Liparoto’s intuitively based practice tenderly unpacks the impact of social constructs on different forms of intimacy in daily life. They delve into themes such as female love and violence in familial relationships (Small Acts of Violence), the need for safe queer spaces online (Not Found On) and performing identity (Andrew has his Period & Plural Authorship Collective). They explore these themes from a personal starting point using durational performances and interviews with individuals with close connections to these topics. Liparoto’s work then extends these questions to wider society, through workshops, audiovisual installations, immersive environments, film, performance, ceramic sculptures and publications.
With their playful and approachable style as well as engaging storytelling, the work of Aay Liparoto seduces the audience into a surreal yet familiar universe. Their work invites their public to interact, creating friction by asking you to look at your own behaviour and to gently question the invisible social constructs that govern you, especially in connection to laws, forms of bureaucracy, (un)written social protocols or nostalgia. In this way, they highlight the influence of these structures on the everyday reality of our bodies and relationships as well as our own agency.
Aay Liparoto works on thematic long term projects (such as Love and Violence, Queer Pleasure or Queer online networks) that have multiple outcomes and iterations addressing different modes of learning with sensory, verbal, visual, auditory and text based outcomes in a single project.
Currently, Aay Liparoto is working on a series of interviews around queer pleasure and shame in the context of Section 28-a law prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality in schools in the UK between 1986 - 2005-as well as touring their cinematic VR-experience Small Acts of Violence, which premiered at the CON10UR Biennale as a solo show at Argos Centre for Audiovisual Arts, Brussels (BE)
- text created in conversation with Dagmar Dirkx
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AAY LIPAROTO(b. 1987, New Jersey, USA)is a queer neurodivergent artist/director who lives and works between Brussels and London. Aay Liparoto graduated from the Camberwell College of Arts (University of the Arts London, UK) 2009 and obtained a Masters at KASK Gent in 2015 (BE). Their work has been shown in institutions such as argos centre for audio visual arts (BE), M HKA (BE), FACT Liverpool (UK), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (DE) and BOZAR (BE), as well as major festivals such as International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL), Ars Electronica (AT), Open City Docs London (UK), Transmediale and EMAF (DE). It also has been shown at thematic festivals and in close collaboration with intersectional queer/feminist collectives such as HOT BODIES choir (BE), Xeno Collective (BE), Porto Femme Festival (PT), and Homographia (MEX). Liparoto has been in residency at FACT Liverpool and Morpho (BE), among others institutions, and has received multi-year grants from the Flemish Government and for their VR project Small Acts of Violence received support from the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF).
Review:
https://e-tcetera.be/small-acts-of-violence-say-liparoto/https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/the-eternal-network/
https://e-tcetera.be/small-acts-of-violence-say-liparoto/https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/the-eternal-network/