Artists in Residence
In 2019, OUTsider launched an Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program intended to further the mission of the organization by supporting (BIPOC) LGBTQ+ artists whose resources are limited or whose livelihoods are endangered.
Currently, our Artist-in-Residence is chosen by our core curatorial team from among past programmed OUTsider artists who are up-and-coming and who have been working under precarious or under-resourced conditions.
MEET OUR ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Mirrored Fatality (2024-2025)
mirrored fatality is an underground interdependent Kapampangan and South Asian xenotransbinary experimental and healing noise queer punk farmer duo sharing their rituals + altars. mirrored fatality creates their “cocoon webs” combining performance art, music, spoken word, film, photography, painting, drawing, upcycled garments, anti-imperialist education, and healing justice practice spaces to mobilize a warrior community responding to transnational calls-to-action for mutual aid, land sovereignty, and prison abolition.
Felix Flores (2022-2023)
Felix and the Future
Felix and the Future presents Conquest of a Pink Planet! Holy Hands Vol. 2 is the debut full length album from Mexican-American Artist, Felix and the Future. Felix and the Future is a runaway. He leaves Earth looking for home in Outer Space, where Holy Hands Vol. 2, begins. The songs are the soundtrack to his memories searching for false idols and prophets. He confronts characters, like Karen, who set the tone for the album.
Jesus Valles (2021-2022)
(Un)Documents
“A question that I always ask myself when I’m performing (Un)Documents is: ‘How are you going to live with the discomfort that the very systems and things that have protected you are also the very things that are putting you and your communities [at risk] and that might eventually threaten to destroy you as well?,’” Valles explains. “I think for the audience, my biggest question is: ‘What are you willing to do to help to dismantle these systems? What are you willing to do to challenge these systems? And I think there is a space that asks the other members of the audience, ‘How do we heal from the trauma of empire? How do we heal from the trauma of citizenship? What does that healing mean?’” (spectrumsouth.com)