tentatively titled After Man: Fires, Oceans and Androids, as well as a science fiction novel about trans women slipping through realities.
Artist Bio
micha cárdenas, PhD, MFA, (she/her) is an artist, as well as Associate Chair and Associate 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, out now from Duke University Press, proposes algorithmic analysis as a method for developing a trans of color poetics. She is co-editor of the book series Queer/Trans/Digital at NYU Press, with Amanda Philips and Bo Ruberg. She is a first-generation Colombian American. htttp://michacardenas.org
