Genevieve Quick

Instagram: @genevieve_q

Website: https://genevievequick.com/home.html

Bio: Genevieve Quick is an interdisciplinary artist, arts writer, and critic whose work explores global identity and politics in speculative narratives, technology, and media-based practices. In her sculptures, installations, videos, and performance, her humorous science fiction narratives exaggerate disaporic identity to the intergalactic to address Otherness and displacement. She has exhibited at the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco; Wattis Institute, San Francisco; Asian Cultural Center, Gwangju, South Korea; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland; [2nd floor projects]; Royal Nonsuch Gallery; and Southern Exposure. Quick has been awarded visual arts residencies at The Headlands Center for the Arts, Recology, MacDowell, Djerassi, the deYoung Museum, and Yaddo. She has received a San Francisco Arts Commission Grant; a Eureka Grant from the Fleishhacker Foundation; a Kala Fellowship; and grants from the Center for Cultural Innovation. Quick has contributed essays and reviews to 48 Hills, Artforum, cmagazine, Art Practical, Daily Serving, Temporary Art Review, and College Art Association.

Statement: Through performance, sculpture, and video my objects and narratives employ science fiction to address Otherness, such that ideas of cross cultural communication and immigration become exaggerated from global contexts into intergalactic ones. My videos and performances feature casts of fantastical characters—including an astronaut, scuba diver, narwhal, unicorn, living vases, cyborgs, and an Asianaut—that explore fantasy, embodiment, displacement, and otherworldliness. I have magnified the alienness of the Asian American diaspora to imagine that we come from Planet Celadon, a reference to the ceramic glaze widespread throughout East Asia. As my work references popular culture through music, dance, and film, it merges the present and recent history with more ancient costumes, ceramics, and symbols in joyful and humorous worlds that affirm difference and create a more nuanced representation of the Asian American diaspora to span time and place.