Oscar Corona

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duro/SUAVE or SOFT/hard

Oscar Corona

A queer performance installation that playfully critiques the gender binary through costumes, props, prompts, interactive audience participation, humor, and drag-inspired exaggeration. Using action words like “Yes,” “No,” “Soft,” and “Hard,” participants embody roles that mock rigid gender norms and heteronormative expectations. By queering public space and inviting spontaneous acts—reciting media lines or drawing idiomatic phrases—this art happening challenges cultural conformity and celebrates fluid, performative identity in a cathartic, communal experience.

 

* onsite 4:30pm – 8:30pm

Oscar Corona (b. 1993) is a queer, first-generation Mexican-American artist from Southern California. Their interdisciplinary work explores marginalized identities, power, and self-perception through video, painting, and sculpture. Influenced by artists like Mike Kelley and Martine Syms, Oscar blends performance, lo-fi mark-making, and casting techniques to create bold, poetic works that reimagine identity and reality with a DIY aesthetic and synesthetic flair.