Angelo Madsen received the 2027 UVP Residential Commission and will be in-residence at Light Work in April 2027 to work on his project Out of Me, Into You (working title), a site-specific video work exploring the ecosystems that emerge as a result of symbiotic human-to-animal encounters.

Madsen will work with scientists and practitioners who collaborate with macro and micro organisms, from leeches and worms to aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, in the transformation of organic waste, using these processes and sites of exchange as a platform to ask a question from the realm of queer imagination: “How do our insides transmutate and what happens on the outside when they do?

About the Artist

Angelo Madsen (previously known as Madsen Minax or Angelo Madsen Minax 2005-2024) is a multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, and educator. His projects consider how human relationships are woven through personal and collective histories, cultures, and kinships, with specific attention to subcultural experience, phenomenology, ruralness, and the politics of desire. Madsen’s works have shown at Berlinale, Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Moving Image, and dozens of documentary, LGBT and experimental film festivals around the world. He is a Creative Capital Fellow (2025), a United States Artists Fellow (2023), a Guggenheim Fellow (2022), and has participated in residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Pioneer Works, Headlands, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and others. His film, “North By Current” (2021), aired on season 34 of POV (PBS), was nominated for an Independent Spirit award, and won the Cinema Eye Honors Spotlight award, Best Writing award from the IDA and numerous festival jury prizes.

Artist’s website: angelomadsen.com

About the UVP Residential Commission

This piece is being created as part of the UVP Residential Media Arts Commission program. Madsen’s proposal was selected from an open call by a jury that included past UVP commissioned artist, paleobiologist, and writer Nicolas Baird of The Institute for Queer Ecology and Mira Adoumier, researcher, curator, artist, and co-founder of The Camelia Committee.