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Paradise Portals
Paradise Portals Video installations in Paradise Portals weave together performance documentation, drone footage, livestream video, and green screen technology to create portals between seven performers’ bodies and the environments that hold personal significance for them. Set within the historically preserved industrial space of AREA 405, the projections loop across multiple circular canvases and plexiglass creating…
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Precipice Portal (I, II, III)
Precipice Portal (I, II, III) The Precipice Portal series contemplates the preparation it takes to step through a portal. What will you need to get you to the precipice? A precursor for Red’s Rubys Project “Paradise Portals” that will use portal loops to continually go through openings in performers bodies to whimsical lands of their desire and liberation. “When I…
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Portals Projects
PORTALS Paradise Portals May 2025 Area 405 405 EAST OLIVER STREET, BALTIMORE, MD, 21202 Made with the support of the Rubys Artist Grants and the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation. T-day in the snow portal Prairie Portal (With Nance Klehm) my Portals Projects (including “Paradise Portals that just won the support of the Rubys Grant!) uses…
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Rubys Grant
Rubys Grant To support Paradise Portals, a multimedia performance and installation that uses movement, livestream video, and green screen technology to create portals between performers bodies and environments that hold significance for them, exploring both the visibility and removal of people, history, and the body from the spaces we occupy. The Rubys Artist Grants provide…
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Apocalypse (Ethanol) Portal
Made with engineering help from Grace Wong and Ed Dadey. Steel, welding plastic, machined bearings, audio of ethanol motor Installed at Art Farm Nebraska, 2024
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Sondheim Semi-Finalist
The eleven semifinalists selected for this year’s competition are Aliana Bailey, Amanda Burnham, Andersen Woof, David Page, Eleisha Faith & Tonisha Hope McCorkle (Faith & Hope), Elliot Doughtie, Giulia Livi, Jennifer Reed, Katherine Mann, Kelli Williams, and Rae Red. Their work will be on view from Thursday, September 21 through Sunday, October 1 in the…
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Future’s Future
Future’s Future “Future’s Future” by Rae Red is a multimedia installation and performance using video projection, scrim and visual poetry to explore the future’s future, the great (queer) unknown. We will enter the portal into a world where we get to encounter the ancestors we will become in a time when it is easier to imagine the apocalypse than…
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Skeleton Porn
“Skeleton Porn” uses stop motion animation techniques and green screen technology to depict the intimacy and tenderness of touch frame by frame. The project began as an honoring and offering to queer and trans lives. It seeks to comment on the fact that as trans people, we are often defined by the way we fuck…
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House Show
“House Show” – A body is a house a house is a body. A solo performance using overhead projector, movement and song to tell the story of making a body feel like home through healing from top surgery while simultaneously fixing the crumbling walls of a house to make a home. We all need continual…
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AIR Mass MoCA
Artist in Residence MAY 17TH – MAY 30TH, 2023 photos by Carolina Porras-Monroy
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QUEER. FUTURES. PAST:
Queer. Futures. Past. “Queer. Futures. Past.” is a multimedia ritual performance and installation. An offering to the LGBTQ+ community of Baltimore City to collectively explore notions of queer lineage by summoning spirits of the past in order to see into the future. “Queer Futures Past.” examines personal and inherited queer erasure. Rae Red, Cliff Doby,…
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I’m a Ghost and So are You
I’m a Ghost and So are You. “I am Ghost and So Are You” is a multimedia performance project examining personal and inherited queer erasure and ancestry. Rae Red creates an offering to address their secret, ignored, and partially imagined queer lineage through animation, movement and song. Using a a loose string of facts about…
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