Speaker: Bz Zhang, AIA NOMA

In their design and research practice, they use disciplinary tools of art and architecture to imagine futures beyond settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and cisheteropatriarchy. In doing so, they wonder aloud about representations of violence and the violence of representations by asking questions both using and about tools of art and architecture.

As a queer trans non-binary Chinese-diasporic artist, they construct new narratives through intentional misreading, misalignment, hiding in plain sight, and an extreme attachment to certain objects.