alejandro t. acierto
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In my work as a queer artist and media maker of color, I produce creative projects, exhibitions, and performances that highlight the impact of colonial legacies across technologies, material culture, and the environment. Often, I engage performance, installation, expanded lens-based media, sound, and artist publications to speak to the inherent entanglements of power embedded within and across infrastructures of knowledge.
Within these investigations, my work is often animated by gestures of failure that attend to the ways disruption and rupture can become productive components that speak to power. Unsophisticated technologies, broken systems, and noisy and/or blurred media become critical components of my work that help trace how these histories are told, the mechanisms of their safekeeping, and the ways history’s ephemera reveal themselves across interfaces.