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BMW Tate Live: Performance Room – Emily Roysdon

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Artist talk by Emily Roysdon, published by BMW Tate Live in May 2012

Queer feminist artist Emily Roysdon (USA) was selected as one of the artists to make a performance for the first series of performances at BMW Tate Live’s new performance room. She created a queer feminist performance together with a large group of volunteers for live streaming at BMW Tate Live. All the people who took part in this art project are self identified feminists or queer people.
BMW Tate Live is a cooperation between BMW (the car company) and the Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London. Both are looking for new possibilities to reach a new audience online.

The video below concists of the performance (app. 12 min) and a talk after the performance in which Emily Roysdon talks about the process of creating the performance and mass correography, and answers questions from the viewers.


The video performance by Emily Roysdon is also awailable for online viewing at BMW Tate Live.

Related Link
Emily Roysdon’s online portfolio

“Sõnastamata lood” / Untold Stories

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Press photo: Untold Stories“Sõnastamata lood” / Untold Stories
May 8 – 26, 2010
Opening: May 7 at 18:00
Tallinna Kunstihoone, K-P 12-18
Vabaduse väljak 6
Tallinn, Estonia
Wed-Sun 12-18

Press release by Anders Härm, Rebeka Põldsam & Airi Triisberg

You are cordially welcome to the opening of Untold Stories on Saturday May 7, 2011 at 6 pm.

Artists:
Malin Arnell & Kajsa Dahlberg & Johanna Gustavsson & Fia-Stina Sandlund in collaboration with Zoe Leonard, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Sezgin Boynik & Kalle Hamm & Minna L. Henriksson & Dzamil Kamanger, Liisi Eelmaa & Minna Hint, Conny Karlsson, Dagmar Kase, Kiwa & Terje Toomistu, M.L., Marcus Lindeen, Karin Michalski & Sabina Baumann, Nallem, Flemming Rolighed, Emily Roysdon, Jaanus Samma, Mariá Takács, Mare Tralla, Anna-Stina Treumund.

Participants of the Eventprogram:
A.K. Burns & A.L. Steiner, Kajsa Dahlberg, Kaspars Goba & Ieva Ubele, Ana Hoffner, Kiwa & Terje Toomistu, Robert Kulpa, Karin Michalski, Aurora Reinhard, Mariá Takács and many others.

curators: Anders Härm, Rebeka Põldsam, Airi Triisberg
architect: Karli Luik
graphic design: Jaanus Samma

The contemporary art exhibition titled Untold Stories, which is part of both the European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011 and the Diversity Enriches project focuses on the problems of sexual minorities, primarily as they relate to social, political and historical issues. The exhibition is accompanied by a diverse programme of events that includes discussions, screenings, and presentations. Untold Stories is almost the only project in the Capital of Culture programme that deals with the theme of sexual minorities. The exhibition is also collaborating with the Diversity Enriches project and the week of LGBT solidarity and culture – The Festival of Expanding Your World – which will take place from June 6th to 12th.

The works on display at the exhibition approach the topic primarily from a documentary viewpoint, by telling stories about homophobia and representations of homosexuality in Estonia, the everyday problems of sexual minorities in the workplace or as parents, and the cultural history of lesbians and gays during the socialist period in Eastern Europe. The stories are told by analysing single cases or by dealing with an entire era or cultural mindset.

'Out', photo by Mare Tralla, Estonia, 2011

‘Out’, photo by Mare Tralla, Estonia, 2011

The exhibition is framed by a queer-feminist point of departure. Next to topics related to lesbians and gays, it also focuses on other often marginalised sexualities, such as bi-, trans- and intersexuality. The emphasis on the letter combination LGBTQI indicates the complexity of sexual and gender positions, against the background of which the following subjects are examined: the narrowness of binary gender roles, the constructed nature of gendered bodies, and the hard work involved in fitting or not fitting into the gender roles recognised by society.

The third set of topics at the exhibitions deals with the discourse on so-called “repressive tolerance”, the relations between the queer movement and the public at large at the political level of self-expression. Also under examination are the dichotomy between the power of sexual minorities (primarily over themselves and their bodies) and the inability (to validate themselves), and the possibilities/impossibilities of participating in public life and politics. In this context, the phenomenon of homonormativity and the multiple marginalisations of minorities among themselves are also dealt with.

The project also tries to take its theme outside the exhibition hall, and vice versa, by bringing events into the exhibition hall to change it into social space. Therefore, an extensive programme of additional events accompanies the exhibition. As a rule, the event programme will take place on Thursdays at 6 pm and information about them is available on the Kunsthalle website at www.kunstihoone.ee. [The first event will be short film screening and artist talk with Karin Michalski and Aurora Reinhard taking place May 8, 2011, 16:00 at Tallinna Kunstihoone, Vabaduse väljak 6, Tallinn, Estonia].

Designer Jaanus Samma and architect Karli Luik have tried to use the graphics and architectural design in order to create an experimental “queer space”, which would support the exhibition’s ideological point of departure. Because an in-depth visit to the exhibition may be time-consuming, it will be possible to visit the Kunsthalle twice with the same ticket. Please contact the Kunstahalle ticket office for more information.

We thank: Estonian Cultural Endowment, British Council, Estonian Ministry of Culture, Kulturkontakt Nord, Metropol hotel, Sõprus cinema, Fellin Furniture, Estonian National Agency for Youth in Action Programme, Human Rights Center.

Further information:
Anders Härm
6442818
anders(at)kunstihoone.ee

Rebeka Põldsam
rebekap(at)gmail.com

Airi Triisberg
airi_triisberg(at)yahoo.com
www.kunstihoone.ee

Modern Women – Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art

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Eso!!
The opera lovers shout ‘Bravo!’ when they have heard a great opera aria. Eso!! the tango dancers’ acclamation, was the first thought that came to me, when I learned that MoMA has started looking the role, which women has played in the history of Museum of Modern Art in New York and realized that the MoMA has neglected telling the story about the female (feminist) artists. After 5 years of research they have published a richly illustrated art book/lexicon titled: Modern Women – women artists at the Museum of Modern Art. 48 scollars have contributed to the book with essays about women artists.

Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art
The landmark publication ‘Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art’, in which the museum now openly discusses gender issues, and how instrumental women have been in advancing the arts to where they are today, is the greatest piece of art news, which I have heard in 2010. – Now the museum is finally taking all the feminist artists, who have voiced their concern about the museums (subconscious or deliberate) strategy of giving more space and attention to male artists than women artists, seriously.

Works of art made by women (straight, lesbian, queer, white, black, or…) tell very interesting stories. Stories, which shouldn’t be forgotten by the museums and the main stream art world. The fact that MoMA, which is a role model for many museums, is about to set a new standard makes me smile and dance at my computer.

In the video below you can hear Michelle Elligott, museum activist and researcher talk about her work with the book Modern Women – women artists at the Museum of Modern Art.

I haven’t got my copy of the book yet, but I have had a quick look at book’s index of artists, (the “MoMA the hall of fame of female artists”), and I have picked the following artists, which may be of interest to lesbian and queer art lovers:

BERENICE ABBOTT (USA, 1898 – 1991), SADIE BENNING (USA, born 1973), CLAUDE CAHUN (France 1894 – 1954), LEONOR FINI (Italy, 1907 – 1996), SU FRIEDRICH (USA, born 1954), EILEEN GRAY (Ireland, 1878, 1976), GUERRILLA GIRLS (American group of radical feminist artists founded in 1985),
BARBARA HAMMER (USA, born 1939), HANNAH HÖCH (Germany, 1889 – 1978), FRIDA KAHLO (Mexico, 1907 – 1954), KÄTHE KOLLWITZ (Germany 1867 – 1945), GERMAINE KRULL (1897 – 1985), AGNES MARTIN (Canada, 1912 – 2004), TINA MODOTTI (Italy, 1896 – 1942), GEORGIA O’KEEFFE (USA, 1887 – 1986), EMILY ROYSDON (USA, 1977), CINDY SHERMAN (USA, born 1954), JOAN SNYDER (USA, born 1940), GINGER BROOKS TAKAHASHI (USA, born 1977), and RIDYKEULOUS (an American collaborative art project founded by A.L. Steiner and Nicole Eisenman).

For more details go to the list of all the artists in the book at MoMA’s website.

Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art
Cornelia Butler (Editor, Introduction), Alexandra Schwartz (Editor), Griselda Pollock (Introduction)
Hardcover: 512 pages
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York (June 30, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 087070771X
ISBN-13: 978-0870707711

New Lesbian Art Links – USA

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I have updated Feminine Moments’ index of Lesbian Art Links with links to the web galleries of the following queer American artists. Photopgraphers: Angela Jimenez, Emily Roysdon, Erica Beckman, Megan Holmes, Molly Landreth, Sarah Baley and Tammy Rae Caland. Painter Jeeti Singh, printmaker Daisy Eneix and performer and playwright Valerie Mason John.

Enjoy!

'QUEER GAZE' Art Exhibition at Fontanelle Gallery, Portland, USA

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Photo by Grit Hachmeister, 2005Image (right) : Grit Hachmeister, Starkes Mädchen, 2005

‘QUEER GAZE’ consists of queer art Works by Sarah Baley, Erica Beckman, Tammy Rae Carland, Zackary Drucker, Luke Gilford, Grit Hachmeister, Megan Holmes, Angela Jimenez, Molly Landreth, Amos Mac, Finn Paul, Emily Roysdon, A.L. Steiner, Lorenzo Triburgo, and Azsa West. You can see the group photography exhibition at Fontanelle Gallery, 205 SW Pine Street, Portland OR, 97204, USA, November 5-28, 2009.

Preview Wednesday:
November 4th, 6-8pm
Opening reception:
Thursday, November 5th, 6-9pm

Musical performances Thursday:
November 19th, 8pm

The Fontanelle Gallery press release reads:
“Fontanelle Gallery is pleased to present Queer Gaze, a group photography exhibition featuring images of queer people by queer photographers. This show offers a new examination and response to theories of “male gaze”, as originally described by Laura Mulvey as the cinematic depiction of voyeurism and objectification of a female by a heterosexual male viewer. Queer Gaze explores the gaze from woman to woman or queer to queer, as well as the way that many photographers use their own visage or that of their friends to subvert traditional expectations of portraiture.

The act of taking ownership of one’s own identity and personal beliefs and how these beliefs are enacted in the public realm is a political act that helps shape modern feminism. Here we present a collection of perspectives and experiences that will be at once informative and titillating, while also empowering.

Feminist photographers exploring the theory of male gaze have often turned the camera on themselves, demanding that viewers take notice of their role of dominance in how they are presented and viewed. By utilizing elements of masquerade, role-playing and societal commentary as devices to investigate identity through self-portraiture, many photographers are able to explore their own personal politics. Clearly, the issue of self-representation is not restricted to literal self-portraiture. The issue is not what one looks like, but how and by whom one is represented.”

Related:
Fontanelle Gallery’s website