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Artist Biography
Jordan Baylon (they/she) is a diasporic Filipina/o/x artist, community worker and kapwa futurist, born, raised and practicing in Mohkinstsis (Calgary), Treaty 7. Their work emerges from the intimate stories experienced by their diasporic multongbakla [queer ghost] body orienting itself to the irresistible urge of kapwa (“we relate therefore we are”) amidst the devastation of colonial apocalypse. For Jordan, kapwa is felt as a powerful treaty-making offering, integrating anti-oppressive practices that morph to meet the complexity, nuance and systemic scales of colonial existence: poetry, performance, facilitation, video, ritual, design, strategy, care-work and witnessing.
Recent work includes: WWJDD? (What Would JD Do?) (From QILT2BAG), Full Moon Ghost Dance (with Mackenzie Bedford, CURRENT - The New Gallery), YassKara (Baklabayan), Diwata Ringz (The New Gallery), mga damo (Southern Alberta Art Gallery), The Big Queer Variety Show (Oliver Twirl & Kait Hatch), Multong Bakla: A Silent Presence of Beauty (with Zeus Bascon, LiveBiennale), Good Job Arcade(Teresa Tam, Truck Gallery). Jordan also serves as a member of the Ungovernance Collective of AKA Artist-Run in Saskatoon.
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