Art making as an act of resistance, balancing the personal with the political, crossfitting as a queer and trans person, and taking up space with Oli Rodriguez

Flex Your Heart Radio

English - April 28, 2017 10:00 - 50 minutes - 69.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
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Welcome to Flex Your Heart Radio! This podcast is about body, fat and gender positivity, fitness, feminism, recovery, risk, and crushing it at life.

On this episode, we talk to artist, professor, queer thought leader, and all around angel, Oli Rodriguez!

Oli Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary artist working in video, photography, performance, installation and writing. Currently, he is faculty in the Photography Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). His projects conceptually intersect and dialogue on topics of consent, queerness, childhood and sexuality. His exhibition, The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics at SAIC was the first explicitly queer show at the institution. He also authored The Papi Project, which archives the AIDS pandemic through his queer POC family in Chicago during the 1980’s.

Oli has screened, performed, lectured, and exhibited his works internationally and nationally. He is a true angel, and I can't wait for you to hear our talk.

In this podcast we discuss:

-The Papi Project- where this project came from, how making it affected him, and where he sees it going - Art making in a fascist regime, using art making as an act of resistance - Balancing the personal with the political when leading a classroom - Acadamia's flawed employment systems, working the adjunct professor hustle as a means of survival - Crossfitting as a queer and trans person - Negotiating trans masculine pregnancy in environments that aren't specifically queer ---

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