photo credit: Eugene Tang

Kezia Waters is a storytelling artist from what they like to call the “Deep South.” They’re an MFA Studio Art Performance candidate at School of The Art Institute of Chicago and they also hold an MFA in Acting from Ohio University. Time Traveling is not only a subject matter in most of their work but a method of creation/ a praxis/ a pedagogy. They push against, overlap and reject syncopation often. Growing up in The Black Pentecostal Church tradition. They think of their work as trying to find that which is holy, whole, holistic and/ or holds within Black and Queer functionality. They do this through spiritual surrealism and traditional folkloric techniques and have created/ fostered techniques based on Mythology archetypes, ADOS rituals, Underground Queer performance culture and visual aesthetics combined with Trance polyrhythms. They are also a member of Suspended Culture, a Chicago based Group of Black identifying artist.