Artist-in-Residence
Pó Rodil
Pó Rodil is a transdisciplinary performance artist from Ponce, Puerto Rico. Their practice is based on problematizing and researching queer life and views on-and-of otherness of the body, identities and mental health. They build auto-ethnographic and self-referential works. Pó has done multiple collaborative works such as “Asuntos Efímeros” (2015-2016) a monthly performance art venue in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and they also belong to a experimental theatre company called “La Bicicleta” (2016-current) that bases their work-on the dramaturgy of the actor; and is a founding member of “De Show Puerto Rico” (2015) a queer drag venue in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. As an independent artist they have works such as “Verde sucio” (2016-2017) , “Comí”(2018), “Me resbala’ (2019) “ya la cosa pasó” for Beta Local (2020) and “Desate, o maneras de salir del roto (Untied, or ways to unfuck yourself) (2021). They’ve also been recipient of the La Espectacular art residency with their performance collective “No Entiendo Nada” (2016). Rodil was also an artist-in-residence at the Fogo Island Arts Residency program (2019) and the KNASTER artist -in-residence at Tufts University. Currently, Pó is part of the Puerto Rico Arts Initiative, sponsored by the Northwestern University of Chicago and the Mellon Foundation (2018-2020)(2020-2022) and the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art Artist Fellowship (2020-2021).