Maria Maea
“A declaration of our capacity - it acts as a mantra of empowerment and direction. For the community in Adelanto reading these words out loud in their yards as it appears in the sky is a spell of action and belief. #FreeThemAll allows this cloudy interruption to be dug into - to open a channel of knowledge to the ongoing movement work of migrant liberation.”
BIO
Maria Maea is a multidisciplinary artist that explores shadow and play through a range of meditative, durational, theatrical and actionist modes. Maea builds structures across mediums and creates games to open herself up to participation. She investigates the ways we engage and view ourselves within the realities constructed for us and by us. As Samoan-Mexican American straddling different layers of identity. Maea's work operates as an illumination on the brown body’s (dys)function as capitalist commodity, as a resistance to somatic fixity, an examination of the multiplicities of consciousness, and survival as immigrants and first-generation Americans.
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