EMILY OLIVEIRA
Emily Oliveira is an interdisciplinary artist and performer based in Brooklyn. They were a 2020 NYFA Artist Fellow, the 2019 Van Lier Fellow at Wave Hill, and an inaugural member of Ars Nova’s Makers Lab; in 2023 she will be the Abbey Award Fellow at the British School at Rome. Emily uses textiles, video, installation, music, and performance to explore the intersections of labor, and queer futurity. Their performances use original music, handmade sets and costumes, drag, and re-performance. Oliveira’s textiles and installations center around intertwining sci-fi narratives in a queer, utopian future, using textiles, murals, video, performance, and immersive installation to transform these narratives into an expansive and interconnected mythology for a future earth.
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