Gad Yola
Biographic Data
| ID | 2948940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gad Yola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gad |
| FAMILY NAME | Yola |
| SIGNATURE | YOLA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Artist, Spain |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“I Am a Meme”
Founder of the collectives Casa Drag Latina and House of Gad, Gad Yola is an Afro-Peruvian multidisciplinary artivist based in the city of Madrid. As part of a trans-Atlantic Latinx queer media history, Gad Yola’s career allows us to inquire about what can be described as transvestite, antiracist, and transfeminist drag “positioning” against injustices happening on both sides of the Atlantic. Be this their rejection of state violence in Peru, the…
Madrid is Browning
Afro-LatinX drag artist Gad Yola was born in Lima in 1995, migrated to Spain in 2006, and began performing in Madrid in 2017, a year marked by the rise of Spanish nationalism. This interview acquaints us with Gad Yola's artistic vision and practices. It orients us toward the growing presence of "Brown art" in the Peninsula, taking a deeper look at the work of artists who declare themselves "migrants" or "Migrantas" and examining the use of LatinX…
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“I Am a Meme”
Founder of the collectives Casa Drag Latina and House of Gad, Gad Yola is an Afro-Peruvian multidisciplinary artivist based in the city of Madrid. As part of a trans-Atlantic Latinx queer media history, Gad Yola’s career allows us to inquire about what can be described as transvestite, antiracist, and transfeminist drag “positioning” against injustices happening on both sides of the Atlantic. Be this their rejection of state violence in Peru, the…
Madrid is Browning
Afro-LatinX drag artist Gad Yola was born in Lima in 1995, migrated to Spain in 2006, and began performing in Madrid in 2017, a year marked by the rise of Spanish nationalism. This interview acquaints us with Gad Yola's artistic vision and practices. It orients us toward the growing presence of "Brown art" in the Peninsula, taking a deeper look at the work of artists who declare themselves "migrants" or "Migrantas" and examining the use of LatinX…
Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Conversation (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work) · Hispanic-African Historical Relations (1 work) · Latin American and Latino Studies (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Nationalism (1 work) · Political science (1 work)