A queer, inclusive, costumed dance party

October 27, 2019 | Siblings | Created by Katie Vota

What do you need to feel safe? What do you need to shine?

Armor at the Disco was a queer, inclusive, costumed dance party that invited the public to interact with Katie Vota’s Amor for the Everyday, a collection of wearable art inspired by community responses to the question “What do you need to feel safe?”

In Vota’s words, “My series of work on Armor for the Everyday centers the physical and emotional attacks people (though specifically women, queer, and non-gendered people) face in their day-to-day lives. What armor do we need to meet the challenges we face? Is it functional and protective? Or does it give confidence, bolstering us mentally to face what the world throws our way? As a queer, female-bodied person, there are any number of things I might want armor against…some onslaughts are physical, some emotional, some real, some imagined, some internal, some external… Armor can be anything.”