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Artwork by Eli Brown
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Video Still, 2018
Artwork by Eli Brown
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Driftwood and bass wood, 2017
Artist statement

Museum of Queer Ecologies

Eli Brown's multidisciplinary practice incorporates drawing, writing, performance, sculpture, video, and participatory projects. Materials include dimensional lumber, chicken wire, driftwood, found objects, paper products, and living materials. Eli's process often involves strategizing ways that aesthetic form and social engagement can build emotional resilience, collective power, and knowledge. Grounded in personal experience and queer ecological research, his work seeks to uproot normative, anthropocentric, and scientific renderings of gender, sexuality, and species. He incorporates humor, viewer participation, and pleasure in his process wherever possible.

Currently, Eli is collaborating with several Boston LGBTQ organizations to organize a series of intergenerational roundtable discussions that will serve as public sites for inter-community conversation. A parallel project involves designing and fabricating an installation that explores the desperation, desires, and absurdities present at the intersection of administrative and emotional labor around "targeting" a "vulnerable" population of which he is a member.

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