Earth Aengel is an international artist and curator that creates from their own non-binary gender fluid trans experience, navigating fantastical queer ecology through the dysphoria of hetero-centric capitalism.  As human extinction becomes more of an embodied collective surrender, Earth Aengel creates a final homage to the human condition by abandoning capitalistic ideologies. Earth Aengel does not attempt to shame these man-made values but ingests it while laundering through it's consumption and laying by its deathbed- grieving, consoling the outcome- its funeral, and resurrects it into the archive of predetermined aesthetics, bringing it to the afterlife. As Aesethetics and material use are examined in their roots of white supremacist hetero-centric values Earth Aengel uses heat related practices to melt it all down.  Using glass, metal, and body wax as tools to express the kind of wildness and shear honesty of the earth to regenerate itself and start new dramatically different cycles. 

Earth Aengel primarily works with other Queer artists often examining what is different about how queerness builds, grows, makes, communicates, and interacts with art. The absence of queerness in their everyday life brings this abandon, belonging, struggles, anger, healing, and new ideas of being. Earth Aengel hopes that Queerness is truly a bottomless well of opportunity, growth, and discovery inclusive in its nature running parallel and skimming the surface of another world, all blending into one. Earth Aengel is a recent MFA graduate of Goldsmiths University in London and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY with their partner Rob Rose, where they have a separate art practice as an art duo, where one asks the other to complete their idea of an artwork. This is a practice in power dynamics, labor issues, and the struggles and joys of queer relationships. Earth Aengel is also a participating curator at the Gallery Below Grand in NYC. Their upcoming group show titled Kenophobic Pantomimes showcases works of queer artists around the world including a current Tyler MFA candidate John Dillard. 

EARTH AENGEL WORKSHOP

In this workshop we will be deconstructing the tradition of stained glass and soldering. We will examine the history of stained glass making; how it is made, where it comes from, and how to reclaim the material or move it into our current state of being. OR we can surrender to its traditional uses, tropes, and aesthetics. OR BOTH!! Another aspect of this workshop is how does your particular practice relate to glass? Or maybe it doesn't ? How would you incorporate your ideologies, theories, abandon, or gestures into working with glass and solder, or would you include other materials as well?

1:30-2:30 Lecture: Material Dissociation and The Meltdown of Aesthetics - Lecture questioning material use.

2:30-5:00 Alternative Stained-Glass Workshop