The Unreliable Narrator: I Prefer Not to be Named
@ CAMOC| Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, June 29th, from 2PM - 3PM
CAMOC is pleased to host “The Unreliable Narrator: I Prefer Not to be Named,” presented by olivier, a Chicago-based visual artist, writer, and archives worker, on Saturday, June 29, 2024, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM.
We invite you to join us for this performative lecture, where olivier interweaves the self, ufology (the study of UFO’s), and queer & trans theory, to navigate the present, future, and realms beyond.
By collaging book text, image, and film footage to articulate spaces where their temporal investigations and metaphors converge, olivier’s work delves into the void between textual gaps. Their research encompasses the interplay between fantasies of UFOs, cryptid hybridity, and the contours of queer construction.
Bio:
olivier is a research-based artist+writer and archives worker. They speak Cantonese at home with their demonic cat. Their practice is rooted in the ephemerality and anarchival in queer and trans theory and ufology. They toy with poetics and semiotics, caress languaging and linguistics, and draw with speculative projects, artists’ books, videos, performative lectures, happenings, and surveys… and lead a secret mail art practice. olivier holds an MA in visual and critical studies. Born and raised in British Hong Kong, they are now temporarily floating in the rivers of Chicago. For the past decade, their time machine has been stuck in this dimension. So it goes.
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