EcoArt is delighted to welcome Graham Tornado Bell for a two week residency based in Dumfries and Galloway. 16th -30th August 2024.
Graham Bell Tornado is a transgender performance artist born in Scotland and currently living and working in Spain. Their projects explore the connections between gender and ecology from a queer perspective. They studied for their PhD in Artistic Research and Production (receiving distinctions and a prize for most outstanding thesis) with expert on LGTBQI art Juan Vicente Aliaga at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and in 2019 published the book Ecogender X based on their experiences.
Their performances mix popular culture and traditions with social criticism and take place in the most diverse contexts, from artistic festivals, discos, museums, theatres, social centres to public and rural spaces.
They co-direct the queer art space La Erreria (House of Bent) which won the Museari Queer Art Prize in 2020. They have had solo exhibitions in Fantastik Lab (Valencia, 2022), Davis Museum (Barcelona, 2015) and the Transmission Gallery (Glasgow, 1996) and done residencies at Art Sur (Cordoba), Unfix Festival of Performance and Ecology (Glasgow) and CUNTemporary Arts (London). They have collaborated with artists such as the ecosexual activists Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens (Venice Biennale), Cabello/Carceller (IVAM) and Ernesto Tomasini ( ICA, London). Their video works, including “How to Heal the World Bank” (2022), “Let’s get Ecosexy!” (2020), and “Queers Against Climate Change” (2020) have been shown at feminist and LGTBQ film festivals in London, Paris, Barcelona, Fortaleza and Quito.
Their eclectic and experimental approach is exemplified by two recent activities- an international online conference with the Institute of Queer Ecology and leading a parade against war through the streets of a village in Cataluña with majorettes and a brass band in the action “Femme Power”.
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