Queering the Collection: Jacob Budenz

We invite you to experience a ritualistic performance by multidisciplinary artist Jacob Budenz that serves as a queer apology for the divine masculine. Their performance will activate and challenge the relationship between Medieval representations of Christian European patriarchal figures and representations of the Earth as mother in the light of the escalating climate crisis and the advent of American imperialism.

Following the performance, engage in a conversation between Budenz and Christine Sciacca, Curator of European Art, 300-1400 CE, as they explore intersections of queerness and mysticism that have inspired work across Budenz’s practice.