Alejandra Abad talks about her upcoming exhibition at PlatteForum, reveals her creative process and asks ArtLab interns what traditions they would like to see passed down, as they imagine a collective future together through her upcoming exhibition. 
Alejandra Abad was born in Venezuela and partially raised in Florida. She is an interdisciplinary artist with a penchant for dense, fantastical landscapes through abstraction and light. Her style is informed by her studies in Architecture at Florida Atlantic University and in Film, Video, and New Media at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received her BFA. In 2018 she received a fellowship at CU Boulder, in Spring of 2021 she will have earned an MFA in Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices. Currently she is part of the 2020-2021 Engaged Arts and Humanities Graduate Student Scholars cohort at CU Boulder. 
Her recent projects feature conceptual and collaborative pieces that work to break down the barriers between artist and audience. She creates honest and symbolic narratives in a visual language that depicts fragmentation, mythology, and folklore that reflect her identity and values. Her installations use analog and digital processes – including painting, animation, sculpture, audio, projection, etc. – to make immersive environments that investigate wellness, community, equity, empathy and imagined futures.

Art Moves is a new PlatteForum podcast where resident artists and community members talk about what means the most to them within their practice, in a space where art meets social change.

To make a donation or learn about upcoming exhibitions, visit our website: platteforum.org/
To learn more about Alejandra visit her website: https://alejandraabad.com/

Cover art by Destany Rodriguez

Art Moves | Episode 5: Collective Futures

Crazy

HeepCheep

Lambs

Murderabilia - Miss You All

The Monster Mash (feat. Jillian Mayer)

Locked in my room with a boom box and a vision 
Drunk off of moon shots-doom clock still tickin
lost on a blue dot mind full of isms 
cause schism with a thought-the mind can be a prism and a prison 

Simultaneously 
in the ether completely devoid of radiancy 
I am either or combust spontaneously 
give me something to die for to love dangerously

You can’t see me Veni viti vicci 
you telepathically fallen into a deep sleep 
we screeching on your evp 
I’m 1/3 of the ghosts with the most that are tethered to the quija, me 

Primordial long live his immortal soul 
traveling through portals black wings on his shoulder bones 
outta sight outta Mind outta body 
I’m the all seeing eye fuck the Illuminati 

been lock in a celestial cell before you knew me 
Special place in hell for yours truly 
Called upon with amethyst and lazuli
engulfed in the madness and basking in it’s beauty 

the mind is a palace suitable to ravage 
forbidden practice-unusual Magic 
glued to you-fooled into a mutual dynamic 
it’s like a funeral both beautiful and tragic 

I’ll take this vessel as far at it can go 
comfortably cold like being nestled in the snow
I’ll make you better-forever we shall grow 
I’m not here to wrestle with your soul 


Blood mixed in the candle wax-vanta black walls 
call upon a phantom half-channeling a god  
we are one with the blackness 
dust to dust and ashes to ashes 

Primordial long live his immortal soul 
traveling through portals-black wings on his shoulder Bones  
willingly let this ghost hold me 
This’ll be the death of the old me

Time

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