Together, Inéz Nunez de Arco and Javier Stell-Frésquez are co-producers of the Weaving Spirits Festival of Two-Spirit Performance, where they create cultural space for Indigenous, queer, trans and Two-Spirit communities through multidisciplinary art, performance and collective care. Rooted in community organizing, experimental performance and cultural infrastructure, their work connects Indigenous futurisms, ancestral memory and contemporary movement practices in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
Inéz Nunez de Arco (she/they, ella/elle) is a Q’iwa multidisciplinary artist and community infrastructuralist of detribalized Aymara, Eastern Slavic and French ancestry. Born and working on Chochenyo territory in Oakland, Calif., and rooted in Chuquiago Marka, La Paz, Bolivia, she has spent more than a decade organizing, painting and creating sound work centered on autonomous Q/T/2S+ BIPOC cultural spaces. Their practice is shaped by accountability to past and future generations.
Javier Stell-Frésquez, a two-spirit performance artist, dancer, curator, filmmaker, writer and cultural organizer, is of Piru and Tigua Pueblo and mixed-race, detribalized Xicanx heritage from El Paso, Texas. She holds a Bachelor of Science in environmental science with honors in Chican@ Studies from Stanford University and brings that interdisciplinary perspective to queer experimental performance, event production, outreach, development and strategic planning. She also serves Indigenous communities in the Bay Area as a board member of BAAITS.