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Thursday, November 7th, 2024, 5:30 - 7:30pm

Thea Quiray Tagle, PhD

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Thea Quiray Tagle, PhD (she/her) is a Filipinx femme curator, writer, and transdisciplinary scholar whose research broadly investigates photography, socially engaged art and site-specific performance; visual cultures of violence and waste; urban planning and the environment; and grassroots responses to political crises and ecological collapse in and across the Pacific. Across her various research and creative projects, a question that drives Thea’s work is: how can socially engaged art and performance move us, collectively and individually, to work towards more just and livable futures that are anti-capitalist, feminist, and queer? How can art and performance model practices of right relation with other humans and non-human life, that might impact how we choose to live in the day-to-day?  She was the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associate in Asian American Studies at UIUC from 2015-2016, and earned a PhD in Ethnic Studies from UC San Diego. Her writing has been published in outlets including American Quarterly, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Hyperallergic, and BOMB Magazine. She is co-curator of New York Now: Home, the inaugural contemporary photography triennial at the Museum of the City of New York (2023). Dr. Quiray Tagle is the Associate Curator of the Bell Gallery and Brown Arts Institute (BAI) at Brown University. theaquiraytagle.com