People of LOS ANGELES: @lam_fidelia’s New seed. XXXXXX. New seed. XXXXXX. is up at @humanresourcesla through July 31st! The show “grapples with the affective and aesthetic legacies of empire and colonialism as they continue to shape the racial architectures of Asian diasporic femme subjectivities. The exhibition features new multimedia works that speak to, with, and nearby speculative ancestral figures, drawing on Anne Anlin Cheng’s theory of ornamentalism to create sites for grieving, honoring, and queering modes of synthetic personhood.” We’re so excited about this show and reached out to Fidelia to learn more about it. Here’s the context for the work you’ll see at @humanresourcesla: “My PhD program is a practice-based PhD, which means our primary output is creative work. This show is the result of the research and reading I’ve been doing and will serve as the basis for the written portion of my PhD! The works emerge out of critical engagement with what it means + how it feels to be an Asian/femme/diaspora queer (within the understanding that all those categories are constantly being constituted and are inherently unstable) within and in relation to various cultural institutions that shape how we understand this mode/model of being — whether it’s academia, film/cinema, fashion, new media, etc.” First photo: still from when stillness culminates (2022), interactive installation Second + third photos: both taken by @lam_fidelia during installation this weekend! #multimediaartist #fidelialam #humanresourcesla #anneanlincheng