Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán

HE/THEY

Multimedia Artist

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán (he/they) is a solo/collaborative multimedia artist, activist, critic and educator orchestrating visual, acoustic, performative, textual, and terrestrial techniques. A Tulsa Artist Fellow and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and Movement Research Artists of Color Council Core Member, he is the author of three poetry/photography chapbooks, Archipiélagos; Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking; and South Bronx Breathing Lessons. Bodhrán is editor of the international queer Indigenous issue of Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought, the first global queer/trans Indigenous collection, with 93 contributors from around the world. He is co-editor of the Native dance/movement/ performance issue of Movement Research Performance Journal, with 42 international Indigenous contributors. Bodhrán organized an international womanist/queer/trans Indigenous roundtable dialogue on issues of water for Hawai'i Review. Co-founder of the world's first transgender film festival, which became the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, he organized the world's first transgender Arab roundtable dialogue for Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary & Art Journal. His visual art is exhibited in New York, Florida, Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma. His videos have been shared across the U.S. and Australia. Bodhrán convened a Movement Research Studies Project, "Decolonial Design, Indigenous Choreography, and Multicorporeal Sovereignties: A Womanist/Queer/Trans Indigenous Movement Dialogue," which featured womanist, queer, and transgender Native North American, Indigenous Pacific, and Palestinian artists. He was also curator and co-organizer of the multimedia dance performance and dialogue, "Oceanic Currents: Indigenous Pacific Islander Movement Artists," as part of the "Redefining Practice" Town Hall Series of Dance/NYC. He continues to work with Indigenous, womanist, and queer/trans communities of color to create compelling multimedia dance works. He has received scholarships/fellowships from CantoMundo, Macondo, Radius of Arab American Writers, Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, and Lambda Literary.

Photo Credit:

Melissa Lukenbaugh & Tulsa Artist Fellowship