Marcus Kuiland-Nazario
Los Angeles native Marcus Kuiland-Nazario is an interdisciplinary artist, performance curator, and producer. Kuiland-Nazario’s works are long-term research-based cross-genre projects exploring extreme states of emotion such as grief, anger, and loss influenced by the cultural and spiritual traditions of the African Diaspora. His performance works have been included in national and international festivals, including the Rapture Festival, ICA London, London; the Rompeforma Festival, San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Pacific Standard Time LA/LA, Los Angeles and The Queer Commons: Politics of Friendship, Love and Affects in Skopje, Macedonia. Currently he is participating in Culture Hub's ReFest, hosting an Instagram Live talk series investigating masculinities for LA FREEWAVES with guests including Nao Bustamante, Sherry Vine, Madison Moore, Pavitra Prasad, Anuradha Vikram, Ron Athey, Guillermo Gomez Peña and Amelia Jones. He is developing an interdisciplinary work about his headstone and is Founder and Creative Director of THE WRINKLE ROOM, a performance lounge for connoisseurs of alternative culture who are over 50 years of age.