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Art Like Love (ALL!) Pioneers Go East Collective, "Agosto Machado: Interviews #1 & #2 (2018/19) "
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Pioneers Go East Collective, "Agosto Machado: Interviews #1 & #2 (2018/19) "

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Featuring Agosto Machado

Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte – Filmmaker, director, and installation

joy burklund – cinematographer

Philip Treviño – Production designer

Mark Tambella – Installation and fabrication

Additional video design: Bryan Baira

2019- 2023

ABOUT:

In 2018 and 2019 we interviewed legendary performance artist Agosto Machado, who spoke about LGBTQ advocacy, the Gay Liberation Movement, Sylvia Rivera, Keith Haring, and others. Here are two clips from the interview. 

BIO:

Pioneers Go East Collective is a radical queer laboratory collective of performing and visual  artists dedicated to dance-theater and video art to empower the LGBTQ experience. Based in New  York City, the collective is led by LGBTQ-identifying, BIPOC, and immigrant artists and cultural  organizers Daniel Diaz, Joey Kipp, Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, and Philip Treviño. The  collective portrays same-gender-loving experiences, memory, and marginalization that resonate with  contemporary lives. Pioneers Go East Collective combines stories of vulnerability and courage with  popular culture to facilitate communal meaning and advocate for cultural integrity. Pioneers Go East  Collective’s work has been widely presented in New York City at BRIC Arts Media, Judson Church, The  LGBT Center, Center for Performance Research, Abrons Arts Center, La MaMa, JACK, Bronx  Academy of Arts and Dance, Chashama Gallery (Harlem), Goethe Institute gallery, Exponential  Festival, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Process Space at Governors Island/LMCC, Lumberyard (Catskill, NY),  as well as Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto. Current collaborators include syd island, Vanessa Rappa, 

Symara Johnson, ALEXA Grae, Darrin Wright, Mark Tambella, Paul Simon, Jo Wiegandt, Azmi Mert  Erdem, joy (Zanni productions), Lynn Ligammari, and Bryan Baira. www.pioneersgoeast.org 

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Featuring Agosto Machado

Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte – Filmmaker, director, and installation

joy burklund – cinematographer

Philip Treviño – Production designer

Mark Tambella – Installation and fabrication

Additional video design: Bryan Baira

2019- 2023

ABOUT:

In 2018 and 2019 we interviewed legendary performance artist Agosto Machado, who spoke about LGBTQ advocacy, the Gay Liberation Movement, Sylvia Rivera, Keith Haring, and others. Here are two clips from the interview. 

BIO:

Pioneers Go East Collective is a radical queer laboratory collective of performing and visual  artists dedicated to dance-theater and video art to empower the LGBTQ experience. Based in New  York City, the collective is led by LGBTQ-identifying, BIPOC, and immigrant artists and cultural  organizers Daniel Diaz, Joey Kipp, Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, and Philip Treviño. The  collective portrays same-gender-loving experiences, memory, and marginalization that resonate with  contemporary lives. Pioneers Go East Collective combines stories of vulnerability and courage with  popular culture to facilitate communal meaning and advocate for cultural integrity. Pioneers Go East  Collective’s work has been widely presented in New York City at BRIC Arts Media, Judson Church, The  LGBT Center, Center for Performance Research, Abrons Arts Center, La MaMa, JACK, Bronx  Academy of Arts and Dance, Chashama Gallery (Harlem), Goethe Institute gallery, Exponential  Festival, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Process Space at Governors Island/LMCC, Lumberyard (Catskill, NY),  as well as Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto. Current collaborators include syd island, Vanessa Rappa, 

Symara Johnson, ALEXA Grae, Darrin Wright, Mark Tambella, Paul Simon, Jo Wiegandt, Azmi Mert  Erdem, joy (Zanni productions), Lynn Ligammari, and Bryan Baira. www.pioneersgoeast.org 

Featuring Agosto Machado

Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte – Filmmaker, director, and installation

joy burklund – cinematographer

Philip Treviño – Production designer

Mark Tambella – Installation and fabrication

Additional video design: Bryan Baira

2019- 2023

ABOUT:

In 2018 and 2019 we interviewed legendary performance artist Agosto Machado, who spoke about LGBTQ advocacy, the Gay Liberation Movement, Sylvia Rivera, Keith Haring, and others. Here are two clips from the interview. 

BIO:

Pioneers Go East Collective is a radical queer laboratory collective of performing and visual  artists dedicated to dance-theater and video art to empower the LGBTQ experience. Based in New  York City, the collective is led by LGBTQ-identifying, BIPOC, and immigrant artists and cultural  organizers Daniel Diaz, Joey Kipp, Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, and Philip Treviño. The  collective portrays same-gender-loving experiences, memory, and marginalization that resonate with  contemporary lives. Pioneers Go East Collective combines stories of vulnerability and courage with  popular culture to facilitate communal meaning and advocate for cultural integrity. Pioneers Go East  Collective’s work has been widely presented in New York City at BRIC Arts Media, Judson Church, The  LGBT Center, Center for Performance Research, Abrons Arts Center, La MaMa, JACK, Bronx  Academy of Arts and Dance, Chashama Gallery (Harlem), Goethe Institute gallery, Exponential  Festival, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Process Space at Governors Island/LMCC, Lumberyard (Catskill, NY),  as well as Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto. Current collaborators include syd island, Vanessa Rappa, 

Symara Johnson, ALEXA Grae, Darrin Wright, Mark Tambella, Paul Simon, Jo Wiegandt, Azmi Mert  Erdem, joy (Zanni productions), Lynn Ligammari, and Bryan Baira. www.pioneersgoeast.org 

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