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Art NOW speaker series presents: Migueltzinta Solís
Death Dogs and Disco Balls: Queer Chicanx Immersions
12 pm | October 4, 2023
University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome

What exactly is an immersive experience and why do we desire it? Interdisciplinary artist Migueltzinta Solís will discuss postcolonial dark rides, queered experiences of immersion, and the ever-presence of what lies beneath. He will also speak about a forthcoming immersive performance work, Death: The Ride, part of the current Waking Death Arts & Culture Event Series.

Migueltzinta Solís is a queer trans Chicanx/mestizXXX interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. His creative practice revolves around immersive experience, blending elements of site-specific performance, video, installation, virtual design, painting, writing, and textile. Migueltzinta holds an MFA in Art and a PhD in Cultural, Social and Political Thought from the University of Lethbridge/Iniskim in Treaty 7, traditional Blackfoot territory.

Images courtesy of the artist.

Waking Death: Arts & Culture Event Series is a program of events that focus on death and related themes, bringing together audiences, artists, and guest speakers. The arts have an important role to play in supporting people’s communion with death and this series offers to create a space in which participating artists can share work with the Lethbridge community that reflects on our shared mortality, the nature of impermanence and grief, and the things that haunt us.

Events take place mostly at Casa (230 - 8 St. S) throughout September 9 to October 28, 2023, and will be free and accessible to the public with generous support from the Canada Council of the Arts, Allied Arts Council, Casa, City of Lethbridge, and the University of Lethbridge. Learn more at wakingdeath.ca.