Victoria Sin (b. 1991, Toronto CA) is an artist using speculative fiction within performance, moving image, writing, and print to interrupt normative processes of desire, identification, and objectification. This includes:

1) Drag as a practice of purposeful embodiment questioning the reification and ascription of ideal images within technologies of representation and systems of looking,
2) Science fiction as a practice of rewriting patriarchal and colonial narratives naturalized by scientific and historical discourses on states of sexed, gendered and raced bodies,

3) Storytelling as a collective practice of centring marginalized experience, creating a multiplicity of social contexts to be immersed in and strive towards,

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Drawing from close personal encounters of looking and wanting, their work presents heavily constructed fantasy narratives on the often unsettling experience of the physical within the social body.

Their long-term project Dream Babes explores science and speculative fiction as a productive strategy of queer resistance, imaging futurity that does not depend on existing historical and social infrastructure. It has included science fiction porn screenings and talks, a three-day programme of performance at Auto Italia South East, a publication, and a regular science fiction reading group for queer people of colour.

My drag work and my art practice are not always the same thing though they are always in conversation with each other. I do one of these wipes after every performance. They are prints of my face from a particular evening, and an archive of the feminine labour produced in that instance. They also become performative images in themselves, highlighting the specific kind of feminine labour that was produced on that occasion.

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Visible Pride

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Visible Pride is an arts festival Spanning Folkestone's LGBTQI+ Pride month (2nd - 28th of August), celebrating the diversity & lives of LGBTQI+ people across geography & time. Occupying several well know venues within Folkestone's creative landscape; Visible Pride claims the towns histories & spaces – while imagining new queer futures – as an inclusive act of LGBTQI+ visibility & pride.

Visible Pride is art made by minorities for minorities welcoming everyone to engage. Visible Pride seeks to heighten the quality of life for all by inviting a celebration of difference & nourishing exceptional (cultural) diversity within the visual arts. Visible Pride consists of 4 exhibitions:

1) Becoming Constellation at Sassoon Gallery – 2nd - 28th of Aug 2) ANHELO at ]performance s p a c e [ – 17th - 23rd Aug
3) Victoria Sin at Casement Arts – 11th - 25th Aug
4) Casualty at The Brewery Tap – 12th - 26th Aug

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www.victoriasin.co.uk @sinforvictoria

www.visiblepride.com @queerasfolke