WF Edgar Fabian Frias: I'm Hopeful For The Magic We Are All Weaving...We Are Transforming Hierarchies

Published: April 28, 2022, noon

Edgar Fabi\xe1n Fr\xedas returns to the podcast to fill Amy + Risa with hope about the ways art, magic, play, and even confusion can open up portals for us to hear our ancestors' voices and shift the world. \n\n"Edgar Fabi\xe1n Fr\xedas works in installation, photography, video art, sound, sculpture, printed textiles, GIFs, performance, social practice, and community organizing, among other forms. Fr\xedas is Wix\xe1rika and their family is from Mexico, though they have lived in the United States for most of their life. Their art addresses historical legacies and acts of resistance, resiliency, and radical imagination within the context of Indigenous Futurism, spirituality, play, pedagogy, animism, and queer aesthetics. Weaving together the traditional and ancestral with the contemporaneous and emergent. \n\nBorn in East Los Angeles in 1983, Fr\xedas received dual BA degrees in Psychology and Studio Art from the UC, Riverside. In 2013, they received an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, with an emphasis on Interpersonal Neurobiology and Somatic Psychotherapy. Fr\xedas is a 2022 candidate for an MFA in Art Practice at UC Berkeley. \n\nTheir work has been exhibited internationally, including the Vincent Price Art Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Oregon Contemporary, MOCA Jacksonville, Performance is Alive, Project Space Festival Ju\xe1rez, and ArtBo, among others. Their work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Taschen, Bustle, Mashable, Slate, CVLT Nation, Terremoto, Hyperallergic, and other publications. They have been tokenizing single and limited editions of their artwork on the blockchain since 2020. Their digital editions can currently be found on Foundation, MakersPlace, Hic Et Nunc, and Rarible."