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- my name is Chris Vargas, and I am an assistant professor in the art
- department
- I teach in the time-based art studio area
- MOTHA is the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art. It's a conceptual art
- project by me and I do many projects under this name. I won an award from
- creative capital for a project called trans hirstory in 99 objects
- I'm inviting artists to like create objects associated or related to
- trans hirstory in some way so the project is a series of exhibitions and then an
- eventual catalog
- there is also a lot of possibilities for different components like multimedia
- touring presentation about the objects podcast to sort of data online
- participatory digital archive and where people can upload their own objects that
- they think have significance to trans history kind of before this moment in a
- lot of ways trans identity and culture has existed under the surface and sort
- of in the background out of necessity really because trans lives just needed
- just for survival needed to not be visible
- luckily we're coming into understanding that one person can't represent a whole
- community and thankfully there's like a myriad of experiences out there but
- there's it's still limited in a lot of ways so it's exciting to just be engaged
- with a lot of people's artistic and scholarly work and that really relates
- to teaching because that's sort of what i do in the classroom i get exposed and
- I get to be witness to all this creative production