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Location: Chicago
Website: www.Kiam-Marcelo-Junio.com
Kiam Marcelo Junio (preferred gender pronoun: "they/their/them”) is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist creating work through photography, video, installation, performance, and hybrid forms. Their research and art practice centers around queer identities, Philippine history and the Filipino diaspora, American imperialism, the politics of visibility, and social justice through collaborative processes and healing modalities. Kiam served seven years in the US Navy as a Hospital Corpsman. They were born in the Philippines, and have lived in the U.S., Japan, and Spain.
FILIPINO FUSIONS: A CRITICAL COOKBOOK is the capstone project for my yearlong digital artist residency program with Inside the Artist’s Kitchen. We began by creating a webshow in which my performative alter-ego, Jerry Blossom, made vegan versions of traditional Filipino food. We collected the recipes along with interviews, essays, artwork, poetry, and contributions by artists, expanding the dialogue around Filipino culture and history, and personal views and effects of the Filipino diaspora.
Visit the Indiegogo campaign to donate and pre-order the book, to be released in early 2016.
FILIPINO FUSIONS: A CRITICAL COOKBOOK (2016)
a collaboration with Burning Orchid
filmed at ACRE Residency
Steuben, WI
2015
