In this episode of You Can’t Eat Art , Clara Kamunde is in conversation with Beatrice Gosse an interdisciplinary artist whose practice intersects contemporary dance, film and performance. Their work dives deep into queer identity, movement, filmmaking, and the generative messiness of chaos. — About Beatrice Gosse: Beatrice Gosse (she/they) is a director, creative director, and performance artist based in Los Angeles (the unceded land of the Tongva/Kizh/Gabrielino peoples). They examine the intersection between dance, technology, and filmmaking, —devouring and transmuting ideas of queer identity, stomping on the social architecture of Transness, and encouraging unraveling, reordering, and chaos inside the body. As a film director, they have presented film works at SciArc: A Queer Query, NewFest, Palm Springs International Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, and Leeds International Film Festival, and have been featured on Nowness Asia and Dance Magazine. As a creative director with more than a decade of experience in art direction, they’ve crafted commercial, documentary, narrative, and experiential projects for brands, creative agencies, and production companies— working across strategy, development, production, and post-production. They’ve led workshops on creative development and advertising technology for PSIFF and Minorities in Film. Their dance work includes collaborations with visionary choreographers like Ryan Heffington, Nina McNeely, Jasmine Albuquerque-Croissant, Amy Gardner, Denna Thomsen, Sierra Fujita, and Jas Lin, shaping projects with artists such as Mitski, Kesha, Cassils, Enrique Agudo, Big Freedia, Disiniblud, Miss Velvet, and Tyga. Spanning commercial, film, television, stage, and underground-experimental performance, their cross-medium work harnesses movement to explore identity, challenge censorship, and create intentional spaces for expression, healing, and rage within queer and gender-expansive communities. — About Clara Kamunde: Clara Kamunde is an Oakland-based, Kenyan-born cultural worker practicing at the intersection of arts education and social justice. Her career began with the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles where, as a grantee for the Artist-In-The-Community program, she collaborated with community organizations to produce and present site-integrated programming in traditionally under-served communities throughout Greater Los Angeles. She is a Marcus Curatorial Fellow at Montalvo Arts Center. — About the Lucas Artists Residency Program: Established in 1939, Montalvo Arts Center is home to the third oldest residency program in the United States. In 2004, Montalvo re-committed to its support of artists by opening a new, state-of-the-art facility, relaunching as the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program. The residency is dedicated to providing artists with a flexible and expansive space in which to create, encouraging the creative process, risk taking, collaboration, and cross-disciplinary investigation of contemporary issues. The LAP is a hybrid model that supports uninterrupted time to develop new work, while offering opportunities to share ideas and projects through public programming and partnerships. For more info about the residency, visit our website. Follow the LAP @lucasartres Credits: “Syndrome” from the album Tide’s Arising Instrumentals (Mashibeats, 2024) used with permission of LAP 2023 CA Fellow Mark de Clive-Lowe; © Mark de Clive-Lowe/Mashibeats Podcast cover art created by Olivia Esparza© Montalvo Arts Center, 2025
