Artist Statement: Drawing while black is an exploration of sensorial feel/felt lines both in text and performative drawings involving 2D, 3D, 4D, and Speculative fiction(s) art practices. Moreover, the work explores how Black, Indigenous, Queer, and People Of Color (BIQPOC)'s have created a means of survival through visual/performance art, creating a mode(s) of active radical resistance.
In my work, the lines created literally intersect, overlap, and make fluid many of the diasporic identities that colonial powers would have me believe are fixed. By doing this work I can reimagine ways to fight anti-blackness, ableism, queer-antagonism, the erasure, and the deafening silences caused by colonial powers. In short, these processes of making renew the vitality of queerness and/or blackness in both my current artistic practice and in my scholarly pursuits.
MAURICE MOORE (he/him/them/they) is currently a doctoral Performance Studies student at the University of California-Davis. From 2011 to 2021, he has exhibited work and performed at the International House Davis (I-House) in Davis California, The Memorial Union Gallery at North Dakota State University, Christina Ray Gallery in Soho New York, Weatherspoon Museum of Art in North Carolina, and performed with Rios/Miralda in Madison Wisconsin. His creative non-fiction, fictional and visual works have appeared in Storm Cellar Journal, Harbor Review, Rigorous, Wicked Gay Ways, Unlikely Stories Mark V and Confluence, Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, and HIVES Buzz-Zine.
