Bird of Magnificence (2018)
Documentation: Edgar Fabian Frias
Bird of Magnificence was a live, interactive performance by Yoli at Nature Camp, an evening of performance art and immersive installations at Human Resources in Los Angeles, CA curated by artists Edgar Fabián Frías, Michelle Antonisse, and Sarah Marie Elisabeth Bachelier.
Bird of Magnificence was responding to Martabel Wasserman’s essay “Seashell Aesthetics: Nature-Camp in the Era of Expanded Identity and Shrinking Resources” and Mia Mingus’s speech “Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability”.
In Mia Mingus’s speech they say “ The magnificence of bodies that have been coded, not just undesirable and ugly, but un-human. The magnificence of bodies that are understanding gender in far more complex ways than I could explain in an hour.”
Bird of Magnificence steps into the un-human to explore the nature of the body beyond gender, desirability, and beauty. It is interested in inhabiting a body- atrocious, ugly, and magnificent beyond it’s normative acceptance; existing in an acceptance of its own embodiment.