Angelo Madsen is standing on a bridge in New York. He is wearing a black t-shirt, black cap, and has light tan skin with tattoos, piercings, and a mustache.

Angelo Madsen

Burlington, VT

Angelo Madsen (previously known as Madsen Minax 2004-2020) is a multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, and educator. His projects consider how human relationships are woven through personal and collective histories, cultures, and kinships, with specific attention to subcultural experience, phenomenology, and the politics of desire. Madsen’s works have shown at Sundance, Berlinale, Toronto Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, British Film Institute, and museums, galleries, libraries, basements, and community centers around the world. He has participated in residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Pioneer Works, Headlands, and others.

His film, North By Current (2021), aired on season 34 of POV (PBS), was nominated for an Independent Spirit award, and won the Cinema Eye Honors Spotlight award, Best Writing award from the IDA and numerous festival jury prizes. A New York Times Critics Pick, North By Current has been called “A beautiful, complex wonder of a film,” by Rolling Stone and “A titanic work” by Criterion. Madsen currently teaches video art at the University of Vermont, is a Queer|Art Mentor, a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2023 USA Artists Fellow.

OUT OF ME INTO YOU


Angelo Madsen is an artist who works with his friends and family to think through human relationality and the politics of desire.

Artist Bio

In three intersecting vignettes, OUT OF ME INTO YOU traces injection/extraction through symbiotic human-animal relationships, considering both the realms of mythic fantasy and real-life infrastructure. The activities documented include those that break the skin barrier, such as medicinal leeching and processes of “purification” via wastewater treatment.

Between and within these abject encounters, a new substance is being generated, complete with its own properties. From the realm of queer imagination, how do our insides transmutate and what happens on the outside when they do?

This work draws on Dominque Laporte’s History of Shit to imagine human waste as fodder for alchemical processes (magick), and Andre Lorde’s notion of the erotic, wherein the erotic is not reduced to mere sensation, but is an internal experience, a lens through which to understand ourselves intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually (also magick).