Chantal Vorobei Thieves

Chantal Vorobei Thieves is a multimedia artist who creates to both understand what it is to be & to stay alive. She writes of spies & prophets, Y2K conspiracies & the relationship between abstraction, perception & interoception, using her body as a question mark meant to disturb our assumptions about what we say we know about what we are. Titles of her recent works include, Piano Lessons, Memory, Vein, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Terrorist, Mulata She-male Gets it From All Sides, & Not One & Simple, or, What Would James Baldwin Do? She was resident at the Queer Materials Lab, Translab, The Performance Intensive, PAPA & PAAFF. She is founding a church devoted to the worship & study of art called The Church of the Quarter-Closed Eyes.