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TOLG (The Other Lady Gaga) Project

Music and Performances

TOLG (The Other Lady Gaga) Project: Dear Sol and Framing Dagli

Series of Performance Videos and Zines | Please note: This video may require you to sign in to YouTube due to platform policies. If signing in directly doesn’t work, click the "Watch on YouTube" button (at the bottom left of the video frame on desktop) for easier access.
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Mahal Kong Sol (Dear Sol), a series of epistolary letters first published as Facebook status updates in their Filipino original which were addressed to Sol, the imagined personification of the 255-year old castle of the Akademie Schloss Solitude where Stefani was an alumna artist-in-residence. This page includes 7 performance videos from the series. While Framing Dagli is an autobiographical poems and pictures, reflecting the trans approach to poem, story and writing.
Artist

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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