Pájaro Falling (self-portraits, 2018)

Site-specific performances, blood, water, dirt, transparent plastic tarp, red scrubs, green military uniform, greenhouse. Digital C-prints. 30 x 40 inch. 

Pájaro Falling is a series of site-specific performances navigating my entanglements with contact, conflict, and violence. I use a transparent plastic tarp, my own blood, the nude body, a militant uniform, and movement to engage and recycle ideas of visibility, death, and traps. Investigating Jose Esteban Muñoz’s theory of “disidentification,” that positions queer world making on, with, and against dominant ideology, I disidentify with the militant and the conditions of being queer and Cuban. Contending what and who has the implied right to camouflage and concealment to disarticulate colonial discourses of authority. As I fail and fall within Cubanidad, this series of self-portraits documents performances that point to the intersection of my identity, affect, and the violence that results from misalignment with the cultural and ideological mainstream.