Stefani J Alvarez

The Philippines

Stefani J. Alvarez is a transdisciplinary and migrant artist. Born in Cagayan de Oro in the southern Philippines. She has been an overseas Filipino worker based in Saudi Arabia for 14 years from 2008 to 2022. Selected as an artist-in-residence in Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2023-2024. She is currently working on her latest experimental creative nonfiction anthology, Transfinity Diary. Her performative and installation art project, The Other Lady Gaga (TOLG), explores her artistic framework through aural essays, visual poetry, and mixed media. In these works, she documents her autobiographical diasporic dagli, embodying a transgender space of geobodies, borderlands, and identities across (her)story.

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