La Tierra Tuya Es Una Digna Sepultura
Schedule
Mon Jun 28 2021 at 04:30 am
Location
Mary's, Naturally | Houston, TX
The Houston-based performance group Los Performeros, present La Tierra Tuya Es Una Digna Sepultura (Jessica Gonzalez, Veronica Gaona, and Erick Zambrano) in which by virtue of collective memory, history, and Tierra, a once solidly engineered parking lot transmutes into past, present, and future forms of itself (excavated to find the breath of its haunting.) The resulting development serves as a vector signaling a sanctified space of resistance against capitalist and colonialist erasure under the guise of progress and expansion.“We envisioned la Tierra as a public space that respects the existing context, weaving together community gathering spaces and porous buildings that welcome neighbors and guests.” Los Performeros said in a release.
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http://withoutarchitecture.site/
The first brick thrown at Stonewall — what has become the origin myth for the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement signals, by way of the brick — the essential tooled apparatus of architecture, a radical indigeneity in queer engagement with the built environment. Today, the “gayborhood,” as it exists under late capitalism, is a commodity fetish on display exhibiting and marketing queerness as state-oriented activism and testifying to the depoliticization of LGBTQ+ people under a neoliberal rubric of “gay rights.” Rainbow-packaged Oreos and other late capitalism tokens re-frame the Stonewall riots' initial obstruction into a sterilized history.
without architecture, there would be no stonewall; without architecture, there would be no “brick” is a curatorially driven series of actions by a group of multidisciplinary artists whose practices are rooted in critiquing the convergence of politics and the built environment. The series draws from the unrecorded history of Mary’s Naturally, a legendary Houston gay bar and one of the oldest in Texas by the time of its permanent closing in November 2009. From Houston’s “Stonewall equivalent” to a “coffeehouse with gourmet, barista-made drinks, home-baked goods & light fare in an industrial space,” Mary’s redevelopment is a revealing allegory exposing the politics embedded within the built environment of the gay village. The exhibition series is set to occur every June at the former Mary’s outback, now a paved parking lot, running alongside the citywide and national gay pride month commemoration of the Stonewall uprising. The continual reactivation of the site also recalls and functions as a continuation of early AIDS mourning practices and works to materialize, if only briefly, the inscribed trauma of what we cannot see. The Gulf Coast Archive and Museum of GLBT History estimates that as many as 300 people were laid to rest or had their ashes scattered at the exhibition site.
without architecture, there would be no stonewall; without architecture, there would be no “brick” is presented by Junior Fernandez and S Rodriguez with support from the Station Museum of Contemporary Art and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.