Image ID: Dev Lounging in the Grass, Devin lays in a field of grass wearing a white tank top, blue denim jeans, and dirtied white chuck converse. They have a short bob haircut and black framed glasses. They’re supporting their head in their hands as they casually lean back into the ground, compressing the grass. "Scrooger" with team affiliations, a robot dog companion, superpowers, and vulnerabilities.
Statement:
Dev/in Alejandro-Wilder (they/them) is a latine visual and drag artist/performer who moves across new media and lens-based practices to haunt, inquire, investigate, and confront the beliefs and systems we exist entangled within. Born deaf, queer, and non-binary their work explores themes orbiting around diasporic systems, in/visbility, “performance”, non-human collaboration, “hyper-labor”, and the false binary between care/harm. After relocating their studio practice from the East Coast in 2019 to their native Austin they founded the virtual/IRL free skool initiative Free Skool Now at The Museum of Human Achievement. As a member of The Revolution School (Los Angeles) they accepted a 2022 Creative Capital award in support of our ongoing trauma-processing AI-companion project My Little BEI 🤖🐱.
Bio:
Since completing their BA in 2015 Alejandro-Wilder has received generous fiscal and in-kind support from the Creative Capital Foundation, Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin, The Museum of Human Achievement, Shelburne Craft School, Austin Mutual Aid, and Generator Makerspace in the form of awards, residencies, fiscal sponsorship, honorariums, and educational scholarship. They have also been featured as a contributor for the art books and art and literary magazines, Psst Press (photography, writing, 2022), Land Chapters (photography, painting, print, 2021), Tele- (installation/film, essay, web, 2019), and peach fuzz (photography, print, 2020). In 2022 their collective contribution to The Mind’s Eye: A LACMA Poster Project, titled ND Time Bandits: Co-adventures in Reshaping Time made in collaboration with The Revolution School, was acquired byLACMA’s permanent collection for archival care.
Fantasma (Dev/in) Scrooger Card, The Revolution Deck
Image ID: a playing card such as that for a fantasy game describes the character "Fantasma" a ghost-like "Scrooger" with team affiliations, a robot dog companion, superpowers, and vulnerabilities.