The feminino your sister warned you about.
Intellectually rigorous and ontologically normal.
Notorious dance number liker.
What I'm interested in:
- Ephemera, queer/trans sexual cultures, & alternative/experimental methodologies + pedagogies,
- Time-based art, longform essays, & social practice,
- Electronic music, Broadway + movie musicals, Soviet animation, & the Czech New Wave,
- Adaptive communication, metacognition, pattern recognition, & concept mapping
My research is oriented around exploring the influence different economic structures have on how artists create and about what the idea of "artistic integrity" means under different economic models. My practice is oriented around care and the ways in which intimate expressions are overlooked in art, the historical record, and institutionalization. Additionally, my work is concerned with the processes by which bodies of knowledge are legitimized. I value engaging with the ongoing study of myself as a queer and trans subject, as well as exploring my role as a dynamic subject of history.
Related: I am passionate about creating things that both generate better conditions in our present and build revolutionary optimism for the future.
Kyan Oliver Furlong originally planned on becoming a sex therapist, but is now a multidisciplinary creative, educator, and organizer based in Portland, Oregon. They earned their B.A. from Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies in 2015, where they designed a program titled, "Ephemera, Queer Epistemologies, and Cultural Healing." From 2014-2017, he was the research assistant and company dramaturg for PQDANCE, a Brooklyn-based experimental dance company. Since 2023, they have been involved in a number of union campaigns, including United Cinema Workers and New Seasons Labor Union, and is developing film programming intended to unite, educate, and radicalize the working class of Portland and beyond.