Basco, Tosh, artist. art

Tosh Basco: No Sky.

[Place of publication not identified] : Rockbund Art Museum, 2023.

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"No Sky­ is the first survey exhibition of Tosh Basco, a Filipino-American artist based in Zurich. Basco is highly regarded for her hypnotic performances, movement-based works, and improvisations, which unfold across film, theater, drawing, and painting. Her practice did not develop in a traditional art school context but initially emerged from her involvement in queer nightlife scenes in the 2010s. At this time, Basco, living in California, exposed herself to various movement traditions and researched alternative histories of performance. Basco became well-known as­ boychild, an ethereal drag persona that the artist performed hundreds of times over a few short years.­ The difficulty of documenting delicate, entangled gestures using photography and video led Basco to experiment with drawing and painting as alternative forms of translation. Eventually, the action of conversion became the very site for Basco's corporeal approach to drawing and painting.­ No Sky­ presents unseen works that Basco made over the last decade, including works on paper, oil painting, photography, and sound. All the works in the exhibition, in various ways, can also be considered as­ representation-by-touch­ and thus ask the viewer to think about alternative modes of representation, challenging the dominance of the eye and mind, imitation and idea.­ The exhibition transforms the 4th floor gallery into a blue stage, which alludes to Basco's studio space. On the museum's 5th floor is an installation of photographic works responding to the exhibition's title: No Sky. It takes its name from a poem by the Lebanese-American poet and artist Etel Adnan (1925-2021), which addresses themes of dislocation and the impossibility of returning to a past or home. Under No Sky, the studio is the stage; performance is rehearsal; painting is touching; improvisation is a form of emancipation."-- provided by distributor.

Performance art.
Photography, Artistic.
Sexual minority culture.
Manœuvre artistique.
Photographie artistique.
Culture des minorités sexuelles.
art photography.

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