Aquarius Funkk (they/them) is a interdisciplinary performance artist who creates dynamic work for photo, video, and live events. As a performer, their artistic practice began in Portland, ME, and has continued throughout the US and Mexico.
In exploring the possibilities of the body, Aquarius builds imagery which evokes movements of afrofuturism and radical queer identity. Their work is deeply self-reflective, channeling ideologies of masculinity & femininity through a non-binary queer lens, deconstructing gender, race, social politics. They integrate their experience in graphic arts, photography, costume design, & makeup within their practice, constructing complex personas meant to be viewed as static images,as well as durational installations.
Aquarius has a repertoire of cabaret, burlesque, vogue & conceptual acts. They thrive on improvisation and body intelligence, and their work blends site-specific choreography, radical experimentation, hand detailed costuming, and theatrical makeup. Each performance is uniquely crafted and staged for small venues, theaters, art galleries, nightclubs, festivals, street performance, and any dance floor in between.
Notably, Aquarius has collaborated with performance art troupe La Pocha Nostra both in Mexico and the US, as well as digitally during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have also been featured in Femme Rebelle Magazine, Zahiya Magazine, Ellements Body, Medium Format Magazine, Unvogue Magazine, This: Travel & Style and Revista Fang. Their lifestyle brand, Get Funkked, is an AfroRetroFuturist vision of style, visual art, & performance.