green,howiwantyougreen, is an experimental and interactive, bilingual performance based on the Spanish poet Garcia Lorca's last eleven poems, Sonnets of Dark Love. The poems, dark and final meditations with flashes of passion, were banned for fifty years after his assassination in 1936. The poems are fused with personal coming-out stories and texts from Lillian Hellman's "The Children Hours" and "Oscar Wilde" by Leslie and Sewell Stokes, both written around the time of Lorca's assassination. The multilingual performances clash high art with queer slang, playing with language, music, and double entendres particular to Latino and Black underground gay culture.

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Following the performance, David Antonio Cruz will be in conversation with Edwin Ramoran.

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David Antonio Cruz is a Boston- New York multidisciplinary artist. Cruz fuses painting and performance to explore the visibility and intersectionality of brown, black, and queer bodies.Cruz received a BFA in painting from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Yale University. Recent residencies include the LMCC Workspace Residency, Project for Empty Space’s Social Impact Residency, and BRIC workspace. Notable group exhibitions at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, El Museo del Barrio, Brooklyn Museum, ICA Boston, and the Kemper Museum of Art. He was awarded fellowships with The Franklin Furnace Fund Award, The Urban Artist Initiative Award, and most recently the Queer Mentorship Fellowship and the Neubauer Faculty Fellow at Tufts University. Recent press includes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, WhiteHotMagazine, W Magazine, Bomb Magazine, and El Centro Journal. His fellowships and awards include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, the Franklin Furnace Fund Award, the Urban Artist Initiative Award, and the Queer Mentorship Fellowship.

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Edwin Ramoran is a caregiver and curator based in Palm Springs, California where he is a co-founder of Bayanihan Desert — a collective focused on Filipinx community and civic engagement. He currently serves on the Human Rights Commission and the Social Justice and Equity Committee for the City of Palm Springs. He is a recipient of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Curatorial Fellowship. He has organized solo exhibitions by contemporary artists including Kia LaBeija, Antonio Pulgarín, and Eliseo Art Silva.

Ramoran has held curatorial and managerial positions at cultural institutions in New York and New Jersey including The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, and Longwood Arts Project/Bronx Council on the Arts. He most recently was a director at Royale Projects in Los Angeles. He has been a guest curator at Kingsborough Art Museum, FAM/Filipino American Museum at Ace Hotel, MoMA/P.S. 1, Museum of Chinese in the Americas, PERFORMA 05 at Artists Space, Art in Odd Places, Center for Book Arts, Corridor Gallery, Dixon Place, Dieu Donné Papermill and Gallery, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, South Asian Women's Creative Collective at Talwar Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Bronx River Art Center at BronxArtSpace, Krause Gallery, The LGBT Center in New York, and Visual AIDS. He received a BA in Art History with minors in Ethnic Studies and Journalism from the University of California, Riverside and is an MA candidate in Art History at Hunter College of the City University of New York.

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This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art

This program is presented in-person at MoAD. Proof of Covid-19 vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test within 72 hours of entry is required at the door.

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