Nia Nottage (they/them) is an archivist, healthcare activist, and art curator. Their focus includes alternative media, performance practice, sexual subculture, and somatics. They are a co-founder of The Collective Practices Oral History Project: NYC 1980 - 2005, as well as a co-organizer at Come Forever, a garage-space in Brooklyn that houses a public archive, public bathroom, mask non-optional social space, and healthcare mutual aid initiatives. They have exhibited projects in collaboration with The Kitchen (NYC), BOFFO Performance Festival (Fire Island), Arts Project of Cherry Grove (Fire Island), Performa (NYC), Coalition to Protect Chinatown and The LES (NYC), Performance Space New York, Participant Inc (NYC),  Artists Space (NYC), and The Whitney Independent Study Program (NYC).


They participate in an active divestment from spaces that aren’t interested in an ethos of community self-reliance around healthcare. If a space will not build infrastructure to account for inevitable sickness, they cannot collaborate — because they will inevitably be sick. If a space will not take care of them when they’re sick, they can’t invest in it. They reserve that energy to maintain the spaces that maintain their body, aka their life. They currently do organizing work with ACT UP NY and The People’s CDC.



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