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  • a queer specter
  • Celeste Chan (bio)

The city is a translucent map of muscle. There is the aorta, the artery, the atrium, ventricle, and valves.


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From above, there are one thousand and one tiny lights dust particles. Mechanical birds looming, crashing above an ocean of freeway. She swallowed cerulean and teal and turquoise a bleeding blue

Celeste Chan, Queer origins film

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Maneki-neko waves. Body a spectacle. Golden roaring light cutting glitter. She presides over the city, metallic, a queer specter.

Celeste Chan, Queer origins film


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It floats, a 20-foot tall ceramic heart mass floating out of body, this queer body, this spectacle, this gathering of atoms and dust.

Celeste Chan, Queer origins film

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Celeste Chan

Celeste Chan is an experimental artist, writer and organizer. A Lambda, VONA, and Hedgebrook alumna, she has presented work and curated in the SF Bay Area, NYC, Seattle, Austin, Vancouver BC, Glasgow, Berlin, and beyond. Alongside KB Boyce, she co-directs Queer Rebels, a queer/ trans people of color arts project.

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