Friday & Saturday, March 6 & 7
Location: Backspace Gallery, Art Lofts, 111 N Frances St, Madison, WI
An hour and half film screening with limited viewing, three seats available per screening. No food or drinks served.
BLUE NAGA is a Thai interdisciplinary performance artist whose work utilizes videos, installations, sound, and the body to explore how art decolonizes our relationships with memory, history, non-human entities, as well as each other, especially when hegemonic power systems have long distorted our sense of interrelations. Heavily influenced by her time in the social impact sector (previously a project finalist invited to the 2016 UNICEF 3rd high-level meeting), Blue explores the intersection between art and activism and how art can facilitate the full-body listening of subaltern voices.
From an ecofeminist 2-act experimental play about the moon landing from the moon’s perspective at the Washburn Observatory to a performance-installation hybrid celebrating the roles of mothers in how we remember the Vietnam War, Blue’s work challenges normative histories and prompts us to re-examine violence hidden in plain sight. By animating female entities who refuse to forget violence, she subverts patriarchal and colonial strategies of erasure through rituals of remembrance and haunting with site-specific performances, installations, and video art.
Currently a Fine Arts MFA candidate at UW–Madison, her work has been showcased in multiple parts of the world, from London to Dubai, including at the UN Climate Meeting, COP28.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Art MFA Qualifier Exhibition season continues with Blue Naga’s art film screening. The qualifier solo exhibitions are presented by the graduate students during their fourth semester as the evaluation review of their creative work to qualify for advancement in the MFA program. Come view the work and research by our newest cohort of developing artists!