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Milou Stella

@miloustella.bsky.social

She/they 🏳️‍🌈 | Multimedia artist | current show: Glitchy Kinship, Winchester Gallery (UK), 31/1/25 - 15/3/25 - follow for quotes, visuals and a bit of process. Quite nerdy.

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Milou Stella @miloustella.bsky.social · 2y ago

Keep going back to this book. It’s an addiction. “But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned us otherwise. “Love is not consolation,” she wrote. “It is light.” #maggienelson #bluets

Milou Stella @miloustella.bsky.social · 2y ago

Found out about this stone. Fell for it. Apparently a BIsmuth. Want one now. #stone

Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yesterday was wonderful: the UoS PGR LGBTQIA+ network spent a morning making mini-zines with @megenjm.bsky.social, amidst Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship at the Winchester Gallery (created and curated by the excellent @lizziereed.bsky.social and @miloustella.bsky.social).

A tabletop covered in a selection of mini-zines and materials used to make them such as pens, scissors, felt, ribbons, paper, and a deck of tarot cards entitled Big Gay Tarot Deck. One of the mini-zines has the outline of a head and where a face would be, there is text that says Your Face Here. Another mini-zine uses a keffiyeh pattern as its background and has text that reads: what to do if you want to help Palestine but don't know where to start. There is also a mini-zine about radical queer demo chants.

A section of the gallery with fluffy white carpet and pillows. There is a projection on the back wall showing a microscopic image of a cell. Below the projected image, on the floor, is an object that looks like a huge syringe made of soft textiles. The word trigger is embroidered onto the side of the object. There is a long pink piece of material that protrudes from the end like a tongue.

A wall of the gallery painted to look like a fridge door. Magnets with a different words on them have been assembled to make sentences. Me heal body. Kindle your mad soil. Let him amuse our complex life. Communicate joke until delicate copy kinship.

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 2y ago

Incubator 4 Anothertime by @miloustella.bsky.social is available to immerse yourself in at Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship at the Winchester Gallery. Open Tues-Saturday from midday until 15th March the exhibition invites your reflection on, and participation in temporary spaces of kinship

Milou Stella @miloustella.bsky.social · 2y ago

Beautiful concepts from Reading ‘Staying with The Trouble’ now over two years ago. #donnaharaway #stayingwiththetrouble

The image is of a quote from Staying With The Trouble of Donna Haraway: Sympoiesis is a simple word; it means ‘making-with.’ Nothing makes itself; nothing is really autopoietic or self-organizing. In times of trouble, staying with the trouble requires learning to be truly present, not as a vanishing pivot between awful or Edenic pasts and apocalyptic or salvific futures, but as mortal critters entwined in myriad unfinished configurations of places, times, matters, meanings.”

Milou Stella @miloustella.bsky.social · 2y ago

Amazing In Conversation yesterday at Winchester school of Art with @lizziereed.bsky.social discussing our collaboration, the installation Incubator 4 Anothertime, and so many good questions from the audience. And @lenamattheis.bsky.social from Queer Lit podcast was there: the beginning of it all! 🤩

Lena Mattheis @lenamattheis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Best response to the question of the future of queer theory: "The future is neverending." @miloustella.bsky.social in conversation with @lizziereed.bsky.social

Milou Stella @miloustella.bsky.social · 2y ago

Slowly ending my Insta era and beginning to share some sound bits. Field recordings and texts I wrote and found samples. And of course enough glitch to make me wow.🤩 #art #audiovisualart #artinprogress

Milou Stella @miloustella.bsky.social · 2y ago

Can’t wait to see all of the Bedtime Stories we’ll be making from these bespoke Fridge Magnet poetry set @lizziereed.bsky.social and I put together. You can add yours by visiting The Winchester Gallery! #art #participatoryart #queeringconnections #winchester

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 2y ago

Glitchy Kinship is well and truly launched! Last night's opening was so wonderful with such a buzzy crowd. Came in this afternoon to a fridge full of stories and got to spend time with some of the invigilators playing with storytelling and character creation through exquisite corpse templates.

Magnets on a painted background. Centred in frame are 5 magnets which reads "scavenge queer softness from resilience"

An A board which shows the exhibition poster. It reads "Queering Connections: glitchy Kinship. 31/1/25-15/3/25"

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 2y ago

My parents are visiting for my Dad's birthday and to see the exhibition so I'm spending some time in the incubator @miloustella.bsky.social

My feet are stretched out over a fluffy white floor. A large soft sculpture with the legend "trigger" is between my feet and the projection which is currently showing white eggs in leaves and twigs

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 2y ago

Incredible review from the wonderful InCommon of the exhibition on now in Winchester @miloustella.bsky.social

In Common@incommon.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Coming out as transgender caused a huge glitch in the way people have thought about me & those relationships. Queering Connections introduced me to far more examples of “glitches” in our relationships" Review - Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship at The Winchester Gallery tinyurl.com/4h99rmec

Milou Stella @miloustella.bsky.social · 2y ago

If in New York… www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/30/a...

American Artist builds on author Octavia Butler’s prescient, dystopian vision

In their new show at Pioneer Works in New York, American Artist reflects on Butler’s most famous series of novels and her archives

theartnewspaper.com

Martin Polley @historymartin.bsky.social · 2y ago

It was great to be at opening of Glitchy Kinship, a collaboration between @lizziereed.bsky.social & @miloustella.bsky.social for @unisouthampton.bsky.social annual Queering Connections event. It's running in The Gallery at Winchester School of Art until 15 March #QueeringConnections #Winchester

An a-frame poster board on the street advertising the Glitchy Kinship exhibition. The poster has pink text and graphics on a dark background.

A wall-mounted text description of the Glitchy Kinship exhibition, in black writing on a white background.

The four speakers at the launch of Glitchy Kinship, standing in a line at the front of a group of people in the Gallery.

A view of people visiting the Glitchy Kinship exhibition, with screens, drop-down text banners, and vitrines.

Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 2y ago

So Incredibly Proud of my AMAZING Colleague @lizziereed.bsky.social for Putting Together this Exhibition on #QueeringConnections and #GlitchyKinship Based on an Ongoing Collaboration with a Visual Artist @miloustella.bsky.social Defo Check it Out ❤️❤️

Milou Stella @miloustella.bsky.social · 2y ago

Glitch Is Error We are the most fantastic and beautiful mistake. -Legacy Russell-

Milou Stella @miloustella.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Glitch is something that extends beyond the most literal technological mechanics: it helps us to celebrate failure as a generative force, a new way to take on the world.” Legacy Russell, Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto

A glitched image mostly mustard that fades into black. You can’t make any objects and has two lights moving upwards and leaving a train of abstraction.

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 2y ago

Oooooh it's exciting suddenly

A slightly different angle from inside the gallery. This time a poster hangs in the centre of the image. It reads "pick ddub dip"

Lizzie Reed@lizziereed.bsky.social · 2y ago

Install, day 1(ish)

Image of a gallery space. In the foreground an A board holds a poster which reads "Queering Connections: glitchy Kinship. 31.1.25 to 15.3.25" the gallery is empty apart from a few tables and vitrines. These are also empty. In it's current form this is an exhibition about absence

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 2y ago

Install day 2. An incubator is forming

Two people sit on the floor surrounded by white cushions and filling. They are filing the cushions. Behind them a projector shows an image of flowers on a wall

Lizzie Reed@lizziereed.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join us at the Winchester Gallery from 5pm on Thursday 30th January for the opening of Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship. We've also got an 'In Conversation' with me (curator) and Milou (artist) on Thurs 6th Feb at 5pm. @unisouthampton.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 2y ago

Install day 3 Deconstruction/reconstruction

Panels with fragmented words hang from the ceiling. Two people are actively hanging one. There are tables covered in drills and wood. The words "deconstruction reconstruction" are just about visible on the end wall

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 2y ago

Milou Stella @miloustella.bsky.social · 2y ago

Been digging for books to read and recommend. Parable of the Sower opens on July 20th, 2024: in it the US is in the throws of social, political, and ecological collapse, at the mercy of national Christian fundamentalism and even a presidential candidate with the slogan "Make America Great Again."

Milou Stella @miloustella.bsky.social · 2y ago

Will be sharing quotes, and visuals from my process. My work is often text based. I might put a bit of face here and there. Tell me what you like.

Lynden 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@lynden.bsky.social · 2y ago

Isa Genzken, Schauspieler, 2013. (Collection Syz, Geneva). "Art should be strong and nonconformist - and most importantly, art should always be personal." #Art #Kunst #IsaGenzken

sa Genzken is a German artist (b. 1948). Schauspieler (2013) is a mixed-media sculpture featuring a mannequin dressed in colorful materials, veils, and wire, seated on a stool.

This work highlights her wit, extraordinary sense of materials, and raw, unpolished aesthetic. Genzken’s mannequins are often adorned with mismatched outfits, cheap accessories, and discarded materials. Through her work, she blends humor and absurdity while also critiquing consumer culture, identity, and performance.

Milou Stella @miloustella.bsky.social · 2y ago

Come and say hi if you’re around in the area! 💋

Milou Stella @miloustella.bsky.social · 2y ago

First day on here. Looking for people I loved and followed on Instagram and FB… Hope to see you!