Aay Liparoto [ 1987°, USA ]
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Multidisciplinary artist Aay Liparoto (1987°, New Jersey, USA) traverses the boundaries of intimacy and bureaucracy. Seeking tenderness with your identity card and the bureaucracy implicit in your friendships. The work touches on stories of everyday relationships with objects, people and social structures, whose power can be rendered invisible by daily interaction. Each governed by layers of laws, nostalgia and social history.
In their solo and collaborative practice Liparoto uses repetitive performative acts and creates scenarios along with workshops, videos and text to audiovisually unpick these everyday life relationships. Their methodology began with the 9 month long daily performance project Andrew has His Period (2014) and Andrew a Strong Courageous Warrior (2016) a seductive reflection on normative gender performance. Evolving further on a road trip across the USA with their mirror image to understand the nature of collaboration in We were Fools for Thinking it was going to be Fun (2019). Then in all bodies welcome| no bodies welcome (2020), they question the need for queer bodies to consent online with the an immersive co-written choral installation created in collaboration with HOT BODIES – Choir Brussels.
During their recent residency at MORPHO (2021/2022), antwerp they are developing Small acts of Violence, a new piece in produced by ARGOS (Brussels). It relies on researches on the perpetration of non-consensual violence by women, non-binary and non-cis men in intimate relationships. Resulting is a haptic 360° cinematic virtual reality installation, that osmotically subverts sensuality, tenderness and institutions. Asking what are the violent actions we take in the name of love?
They live and work in Belgium.
Aay Liparoto [ 1987°, USA ]
Education
2013 / 2015 Masters Fine Art, KASK, Ghent (BE)
2006 / 2009 BA (hons) Illustration, Camberwell College of Art, (UK)
2005 / 2006 Foundation Course, Graphic Design,
London College of Communication (UK)
Filmography
2023 SMALL ACTS OF VIOLENCE
Produced by ARGOS, ( In development )
WE WERE FOOLS FOR THINKING IT WAS GOING TO BE FUN (2019)
Produced by Animal Tank
2020 Margate Film Festival (UK)
Miry Concertzal | Ghent (BE)
Esssex Documentary Festival (UK)
Female (H)aze, Decorartiler (BE)
2019 Breedbeeld Kortfilm Festival | De Studio | Antwerp (BE)
Avant premiere | Cinema Nova, Brussels (BE)
WHAT DEVIOUS CUNTS WE ARE (2018)
2018 PLAN B Festival, Bekegem, (BE)
ANDREW A STRONG COURAGEOUS WARRIOR (2016)
2019 Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, (UK)
2018 Homografía / Homography #4, ArtSpace México · Mexico City (MX)
ILVSX !?, Tanks, Brugge, (BE)
2017 Docville International Documentary Film Festival, Leuven, (BE)
Fuck You Friedrich , Worm, Rotterdam (NL)
2016 International Film Festival Rotterdam, (NL)
OFFOFF Cinema, Gent (BE)
Bozar Cinema, Brussels (BE)
Xposed Queer Festival, Berlin (DE)
Split 21st Film Festival, (HR)
Pink Screens Brussels (BE)
Asterico Festival, Buenos Aires (ARG)
Solo Installs
2019 NO BODIES WELCOME, FACT Liverpool, (UK)
2018 WELCOME/NOT WELCOME, Solo Zomerrsidentie #6, Machelen-aan-de-Leie, (BE)
2016 THE POSSIBILTY OF BEING OTHER Strangelove, Antwerp (BE)
2015 SOMETHING THAT ALWAYS WORKS, MAP, Gent (BE)
2013 YOURS, AUSLANDER, Kliener Salon, Berlin (DE) *P_A_C
Select Group
2021 MOVE TO....SOCIOSPHERE, Ars Electronica, (AT)
POLITICAL BODY II, Pinaofabik, (BE)
2020 TOGETHER, MHKA, Antwerp, (BE)
ARTCONTEST, Brussels, (BE)
E2E, Transmediale, HWK, Berlin (DE)
2018 LUCKY, NGBK Gallery Berlin (DE)
GENDER THINGS, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh, (UK)
2017 I COULD HAVE BEN A DANCER, Blanco, Ghent, (BE)
WHERE DOES IT HURT?, Gent (BE)
2016 MEATSPACE, Coven Berlin (DE)
MAKE ART GREAT AGAIN, Antwerp Art Weekend (BE)
!VALUE# [Act 2], Croxhapox Window, Gent (BE)
2015 IMAGINARY REEFS, Glogauair Space, Berlin (DE)
LA VIE MODE D’EMPLOI, Zwart zaal, Gent (BE)
TUMULT, KASK, Gent (BE)
Performances / workshops
2021 EUROPEAN MEDIA ARTS SHOWCASE, Halle Kunsthalle (DE)
CODISCO Ethical Co-Learning, SPIN, Brussels (BE)
2020 NO BODIES WELCOME : : workshops
Online edit-a-thon, Arts Meets Radical Openness, Linz, (AT)
Co-writing workshop, Transmediale, Berlin (DE)
2019 NOT FOUND ON : workshops
Think Tank Day: WORM, Worm, Rotterdam (NL)
Round Table: RoSa Library, Brussels (BE)
Round Table: Tender Centre, Rotterdam (NL)
Introduction: FACT, Liverpool, (UK)
Poster Making: FACT, Liverpool, (UK)
Co-writing: Host with Conway, The Bagelry, Liverpool, (UK)
Our Networks: Host with Amit, FACT, Liverpool, (UK)
2016 I WANT TO AGREE WITH YOU BUT YOU ARE MAKING IT REALLY HARD FOR ME
Current Space, Baltimore, ML, (USA)
Panoply Performance Laboratory, Brooklyn, NY, (USA)
Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY,(USA)
Mammal Gallery, Atlanta, GR, (USA)
Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA, (USA)
Not Gallery , Austin, TX, (USA)
2015 PLEASE PERFORM YOUR IDENTITY QUIETLY’ Etcetera III, S.M.A.K, Gent (BE)
AND WHO WANTS PEACE? The Jewish Museum, Brussels (BE) ( For R’m Aharoni )
2014 FORMALLY FEED ME, Kristof de Clercq Gallery, Gent (BE)
AS LONG AS I STILL GOT IT’ KASK, Gent, ( BE)
Z IS FOR ZIGZAG, Tale of the Tub, Rotterdam (NL) ( For Kelly Schacht )
2013 ‘WHEN I FUCK HIM I THINK OF YOU’ Zwart zaal, Gent (BE)
Grants / Prizes
2020 'We Were Fools For Thinking it was Going to Be Fun' ESSEX DOCSFEST, Won Jury Prize
'Small Acts Of Violence' ARGOS Open call Production
KUNSTENDECREET: KORTLOPENDE BEURS, (BE)
2018 STIMULERINGSFONDS, Digital Culture, (NL)
KUNSTENDECREET: KORTLOPENDE BEURS, (BE)
VLAAMS AUDIOVISUEEL FONDS, Filmlab (BE)
2017 KUNSTENDECREET: KORTLOPENDE BEURS, (BE)
SHORT FILM GRANT, SABAM, Brussels (BE)
2016 FONDS KWADRAAT, (NL)
BRITISH COUNCIL TRAVEL FUND, London (UK)
2015 SHORT FILM GRANT, SABAM, Brussels (BE)
Residency
2021 MORPHO, (formally AAIR), Antwerp
Sept - Jan
20th - 30th Sept & 16th - 24th Nov Kaaistudios | Brussels, (BE)
2019 European Media Arts Residency @ FACT
15th May - 12th Jul, Liverpool (UK)
COLLECTIVE CONDITIONS | Constant
Nov 4 - 12 | Brussels, (BE)
26th Sept - 9th Oct | Brussels, (BE)
2018 Artist Residence SOLO ZOMERRESIDENTIE #6,
22nd Aug - 1st Oct, Machelen-aan-de-Leie, (BE)
2017 Artist Residence - Dusangneuf Osangsett
1st Sept - 24th Nov, Brussels (BE)
Artist Residence - Arc Residency
9th - 29th May, Romainmôtier, (CH)
Panels / Guest Artist /Publication
2022 LETTERS AAY TO ZED, Tim Magazine, Feature (BE)
2021 ANDREW HAS HIS PERIOD, We are Europe Magizine, Feature (BE)
2020 ETERNAL NETWORKS Publication,
Everything We Build, Institute of Network Culture
TRANSMEDIALE STUDENT FORUM, Artist Talk, Berlin (DE)
2019 QUEER SOAP BOX, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, (UK)
AUGMENT AND DISRUPT, Impakt & RAUM, Utrecht (NL)
2016 VISITING ARTIST, Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, (USA)
PAC PRESENTS, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA, (USA)
SELFIELAND, OffOff Cinema, Ghent (BE)
COMMODIFYING THE QUEER, International Film Festival Rotterdam, (NL)
2015 NOBODY IS CLICHE, STAM Museum, Gent (BE)
2012 HELLO COLLECTIVE, Residency Director, (PL)