Giancarlo Montes Santangelo: sowing worlds within the incompossible

How do queer people imagine and sustain life?

sowing worlds within the incompossible is an exercise in worldbuilding. The project emulates a queer community space consisting of an exhibition and a series of programs. The exhibition includes artwork by Amarise Carreras, Nelson Morales, and SHAN Wallace, who play with the tension between the everyday and the fantastical. Alongside their artwork, the installation functions as a place to come inside and read, look, gather, dream, learn, and heal.

Throughout February and March, queer practitioners will share their knowledge about plant medicine, somatic healing, community organizing, fabulation and play, and the history of queer community-building during a series of free events and workshops.

sowing worlds within the incompossible is organized by photographer Giancarlo Montes Santangelo. The project borrows Tavia Nyong’o’s term of the “incompossible” to describe something that both can and cannot be, something between what we have and what we need, and something to investigate worlds outside of our present order.

These themes are central to artist-organizer Giancarlo Montes Santangelo’s work as a visual artist and researcher. In his own practice, he builds worlds with photographic archives and investigates the various ways that colonial histories are indexed in these images and how they settle into the present. Queering these images and considering the ways in which we navigate their afterlives is crucial to his practice. For this project, he invites other artists and practitioners to join in and consider the historical and present ways that queer people imagine and build the incompossible.

Programs:

Languaging the Apocalypse, Unlanguaging the World: Queer and Indigenous Poetics of Destruction and Survival
Saturday, February 11, 2023 | 2pm

Abolition of Policing—A Critical Theory of Police Power
Saturday, February 18, 2023 | 1:30pm

How to build a world (one kiki at a time)
Thursday, March 2, 2023 | 7-9pm

The Orchid Forest: Connecting with our Queer & Trans Ancestors Through Plant Spirit Medicine
Sunday, March 5, 2023 | 1pm

Queer Life Force: Breathwork + Embodiment Practices
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 | 5:30-7pm

Destroy the World
Saturday, March 11, 2023 | 1:30pm