Homosilica (collaboration with Grace Whiteside and additional performers)

2021 - ongoing | Performance & video

Homosilica is a multi-disciplinary, collaborative series investigating the properties of glass through the lens of queer identity. Through performance, theater experiences, video, demonstrations, and interactive sculpture, the Homosilica series showcases the nonbinary properties of glass and its capacity to represent the gender spectrum.

The first iteration, Glass is Gay, focused particularly on the fluidity of hot glass as argument for its inherent queerness. Framed as a coming-out story, pseudo-science, naturalistic documentary, the hot shop and tools became fodder for satire and absurdity, taking the audience on a journey of self-questioning and humorous discovery.

The second iteration, Glass is Still Gay, focused on visibility, transparency, and visual distortion as queer properties. Framed as a talk show, glass was featured as an interview subject, along with focus of several commercials, highlighting safety around blending in, importance of visibility, and the spectrum of opaque to transparent.

Other collaborators include: Deborah Czeresko, Dr. Jane Cook, Lucas Kernan, Kathleen Anne Salzar, Rose Tablizo, El Yurmin, Anna Mlasowsky, Hannah Bowlus, KP, Alexander Rosenberg, Alyssa Radtke

See more of Grace’s work at https://gracewhiteside.com/home.html