Abstract
ABSTRACT In this essay, I spend time with Mariana Valencia’s 2020 video-performance Solo B, which was (re)imagined for an online environment when her live commission for The Shed in New York City was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Asking what Solo B can teach us about doing history otherwise, moving through crisis, and the queer and racial politics of aesthetic form, I argue that this work enacts a vital minoritarian ethics, even as its ability to surprise invites us to embrace improvisatory practices of both meaning-making and survival.
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