About this Event
Indigena Collective presents INTERTIDAL: BEYOND BINARIES, in collaboration with Artspace and Isabel Lu on Sunday, May 19th from 2–4pm at Artspace in downtown Raleigh. This reading will feature queer creatives in the community and highlight's Isabel's solo exhibition Your Ocean Is On Fire on view at Artspace May 3 - June 30.
The intertidal zone is the area of a seashore which is covered at high tide and uncovered at low tide. We are reimagining this zone as a metaphor to push past the gender binary—and to examine how queerness is a space-between that is constantly shifting: sometimes uncovered, sometimes hidden, and always ever-expanding.
This event will be free and open to the public! Please wear a mask.
More About Indigena Collective
INDIGENA COLLECTIVE is a reading series & platform for marginalized creatives in the community organized by Ina Cariño. Ina Cariño is a 2022 Whiting Award winner with an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears in the American Poetry Review, the Margins, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Magazine, the Paris Review Daily, Waxwing, New England Review, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman fellow and is the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for Feast, forthcoming from Alice James Books in March 2023. In 2021, Ina was selected as one of four winners of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest.
More about Artspace
Artspace is a non-profit visual arts center located in Downtown Raleigh. Visit Artspace to explore exhibitions featuring national and community artists, engage with more than 35 artists working in their studios, and enjoy art classes and community events for all ages and abilities. To learn more about Artspace, visit artspacenc.org
More about Isabel Lu
Isabel Lu was a North Carolina Emerging Artist in Residence at Artspace in 2023. Their work explores ridiculous and consequential moments of self-exploration. By redefining Traditional Chinese Medicine theories and practices, Isabel looks at their relationship to their body and asexuality. In many of Isabel’s paintings, they enjoy the silliness and seriousness of using food as a meaningful symbol of objectification and ownership.
About Your Ocean Is On Fire
“Your Ocean is on Fire” is a collection of portraits, letters, and herbs that reflect on objectification, identity, and internal turmoil through the lens of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Neither Eastern nor Western perspectives provided me with ‘answers’, but they offered guidance to find recognition and relief while we remain unresolved.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Artspace, 201 East Davie Street, Raleigh, United States
USD 0.00
