Andrés Senra will share his latest works in which he proposes a relationship of care and joy with the planet and the beings that inhabit it through participatory performance and a transdisciplinary approach. Through his work, Senra blurs the line between activism and art, bringing visibility to queer communities, homeless people, migrants, and communities at risk in order to rethink utopia and the possibility of sustainable futures.
Andrés Sera, PhD, is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator based in New York. His latest works revolve around the idea of identity as a fluid process in permanent construction where queer, non-binary, and gender fluid utopian communities are presented through sci-fi visual narratives. As means to rethink the contemporary world, these identities fluctuate as political and ecological assemblages of human and nonhuman entanglements. Senra's work critically reviews post-humanism philosophies from the position of sexual dissidence via speculative fiction, putting forward a defense of the monster, hybridization and post-gender politics. In his previous work, Senra addressed issues such LGBTIQ+ homelessness, the consequences of Climate Change in our lives, the creation of a queer archive as part of his research grant in the National Museum of Contemporary Art Reina Sofia in Spain, a public memorial installation for LGBTIQ+ victims through history and socially engaged art projects for the empowerment of queer and at-risk communities in public spaces. He is currently working with the concept of "Queer Futurism" proposing future utopian queer worlds beyond the cis-heteropatriarchal norm and establishing alliances of care, joy and desire with the planet.
Senra has received several important international grants and awards: NYFA Queens Art Fund in 2023; LMCC Governors Island Residency also in 2023; Art Creation Grant of Madrid Region from 2018-2022; "Multiverso Videoart Grant" BBVA Foundation in 2015; He also received the National Museum of Contemporary Arts of Spain "Reina Sofía" research grant in 2013-2014; in 2012 he was selected by the Goethe-Institut of Germany and Instituto Cervantes of Spain for the art program ‘Participar.de’ taking place in Berlin, Madrid and Toulouse (France). In 2012 and 2013 he received the Ministry of Culture Grant for the Promotion of Spanish Art Abroad. In 2009 he received the "Madrid Procesos" Artist Scholarship granted by AVAM (Spain) and Karl Hofer Universität Der Künste (Berlin); and in 2005 he was selected for the artist in residence program at the Contemporary Art Center La Casa Encendida in Madrid.