I’m a current Artist in Residence here at TAC and my art focuses a lot on gold and the construction of value and using textiles as a means to point to historical modes of currency. I’m Francisco echo Eraso and my pronouns are he/him. Isa: Hi echo, I’m really happy to be in conversation with you today about your practice and about your experience here at TAC, would you like to start by introducing yourself?Įcho: Hi Isa, thank you. Isa Rodrigues (she/her) is the co-Executive Director of the Textile Arts Center echo currently lives in Unceded Canarsee Lenapehoking aka Brooklyn, New York and works as the Administrative Assistant for the Disability Futures Fellowship at the Ford Foundation. His work has been presented at a variety of venues including The Flux Factory, Franklin Street Works, Amos Eno Gallery, The Sheila C. He has received a BA/BFA in Visual Studies and Fine Arts from Parsons, The New School. In his woven textile installations, experimental video work and somatic movement practice he patches together the interrelated legacies of extractive capitalism, ornamentation, labor, alchemy, healing and repatriation.Įcho is a Cycle 12 Artist in Residence at the Textile Arts Center and Art and Disability Residency in New York and an upcoming Artist in Residence at 77Art in Vermont. echo’s work makes evident the construction of value through reproductions of gold and allusions to textiles as a form of currency. Some points of the video span around textiles as they are described in the background and some points are interspersed with some footage of echo weaving on a frame loom in his studio.įrancisco (echo) Eraso (he/él) is a disabled, queer, trans, Colombian-American textile artist, writer and performer. In the foreground on the right hand side is the blurry silhouette of Isa’s light face and dark curly hair and her gold hoop earring. This conversation took place on Jat the Textile Arts Center with Francisco echo Eraso and Isa Rodriguesįootage of echo, a white Latinx trans person with their long hair down, wearing a black face mask, gold spiral earrings and a black tank top against a white wall covered with his golden textile art.
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