"Self Portrait as Map of The New World" is an experimental video work that intends to undermine the duality of the subject and the site through a juxtaposition of cartographic and bodily imagery. By comparatively documenting Europe and my own subjugated body as analogies of each other, I attempt to model a kind of queer diasporic mapmaking in which the self is literally disoriented from its location in the body and the nation.
Cited Sources:
My white friend L's voice
the Arno River
Venice, including The Venice Biennale
Rome, including a mass protest in response to the femicide of Giulia Cecchettin
My body, 5 months on estrogen
My sister's hair
A hotel in rural Colombia