Mx. Media: Voices, Visions, Geographies at Dixon Place

Join us for an illuminating evening exploring queer geographies through film, photography, music, and words. Three artists who refract their ideas across multiple media will take you on a journey tracing paths across desert landscapes, forest shadows, and the intimacies that shape our lives. Travel with us as each artist poses intricate questions about what shapes their work and experience of the world, while also refusing to offer singular or easy answers.

Afua Kafi-Akua is a multidisciplinary exhibiting artist, educator, and curator. She co-produced the documentary JUST BECAUSE OF WHO WE ARE, about violence against lesbians, which aired on PBS. She recently co-curated the VR gallery exhibition ANCESTRAL FUTURISM: UNAPOLOGETICALLY MELANATED in collaboration with Oculus and Alliance for Media Arts + Culture.

Alexis Clements is a writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Her film, All We’ve Got, is currently airing on PBS stations and her writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, Hyperallergic, Bitch Magazine, American Theatre, and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. Learn more: alexisclements.com

Patricia Silva is an internationally exhibited photographer, filmmaker, video artist, and educator based in Queens. Their work has been shown in group exhibitions at the Center for Fine Art Photography USA; The Berlin Biennale; and screened in film programs at Doc NYC; British Film Institute’s LGBT Film Festival, among more.