QUEERIOUS FUTURITIES: Transcultural Belongings in the Darkness

Exhibition Public

Works by 14 Makers from the course “Imagining Queer Asian Futurities”

Queerious Futurities poster with artist performance

QUEERIOUS FUTURITIES:

Transcultural Belongings in the Darkness

 

Queerious Futurites poster with artists hand in the background

 

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Online Exhibition / OCAD U

Pride June 28, 2026
On view: June 28 to August 31

Curated by Julius Poncelet Manapul

 

Works by 14 Makers from the course “Imagining Queer Asian Futurities” May-June 2026, taught by Julius Poncelet Manapul (They/Them/Ze)

Noor Amir, Eden Bakunawa, Anya Balano, Ashlyn Cassidy, Oslind Dizon, Vinesa, Michaela MacLean, Lila Mitra, Connie Nguyen, Miao Qi, Raina Sikdar, Icarus Warren, Ellie Yang, Field Zapton.

 

These series of works created by students from “Imagining Queer Asian Futurities” at OCAD University re-imagines a future in reflection to Queer Asian and transcultural belongings, longings, and Allyship. Through personal lived experiences and reflections these series of brave inspiring creators had tackled pressing issues faced by today’s new marginalized generations in a world still fighting for equity, safe spaces, inclusion, healing, and visualizing a future where creative imagination is a conversation to manifest beyond the horizon. 

I am proud to present the works of 14 creators from diverse programs as Integrated Media, Experimental Animation, Criticism & Curatorial Practice, Drawing & Painting, Photography, Advertising, Industrial Design, Print & Publication. These series of works truly encapsulates my hope for the new generations of creative thinkers who had shown us how art and design are still crucial in our world as free thinkers through imagining queer Asian futurities with possibilities. They truly epitomized what it is to feed the soul and reclaim a sense of value and urgency for the oppressed and transcultural queer belongings in the darkness. Within every generation there are new constant battles to be faced with new sense of longings to rupture oppressing structures.

I hope the work you see will encourage you to create increment acts of kindness, understanding, empathy, bravery, and allyship as our world needs more of these values to heal our wounded futurity. Through the darkness where we can finally learn to exhale out the trauma of the past.

 

 

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