Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa

Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa is a San Francisco-based interdisciplinary performance artist and writer.  She received her B.A. from Brown University in an independent concentration entitled “Hybridity and Performance.” Her work in performance and video has been presented nationally and internationally. From 2002 to 2008, she directed her own arts organization (a)eromestiza, dedicated to presenting cutting edge video and performance by queer artists of color.  Her writing has been published by Social Justice Journal, shellac, artistmanifesto.com, Antithesis Journal: Sex 2000 and anthologies such as Postcolonial and Queer Theories: Intersections and Essays and Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory / Theorizing the Filipina American Experience. Her research as an M.A. candidate in Visual and Critical Studies at California College of the Arts has focused on issues of memory, embodiment, and the politics of space in relation to public art and memorials in the aftermath of Argentina’s Dirty War (1976-1983). Partial list of awards includes Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, the SF Art Commission, the Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize, and the National Association for Latino Art and Culture. Visit www.devilbunny.org.