Rogelio López
Kevin Gaytán
Matthew Han

7pm @ VORTEX MAIN

You know that thing? When you feel like you can never be yourself because the "NORM" says you are too Gay and too Mexican, so they just cast you aside like a glittery sombrero? This piece is very that. Foxes, Bunnies, Femme Boys, Oh My! Are the travelers Entre Despierto y Dormido. A new work by Rogelio Lopez and Dancers. Fantasies, anxieties, and a floral print merge on a search for an essential essence that has been shamed away. A search that feels futile because the “self” has been stripped, replaced, and tweaked so often that authenticity exists merely as a concept. This piece is an outpouring cry of a person who has put to sleep so much of himself in order to “succeed” in a society that constantly reminds him that he doesn't belong.

Clara Jubilee
Perpetual Oyster

9pm @ VORTEX TENT

The only live brand in Austin, GOOD POLLUTION, started as a corporate art collective that no one wanted to join so the founding girl bosses, Clara Jubilee and Perpetual Oyster, remain the only members. Their iconic sound can only be described as hyper-capitalist dream pop that incorporates the synergy of hauntological dulcet tones, breathy laissez-faire vocals, and Raytheon-inspired droning. Their mission in life is to combat bad pollution by creating the kind of pollution they want to see in the world. Become a member today! We have nothing to lose but our brains.

11am - 1pm @ OUThouse
(3702 Robinson Avenue)

Moderator: Curran Nault

Panelists: Aquarius Funkk, M. Lamar, Paul Soileau, mango gwen and samar saif (Mirrored Fatality)

Queer liberation has been and continues to be a long, hard and painful struggle that is often difficult to sustain due to homophobia, transphobia, sexism, cisheternonormativity, anti-Black and anti-indigenous violent practices. There is repression and pushback, fatigue, and/or loss of momentum. This session centers queer joy as a possible tool to sustain the political work that we do towards that liberation. How do we sustain queer joy with and alongside pain, anger, and other negative affects? When do we just rest?

co-sponsored by LGBTQ Studies at UT

2pm - 3:30pm @ UT Austin Winship Building 2.112

Overview and Artist Talk with creator Micaela Tobin and collaborators Jay Carlon & Carlo Maghirang

Join the creative team behind this new, modular opera as they discuss their process and play of building work together in the Filipinx Diaspora.

A displaced God walks a foreign and unfamiliar land, looking for liberation beyond the Empire of the Sun. But what is beyond the horizon, and who has walked this path before?

APOLAKI: OPERA OF THE SCORCHED EARTH is a new experimental opera by Filipino-American composer Micaela Tobin in collaboration with installation designer Carlo Maghirang and dancer/choreographer Jay Carlon. Continuing her celebration of the pre-colonial mythologies of the Philippines, Tobin’s new work tells the story of Apolaki, the precolonial God of Sun and War, who finds themself lost in a foreign and unfamiliar land (present day Tongva Land/Los Angeles) after being displaced from the Philippines by Spanish colonizers. This opera is a radical meditation on the complex relationships between settler colonialism, migration, and diaspora, and invites the audience to join Apolaki in this immersive pilgrimage, premiering at the historic and storied Zorthian Ranch overlooking the Los Angeles Basin.

co-sponsored by the Brockett Center, Department of Theatre and Dance

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi

7pm @ VORTEX MAIN

Join acclaimed Israeli-American poet Complicity Huffman for an evening celebrating the release of her new collection, Untitled Nobel Prize Submission. A deeply felt collection of poems that finds the beauty of everyday moments in a troubled region, Untitled Nobel Prize Submission speaks to everyone and asks at its heart a simple question: can there not be peace, if only we love one another? Complicity will a selection of new and old work and speak about her process, legacy, and lessons learned from decades of writing for peace.

The event will be introduced by amateur writer Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, an Arab.

Priscilla Hale
Chale Nafus
Sandra Martínez
Susan Post

9pm @ Cheer Up Charlies
(900 Red River Street)

For OUTsider 2024 we’re bringing the Legacy Award HOME to honor our ANCESTRAL LGBTQ+ SPACEMAKERS!

Without fabulous spacemakers like these, Austin would be a MUCH less colorful and queerdo space!

Collectively they have forged havens for subsequent LGBTQ+ generations to live, love, learn, dream and gayyyyyy it up!

Time for us to pay our RESPECTS to these Ancestral LGBTQ+ Spacemakers!

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11am - 1pm @ OUThouse
(3702 Robinson Avenue)

Moderator: Enzo Vasquez Toral

Panelists: Ajani Brannum, Rosemary Candelario, Jay Carlon, Anya Cloud, Makisig Akin

This session centers the human body, in all its capacities and all its limits to map onto queer history/histories. In more specific terms, we are interested in centering corporeal movement as a mode of storytelling, a technology of human expression, and/or a tactic of societal shattering to determine how they queerly attach to different geographies. How does movement work as its own path, method, and vehicle for knowledge-making and meaning-making for queer and trans communities?

co-sponsored by LGBTQ Studies at UT

Ajani Brannum

In collaboration with Erica Saucedo, Moria Small, Ciceley Fullylove, and Jannah Collins

3pm @ VORTEX TENT

Living here feels like floating in the hot shine of mirage. But that makes sense. There's so little water here.

We will be in TROUBLE together. This is a project hovering somewhere between concert and conversation, between dance and its presumed opposite (whatever that might be). We will learn, perhaps, what performance and performers might do on behalf of the people who gather to witness them.

Anya Cloud
Makisig Akin
Stevie Gunter

5pm @ VORTEX MAIN

What can we do together that we cannot do alone? This experimental dance duet, accompanied by a DJ, is a queer reimagination of a creation story. With patience, tenderness, and prayer we epitomize the multiple ways that love can manifest. Intimacy facilitates straddling and queering notions of violence, care, pleasure, play, and gender. Through performance we cultivate impossible conditions as an invitation to elusive spaces where desire, guilt, grief, and love intersect. We hold the complexity and paradox of being socialized female bodies who are queer and racialized. Sometimes we share a body and sometimes we splinter into the ether — we simultaneously elevate each other and take each other down. We embody the wildest dreams of our queer ancestors.

Aquarius Funkk

7pm @ VORTEX TENT

A performance autobiography of solitude and spiritual transformation. Through dance, live actions, & multimedia, afrofuturist artist Aquarius Funkk presents a tapestry of life dancing with the shadow. The flamingo – a representation of self-expression & flamboyance, a symbol of queerness, an animal generally known to remain with its flock – is the archetype of this strange creature far from their “place”, in constant molting transit(ion) to find something like home. The Lone Flamingo is a ritual of synchronicity, the closing of a cycle, a metaphorical death, and a psychomagic resurrection.

Xandra Ibarra

8:30pm @ VORTEX MAIN

Not a stranger to OUTsider, Xandra Ibarra brought a few of her Spictacles to OUTsider 2016’s Sexxx in Public and performed as her alias La Chica Boom. Who can forget La Virgensota Jota, she had us feeling all kinds of ways. We couldn’t be more thrilled, for our tenth-year anniversary, to honor this bad ass emo gurl from El Paso, Tejas, currently surviving, while making home and art, in Oakland, Califas. Ibarra works across performance, video, and sculpture to address abjection and joy and the borders between proper and improper racialized, gendered, and queer subjects. Through a series of curated video art and video performance pieces, we will get a glimpse into the dark and the absurd of what it may mean to be a queer Mexicana living in colonized lands.

co-sponsored by Latino Studies at UT

Sofía Silueta

2:30pm @ VORTEX MAIN

Queer Identity moves beyond boundaries, and often we break barriers and create new connections across mediums in order to express ourselves. As a queer Latinx scientist and sound/visual/performance artist of mixed heritage, I navigate a complex struggle with identity few can relate to. Still, we can be mirrors of each other, and through performing for audiences, I can connect not just sonically, but also through movement, trust, creation, and holding space for raw emotion. This also allows me the power to sculpt visuals, sound and time through performance, and not feel ashamed to take up space.

In this piece the identity of music moves beyond instrumentation on the cello to avant-garde approaches and extended techniques. The sound will shift identity and blend between sonic and visual elements, using the body/costuming and manipulation of the cellos (acoustic and electric) and cords/effects pedals connected to an amplifier, and visuals projected behind me to create an immersive narrative. I want to explore the tumultuous relationship between power dynamics, fear of the other, and the barriers between our bodies inhabiting the same sonic and physical spaces.

Being grounded in a queer identity no matter the space is a transgressive act, and this investigation through visuals, movement, and sound allows me to explore power across mediums, and ultimately allowing an enormous amount of trust between myself and the audience to create a space for such vulnerability.

Artist-in-Residence:
Mirrored Fatality

mango gwen
samar saif

4pm @ VORTEX TENT

LAMAN HAYWAN is an immersive biohacking installation performance where mirrored fatality’s techno-body(s) activate as LAMAN HAYWANS: a transmutated species formed from the lava eruption of Mount Pinatubo, a dormant stratovolcano awakened after 500 years on Philippines’ Araw ng Kalayaan during U.S.A’s occupation and the ruins of floods and cyclones of post-partition South Asia after British rule.

LAMAN HAYWAN is a nonlinear disentanglement invocation calibrated between 2024 - 3033 on the ECOCIDE 3URTH biome: the corpses of natural ecosystems of planet earth murdered by apathetic humans and artificial intelligence seeking vengeance.

The malware Marga’ha ZamZam implants sentient laman haywans to reckon with ECOCIDE 3URTH’s retribution. The c0l0site (colonizer parasite) destroys Marga’ha ZamZam and the laman haywans must evolve as a multispecies hybridization of creatures, terratoids, and transhumans through biomehacking purification to regenerate forsaken spores across ECOCIDE 3URTH.

mirrored fatality experiments with mixed-reality video art and decolonial regeneration as their voice, sculptures, and movement triggers a live English, Kapampangan, and Urdu terratoid glitch noise score.

Trigger Warnings:
settler colonialism, transphobia, racism, xenophobia, and intergenerational ancestral trauma, white supremacy, and Strobe, glitch, yelling, blood, loud noise, flash effects, nudity, intense movement, sexual acts, bdsm, horror content, scents, smoke, and audience engagement

M. Lamar

6pm @ VORTEX MAIN

BIONIC DICKS AND HYPER REAL NIGGAS: A POST HUMAN AND ANCIENT SCI-FI ACHING explores Egyptian mythology and astrophysics to create an Afrofuturist fantasy song cycle of intergalactic escape from the troubles of this white supremacist world. Composed for voice, piano, electronics and video, Osiris and Isis are key figures in this re-membering and refiguring of the invisible Dark Matter and Dark Energy of African American spirit beyond the limits of discourses and imaginings of blackness and black people. BIONIC DICKS AND HYPER REAL NIGGAS goes beyond the known into infinite luminous, and continuous blackness.

Mexican Jihad

8pm @ VORTEX TENT

Alberto Bustamante FKA Mexican Jihad. Architect, creative consultant, cultural promoter and DJ. He is the creative director of the electronic music label NAAFI, the queer performance company TRAICIÓN and the homosocial club CERDOS. He has hosted shows on VICE, Onda Mundial and Redbull Radio. Co-hosted the podcast Peligroso Pop on Spotify Mexico. He does music programming for CDMXtapes at NTS Radio and Homer Radio at Apple Music. He has worked on projects for Museo Jumex, kurimanzutto, LABOR, Fundación Alumnos 47, Centro de Cultura Digital, ARCHIVO Diseño & Arquitectura and Museo Universitario del Chopo. His work has been exhibited by the Design Museum in London, Palacio de Bellas Artes in CDMX and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. As a DJ he has performed in forums such as Mutek Montreal, Festival Ceremonia, Lollapalooza, Novas Frequências, Unsound Festival, CTM Festival, WHOLE Queer Festival and clubs such as Panorama Bar in Berlin, Cakeshop in Seoul and Razzmatazz in Barcelona. He is currently producing a prehispanic ópera with NAAFI & La Bruja de Texcoco. He currently runs the dungeon/gallery MEXICANJIHAD&CO. As a selector his sets include Latin club, left field

Bent Duo:
David Friend
Bill Solomon

VORTEX Pony Shed

Bent Duo's DARKROOM transcribes the structure of a dark room into a sonic experience. Dark rooms supercharge sexual encounters through anonymity, the recalibration of our senses, and the thrill of the unknown. This requires a leap of faith that can lead to unexpected connections and discoveries about ourselves that couldn’t happen in the bright light of daily life. We enter as individuals, but collectively build queer power through self-discovery and -liberation, carrying these new powers with us as we walk out of the dark room and back into lives of necessary resistance against heteropatriarchy. (Performance is experienced individually, blindfold required.)

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