The Nomad is a short film animation of artist Enrique Agudo in collaboration with Miwa Espinoza and Michelle Recio.
Shown in a public screening of the National Endowment for the Arts and the SCI-Arc Channel Film series "Queer Perspectives in Architecture", the three-part, short-form film series examines diverse perspectives on aesthetics, practice, alternative histories, and possible futures for queer architecture.
The Nomad is a vessel traveling across the American landscape that houses a matriarchal clan, with the purpose of rewilding and biodiversifying its surroundings. This chariot is more than a home, and a tool, and a form of transport - it portrays the notion that we are guests in a land that cannot be owned. In our world, plants shape human existence and The Nomad reveals a whimsical technological mediation between us and our vegetal environment. Human relationships to Nature are molded by a culture whose definition of “Nature” is biased around homophobia, classicism, sexism, racism and xenophobia to justify its exploitation. Thus, The Nomad presents a speculative illustration of the potential for Queer environmentalism.