Gad Yola - HISB Visiting Artist - Spring 2026

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Weekend Video Workshop

Bienvenidos al museo/Welcome to the Museum:

QUEER PERSPECTIVES & DECOLONIAL AESTHETICS

with Gad Yola "Travesti del Perú"

Join Madrid-based, Afro-Peruvian, multidisciplinary drag artist GAD YOLA for a critical and creative workshop exploring video production and editing as aesthetic and political practices. The project will produce a video installation that will reimagine campus through a queer, migrant, and Latin American perspective. Prior video editing experience NOT required.

Saturday, March 28th - 3-8pm

Sunday, March 29th - 1-6pm

Staller/Fine Arts 3220

Intersections of Drag in Europe, Latin America, and the United States

TALK, INSTALLATION, & DRAG SHOW

Thursday, April 2nd at 4pm

Staller Theater 3

Join Gad Yola for a celebration of drag performance and its cross cultural-legacy.

Following a series of audiovisual workshops, Gad Yola and participating students will showcase a video installation that brings together art, education, and activism. Gad Yola will also present: Intersections of Drag in Europe, Latin America, and the US: a talk that frames drag as a transnational form of resistance. The artist will then perform original music from their debut album, Travesti del Perú, to be followed by a reception, serving treats from local Peruvian bakery, Jessy’s Pastries.

If you plan to attend, please RSVP here.

Gad Yola (She/They) is an Afro-Peruvian, multidisciplinary drag artist (Lima, 1995) based in Madrid. They held the Felipa Manuela ArtisticResearch Residency (2021) and a Residency at the Romper en caso de... (2021), which produced the performances “El drag es marrón” and“Hipernariz”. In 2023, after gaining popularity in the Madrid drag scene and co-directing/producing numerous music videos, they releasedtheir first albumTravesti del Perú, recorded in Lima and Madrid. Through a decolonial framework, Gad Yola uses music, performance, andaudiovisuals to tell the stories of queer, migrant, and racialized people in Spain; and show how these narratives connectacross borders and communities in Latin America.

The Spring 2026 Visiting Artist in Residence is hosted by the Humanities Institute and sponsored by the Center for Changing Systems of Power, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, and the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.