In a time of mass extinction and colonial violence; five queer artists from lineages of Philippines, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Taiwan and China, will bury something inherited from empire they are ready to leave behind. Threading together a tapestry of song, film, movement, theater, poetry and mythology, they will take us on a journey of reclaiming intimacy with the land, personal and collective healing, and the building of queer liberatory futures. Join us as we plant the seeds of a new world that will grow from the wreckage of the old.

This 70 minute collaborative show is a part of treya lam’s “otherland” - a ritual that utilizes a chamber-folk song cycle, spoken word, movement and film to: process the loss of a parent or loved one; explore radical self-acceptance; and ultimately find collective healing.

co-created by:
Denice Frohman
Jess X Snow
Marie Lloyd Paspe
treya lam
Huda Asfour

co-sponsored by Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University and Poets & Writers.

treya lam is a composer, interdisciplinary performing and recording artist, and curator whose intersecting identities inform and ignite their work. lam’s voice culminates in liberation-oriented songwriting and environmental scores throughout solo and collaborative work across disciplines that “perfectly captures the mixture of love, loss and hope” (Smithsonian Magazine). treya’s debut album Good News was created entirely by womxn and released via Kaki King’s label. As an active member of the Resistance Revival Chorus, their song “Dawn” was featured on the RRC’s album This Joy alongside Rhiannon Giddens and released on Righteous Babe Records. They have been a OneBeat Fellow, Joe’s Pub Working Group resident, and NYCLU Artist Ambassador. @treyalam

Huda Asfour, is a Palestinian musician whose music, through the tenderness of her oud and the lyricism of her compositions, challenges taboos and stereotypes. A polymath with works in the fields of music, biomedical engineering, signal and image processing, and social work, she has toured the world and has released two studio albums: Mars, Back and Forth”(2011) and Kouni (2018). @hudasmusic

Jess X Snow is a non-binary filmmaker, mural artist, poet and of the JiangXi Chinese diaspora whose body of work explores migration, kinships across cultures and species, and abolitionist futures. Recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film, their genre-bending short films unveil how flawed Asian queers live, heal and refuse with bold visuals and poetic lyricism.  @jessxsnow

Marie Lloyd Paspe is a Filipina-American choreographer, dancer, vocalist, educator, and writer retrieving and re-imagining lost memories sown into the genetic cartographies of the brown Southeast Asian body. Marie is a performer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company since 2018, Bessie awarded for Outstanding Choreography for contributions to the BTJ/AZ production of "Deep Blue Sea,” 2024 Harlem Stage WaterWorks Emerging Artist, and the 2022 Asian American Arts Alliance Jadin Wong Fellow.

Denice Frohman is a poet and performer from New York City. A Pew Fellow and former Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, she’s received support from CantoMundo, Headlands Center for the Arts and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. Recently, she debuted her one-woman show, Esto No Tiene Nombre, which centers the oral histories of Latina lesbian elders. She lives in Philadelphia. @denicefrohman

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Photo Credit: Jess X Snow