"Stuck Between the Teeth: Building and Breaking Transoceanic Bonds"

This presentation takes on solidarity as its subject, its object, and its orientation. Using case studies drawn from performances, exhibitions and artist residencies in Chiapas, Berlin, Venice, and the Philippines, I ruminate on the building and breaking of affiliations and affections in institutionalized spaces which imagine themselves as decolonial, feminist, and queer. These actors and spaces operate in/on oceanic geographies, and focus on themes of ecological crisis and Indigenous/Black/queer survivance—though often fall short in their promises for otherwise relations. Wishing to forge ahead with the project of solidarity despite its inevitable dissolutions, I linger with these entities to salvage other ways of living and being on a dying planet.