Episode 74: Movement, Performance, and Amigxs (w/ Camilo Godoy)

Seeing Color

Hi everyone. I hope you are well wherever you are as we are mid-way through August. Summer seems to have come and gone. At least it has for me. I have been mostly preparing for my classes in the fall and for a show I'll be having in November. Otherwise, I have nothing new to report. But for this week, I have a great artist to present to you, so let's get to the introductions.

For today, I am interviewing Camilo Godoy, an artist and educator born in Bogotá, Colombia and based in New York City. His multidisciplinary projects are concerned with political histories and memories. Camilo's work engages with the intersection of history, race, gender, and sexuality and is informed by Queer, Latinx, Feminist, and Black perspectives. Camilo got his BFA at Parsons and is currently completing an MFA at Columbia University, which we discuss in greater detail the politics surrounding elite institutions and academia in the art world. We also get into how Camilo mines archival materials for his work, the role of an educator, the joy of art interviews, and his most recent solo show at OCD Chinatown. Camilo is also part of the group shows at the Leslie Lohman Museum in New York City and at Momentum 11 in Norway. I had a lot of fun talking with Camilo and I hope you appreciate what he has to say as well! In the meantime, stay safe, stay healthy, and enjoy the show.

Links Mentioned:

• Camilo's Website
• Camilo's Instagram
• Amigxs Show at OCD Chinatown
• Leslie Lohman Museum's Omniscient: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture
• Momentum 11 - House of Commons
• Brooklyn Museum's Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall
• José Limón's The Moor's Pavane
• Félix González-Torres
• Barbara Kruger
• Jenny Holzer
• Gran Fury
• Michel Foucault's Friendship As A Way of Life
• Sarah Schulman's The Gentrification of the Mind
• Jia Tolentino
• American Friends Service Committee
• New York Immigration Coalition
• Claudia Tate's Black Women Writers at Work

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