In this session at The Roundtable, we chat with Christopher Velasco, a photographer, teacher, and performance artist, about numerous topics related to the art of drag and his drag persona Krystal Lake Carrington.
Christopher Velasco is an LA-based artist, working primarily in photography and performance art. Christopher has the artist world's bonafides, such as an MFA, exhibitions galore, and performances, and is a photography instructor as well as co-trustee of The Laura Aguilar Trust. As a queer Chicano artist, Christopher’s impact is felt in part through how he incorporates his “queer brown body with horror and camp aesthetics.” We see this in particular with his drag persona Krystal Lake Carrington.
While drag has had something of a “mainstream” breakthrough in recent years, it is a longstanding subversive queer art form that reckons with gender and pushes at cisheteronormative boundaries to playfully critique this silly society and fake gender norms that we try to make everyone follow. When artists like Christopher approach drag, something special and interesting and delightfully weird is bound to come out of it.
We talk with Christopher in this episode of The Roundtable about:
His art practice in photography and performance
Using photography to present Krystal Lake Carrington to the world and tell stories through her, as well as Christopher’s inspirations for her
Drag as a transgressive art form, including a dish sesh about Dragula and plenty of boobie mentions
Queer mentors and mentorship in teaching and in life
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