UC San Diego

Spanning dive bars, drag shows, trashcans, and AA meetings. Ooooooooh wheeeeeee! To be a pig in a tree... [THE ONE THAT GREW EMOTIONS AND DIED] asks us to reflect on the ways we create and maintain our histories, problematizing many questions around the autonomous/collective observing/preservating of love and community. Departing from varied pasts, presents, and our constantly becoming futures, Ooooooooh wheeeeeee! To be a pig in a tree... [THE ONE THAT GREW EMOTIONS AND DIED] stands both as a testament to fringe acts of mutual gazing and, as a venue within a venue, provides a delicate framework that identifies our togetherness, anticipation, and fantasy as critical tools for the potential development of a more felt and held future.Standing as a found and fabricated social sculpture and queer archive Ooooooooh wheeeeeee! To be a pig in a tree... [THE ONE THAT GREW EMOTIONS AND DIED], brings together an intimate collection of time, objects, and collaborative projects by Alejandrina M. Medina, jun!yi Min, beck haberstroh, and mika Castañeda, sincerely establishing a record that seeks to cultivate a deep sense of community embedded with affirmations towards one’s sacredness and capacity for transcendence.