Queer Skate Research Lab: Experimentations in Martial Arts

- PACT Salon: RIOT! 2019, Sydney, Australia

Queer Skate Research Lab is an experimental art project exploring radical ways skateboarding can be used to empower queer and gender non-conforming people through strengthening connections to our bodies, communities and environment.

- Performers and Collaborators: Connor Xia, Leo Tsao, Nolan Murphy, Ubee Autumn

- Photography: Jodie Sim

Queer Skate Research Lab: Experimentations in Martial Arts

- Performers and Collaborators: Connor Xia, Leo Tsao, Nolan Murphy, Ubee Autumn

- Photography: Jodie Sim

Leo Tsao (he/him) is a Taiwanese Australian artist working predominantly with film and movement. Through practice as research methodology, his work is experimental and open ended. He often brings together disparate and unlikely disciplines and collaborators through formal explorations to rupture expectations, heteronormativity, cisgenderism and whiteness to create new modes of perception and possibilities.

His art practice often crosses over with his work in facilitation and advocacy as director of Camp Skateboarding and his work in Trans Health.

He has been awarded the 2019 Inner West Art and Culture grant, first prize for the International Competition for Intermedia Artwork in Kraków, Poland and exhibited in Carriageworks, FirstDraft, PACT, Dance House and more.

Leo Tsao (he/him) is a Taiwanese Australian artist working predominantly with film and movement. Through practice as research methodology, his work is experimental and open ended. He often brings together disparate and unlikely disciplines and collaborators through formal explorations to rupture expectations, heteronormativity, cisgenderism and whiteness to create new modes of perception and possibilities.

His art practice often crosses over with his work in facilitation and advocacy as director of Camp Skateboarding and his work in Trans Health.

He has been awarded the 2019 Inner West Art and Culture grant, first prize for the International Competition for Intermedia Artwork in Kraków, Poland and exhibited in Carriageworks, FirstDraft, PACT, Dance House and more.

2024

¤ If the light at the end of the tunnel flickers...

¤ Untethering

2021

¤Strategic Choreographies

¤ Queer Skate Research Lab II: Workshops

2019

¤ Camp Skateboarding

¤ don't call it a lover's quarrel

2018

¤ Four Walls

COLLABORATIONS

¤ Animate Loading: Art Gallery of New South Wales - Sydney Modern

¤ Animate Loading: Pari Gallery

¤ Offerings: Gesture Share