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Thea Quiray Tagle

Thea Quiray Tagle, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She writes and thinks a lot about socially engaged art and site-specific performance; visual cultures of violence and waste; and surviving political and ecological collapse in the Pacific Rim. For more, visit theaquiraytagle.com.

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Artists Imagine New Monuments and “Otherwise Worlds”

Avatar photo by Thea Quiray Tagle August 4, 2020November 5, 2020

In Building a Better Monument, nine artists remind us of the work that anti-racist monuments and movements must do: memorialize the fallen, while stoking the righteous anger needed for transformation.

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Seattle Museum Falls Short of “Reimagining” Asian Art as It Promised

Avatar photo by Thea Quiray Tagle February 12, 2020February 11, 2020

Hopefully this renovation is not the endpoint of this institution’s reimagining of what an Asian art museum should be.

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A Team of Curators Designs a System for Indigenous Artists to Thrive In

Avatar photo by Thea Quiray Tagle September 25, 2019September 25, 2019

The term ‘decolonization’ has been used frequently to describe the exhibition yəhaw̓. But you won’t hear its curators call it a decolonial project. So what is it, if not that?

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Who Profits from Waste? A Tale of Two Bay Area Cities

Avatar photo by Thea Quiray Tagle December 19, 2016December 16, 2016

In San Francisco, artists in residence at the city dump are valorized for their work. In West Oakland, homeless people who rely on independent recycling centers are criminalized.

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Stories of War and Survival Unfold in San Francisco’s Presidio

Avatar photo by Thea Quiray Tagle November 16, 2016November 15, 2016

Homeland Security takes over three decommissioned military bunkers, a church, and the former headquarters of the Nike Missile Program by staging paintings, installations, and social practice projects throughout.

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At the Venice Biennale, the Philippine Pavilion Favors Beauty Over Ugly Truths

Avatar photo by Thea Quiray Tagle November 13, 2015November 12, 2015

VENICE — “People say I’m extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?” infamously asked “Iron Butterfly” Imelda Marcos in the eponymous 2003 documentary Imelda.

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The Intimate Dynamics of a Two-Person, One-Couple Show

Avatar photo by Thea Quiray Tagle February 24, 2015February 24, 2015

SAN FRANCISCO — To be bound, inextricably, to another person throughout time.

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Keith Haring and the Artist as Witness

Avatar photo by Thea Quiray Tagle February 9, 2015February 12, 2015

SAN FRANCISCO — At the end of the 2012 documentary How to Survive a Plague, we see a group of ACT UP protestors march on the nation’s capital with the ashes of their dead, a counterprotest to the exhibition of the AIDS Quilt on the Washington Mall.

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Art in the Grip of Riot Grrrl

Avatar photo by Thea Quiray Tagle January 22, 2015January 25, 2015

SAN FRANCISCO — What would a “Revolution Grrrl Style Now!” look like now, some 20 years after the punk Riot Grrrl movement blasted onto the cultural landscape?

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