Cosmic Blood

Cosmic Blood, by Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa, explores the concept of mestizaje, The Latin American and Filipino term used to describe the race mixture of Spanish and indigenous blood as a result of colonialism, from a perspective informed by history, contemporary culture and racial formation and creative, spiritual speculation about the future. By redefining mestizaje to incorporate mixed race and queer identites that take on countless forms as in the case of multicultural San Fracisco, Otalvaro-Hormillosa paints a picture of the revolutionary potential for such subversive, yet fluid identities to dismantle the binaries created by colonial constructs relating to race and gender. Live sound, composed, and performed by Melissa Dougherty.