Moving through crisis in Mariana Valencia's Solo B.

In this essay, I spend time with Mariana Valencia's 2020 video-performance Solo B, which was (re)imagined for an online environment when her live commission for The Shed in New York City was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Asking what Solo B can teach us about doing history otherwise, moving through crisis, and the queer and racial politics of aesthetic form, I argue that this work enacts a vital minoritarian ethics, even as its ability to surprise invites us to embrace improvisatory practices of both meaning-making and survival. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]