Project Resuscitation

Bashezo: gender non-binary, ze/zir or they/them
Genevieve Rodriguez Diaz: gender non-binary, they/them, ella

Project Resuscitation’s film, Sediment Isotopes is an experimental video that attempts to express some of the numerous veils, timelines, copresences, residues, and fractures inherent to the layered spacial realities I navigate and reside in as a Black Queer gender-non-binary creative and Lucumi practioner. Sediment Isotopes intentionally incorporates the additional veils of the camera and the screen as a means to allow viewers to briefly inhabit shared spaces with those without names.

Bashezo was born and raised in South Philadelphia, PA and currently lives in Medford, MA. Ze is a non-binary transdisciplinary installation and movement performance creative that blends race and queer theory with African diaspora spiritual traditions and aesthetics. Soil, textiles, audio/video elements, clay, mesh, and wood are common materials in zir’s work. These materials are then aggregated as a means to create immersive ephemeral 3rd spaces that centralize Black Indigenous and PoC queer and trans (QTBIPoC) bodies, narratives, and experiences. The core of zir’s work centers on spiritual explorations into/around Blackness, anti-Blackness, race, gender, trauma, and healing.

Bashezo has had solo and group shows in Philadelphia, San Francisco/Bay Area, Boston, Newton, Cambridge, Austin, and Baltimore. Recently, Bashezo had a solo performance and installation show at Castledrone in Dorchester, MA and a group show at IBBA Gallery in Boston’s South End neighborhood. In addition to zir’s own creative practice, ze founded Project Resuscitation and co-founded the UnBound Bodies Collective. The objective of both of these curatorial projects is to shape and hold generative creative spaces that focus on the works of QTBIPoC visual and performance creatives along the East Coast. Recently, the UnBound Bodies collective has collaborated with artists in Philly, Baltimore, and Boston to curate and host Hot Bits, a DIY Queer and Trans Porn film and performance festival at the Oberon in Cambridge and Thrive, a QTBIPoC visual art show and poetry salon at the Harriet Tubman gallery in the South End. Bashezo’s work has been written about and/or showcased in The Bay State Banner, WBUR’s the ARTery, Transition Magazine, the Boston Globe, and Boston Hassle.

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