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About Maureen Catbagan

Maureen Catbagan is a Filipinx American, multi-media artist based in New York whose work engages social collectivity, examines relations between identity and experience, and explores new forms of empowerments. Collaborative projects include Flux Factory and HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? Collectives. She has also written critical essays with Dr. Amber Jamilla Musser. She has exhibited in venues such as ARoS Museum in Denmark, Witte de Withe Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and The Contemporary Museum of Honolulu. Her website is mareencatbagan.com.

Maureen Catbagan: Queer Film Stills

Maureen Catbagan

Lilly Galaxy -Pozsi and Gage - Film Still by Grace Catbagan

These images are stills from videos that I have made that explore the varied complexities and nuances of queer desire, fantasy, and longing. … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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