“Deepfaked Ocaña Wishing Me Goodnight” is a celebration of José Perez Ocaña (1947-1983), the Spanish artist, performer, anarchist and queer activist. We meet him as a ghost – a deepfake – during a poetic and diaristic journey, revisiting queer historiographies under the Spanish democratic transition. Ocaña’s apparition allows other guardian angels around us to be seen, reminding us of subversion, heritage, and pleasure.
“first and most important / dream our missing friends forward”
– Glitter in My Wounds by CA Conrad
https://rietvelduncut.rietveldacademie.nl/2021/deep- faked-ocana-wishing-me-goodnight
Graphics by Tomás Queiroz
Mastering by Maja Chiara Faber
A project of Lucía Vives and Eloy Cruz del Prado for Rietveld UnCut