Mobius Spiderweb is proud to present Lani Asunción in an online presentation Sunday, May 7th at noon.
Spiderweb envisions the vast number of artists throughout the city of Boston as potential individual threads of a web to which Mobius can connect and then act as a connection point for others.
Lani Asunción (they/she) is an interdisciplinary multimedia artist creating socially engaged art in both private and public spaces, independently and collaboratively. Their work weaves together a visual language guided by historical research, community engagement, and experimental performance connected to their identity as a queer multiracial Filipinx-American. Using ritualized performance, Asunción integrates transmedia storytelling through new media technologies such as video, photography, and digital printmaking to encourage conversations that facilitate healing and collective cultural empowerment in the face of cultural violence, oppression, and ancestral intergenerational trauma.
Asunción is based in Boston at Midway Artist Studios and is a member of the BCA Studio Resident Program at Boston Center for the Arts (2022-25). They have had solo exhibitions at the New Bedford Museum of Art (2016), Radial Gallery (2020) with the Department of Art and Design at Dayton University, and Real Art Ways (2022) in Hartford, CT. They have performed live at Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Little Berlin in Philadelphia, Somerville Museum, and the Aurora Picture Show in Houston, TX. Asunción has facilitated community and public art projects at Brookline Arts Center, Boston Children’s Museum, Boston Cyberarts, Urbano Project, and Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia. They have been awarded artist residencies at the Studios at MASS MoCA with Assets for Artists, Vermont Studio Center, Santa Fe Art Institute, I-Park, Elsewhere Living Museum, The Wedding Cake House, Queer.Archive.Work, Caldera Arts Center, and BigCi in Australia. Asunción is an awardee of the Live Arts Boston Grant (2020), City of Boston's Transformative Public Art grant (2020), Dame Joan Sutherland Fund from the Australian American Association (2017), and KALA Fellowship Award (2023) from Kala Art Institute. Their project Revolutionary AYAT was awarded the Public Art for Spatial Justice Grant (2022) from New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA). They are founding member and Artistic Director of Digital Soup, a multimedia art and performance collective supporting inclusive spaces for LGBTQIA+ BIPOC artists. They received their MFA (2011) from the UConn School of Fine Arts with a focus in video and performance.
Website: https://laniasuncion.com
IG: @ lani.asuncion
Register in advance HERE
Each presentation is followed by a lively group discussion.