title: bearded flamingos: on passing, migration, and camouflage

media: lecture-performance, 3d animation, artist book

duration/dimensions: various

year: 2017-2018

context: ‘bearded flamingos: on passing, migration, and camouflage’ is a visual art and writing project that explores identity through the imagined icon of the bearded flamingo. the project rests at the intersection of (post)colonial and (post)human studies, exploring notions of ‘passing’, ‘migration’ and ‘camouflage’ as strategies of survival. imagining the bearded flamingo as an augmented self that can play with temporality, watch but not be watched, and fly across/over/under/around borders, the project attempts to reinvent (rather than reverse) hegemonic conditions to offer space to the self, my self, the non-binary queer immigrant of color. the artist book can be accessed at the joan flasch artists’ book collection