This is a small introduction of my artistic practice :)
To begin to explain my work I believe its necessary to express that I am a neurodivergent, autistic, and queer individual. This reflects on the way I approach solutions for my practice. My name is Jet, I am an immigrant from Mexico who has made this place their home for the last 10 years. When I became a citizen, I experienced a very different face of “Progressive Canada. I believe it is imperative to actively learn from indigenous perspectives, and relations to the land, how to become a positive part of a place that is undergoing the process of decolonialization. 
My artist statement is to create pieces that are intended to spark conversations about what is not openly discussed and to experience feelings that are frowned upon or minimalized; as there is a sense of guilt, punishment, or retaliation when expressing ideas outside the mainstream ideologies of capitalism. By bringing dialectical outlooks into my work I am able to juxtapose reality with a new possibility. I create stories where we have learned how to live without capitalism. My art attempts to present counter narratives that highlight the possibilities we are working to achieve. The reality of this capitalist world in which we live is that for the system to exist it must create a repressed individual that exchanges their free time for money. This is why I make free art.

We see ourselves change, bending in multiple directions as to fit the words we tell ourselves. What are these constructions? Where do they come from? What are they telling us? 
 
The following performance is a cleansing ritual. This piece applies expose therapy principles and uses movement and voice as catalysis to break the barrier in between those experiences that have left marks in our psyche. "We have the power to change" is an expression of the anxiety and compulsion to exist in a capitalist world that sees bodies as objects. Among community and peer support  is where the internal process of untangling trauma and conflict can be amended. This performance is a powerful and vulnerable expression of what we experience when masking or pretending to fulfill capitalist ideologies of able bodies. This piece intends to transform the pain we inflict in ourselves as a result of systematic forms of oppression and intends to remind us that we are in the process of untangling what we were taught to “normalize”.

We have the power to change

Audio installation for McMaster University Nov 2019

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