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HETERO Q.B. – INTERNATIONAL VIDEO PROGRAMME

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09.04.2013 – 30.06.2013 the MUSEU NACIONAL DE ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA MUSEU DO CHIADO in Portugal hosts an international programme of events, which showcases women artists, who work with themes ranging from feminism, to lesbianism and transgender.

The artists are: Ana Bezelga, Ana Pérez-Quiroga, Ana Pérez-Quiroga e Patrícia Guerreiro, Ana Pissarra, Carla Cruz, Catarina Saraiva, Célia Domingues, Cristina Regadas, Elisabetta di Sopra, Hong Yane Wang, Itziar Okariz, Joana Bastos, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Maimuna Adam, Mare Tralla, Maria Kheirkhah, Maria Lusitano, Mónica de Miranda, Nilbar Güres, Nisrine Boukhari, Oreet Ashery, Patrícia Guerreiro, Paula Roush & Maria Lusitano, Pushpamala N, Rachel Korman, Razan Akramaw, Rita GT, Roberta Lima, Sükran Moral, Susana Mendes Silva, Tejal Shah and Zanele Muholi.

The programme is curated by Emília Tavares and Paula Roush. Emília Tavares writes that “the selection spans countries and realities that are seen as ‘peripheral’ in relation to classic Euro-American feminist discourses and practices – normally regarded as more progressive defenders of the equality of women and of gender”. See Tavares’ and Roush’s curatorial statements at the museum’s website.

Tejal Shah at dOKUMENTA 13

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Congratulations to queer artist Tejal Shah, India. - Tejal Shah participates in dOCUMENTA 13 with her new multi-channel video installation, Between the Waves. The work is composed of performative film, text, animation and the spacialisation of sound. If you go to Kassel this summer and arrive by train, you must see her video installation at the Central Railway Station.

Between the Waves by Tejal Shah
Venue: Index #161, 1st floor, Southern Wing, Hauptbahnhof, Kassel.
June 7 – September 16, 2012

About Tejal Shah
Tejal Shah is a multi-disciplinary artist working primarily with video, photography, performance, sound and installation. Her work, like herself, is feminist, queer and political. She has exhibited widely in museums, galleries and film festivals. Her photography, video work and installation art questions the normal and the queer, bringing to light the dissonance between norm and, perception of the norm.

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Artist Talk: Tejal Shah at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Forum

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In conjunction with the exhibition Global Feminisms, feminist artists from more than fifty countries discussed or performed their works in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Forum. These artist talks took place during the Center’s opening weekend March 23-25, 2007. Video courtesy of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.

Tejal Shah, India
Indian visula artist and queer activist Tejal Shah talks about her experimental video installation: What are you?  This queer art project deals with the otherness being experienced by the queer, transgendered and transexual community in India. The Hijras (transgender/eunuchs) of India are being treated as ambiguous in-human beings, like an object or an animal, and their lifes as sex workers (this is the only profession which is open to them) make them seem even more queer to the ordinary Indians. 

I saw Tejal’s video installation live at the group show Lost and Found – Queerrying the Archive, at Nikolaj Copenhagen, 2009 and I am happy that the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation has documented and shared this artist inspiring talk by Tejal Shah, which has made me appreciate her work even more.

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Sweden: Queer Art Show And Queer Art Seminars In Umeå

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Lost and Found - Queerrying the Archive:
January 31 – April 25, 2010
at Bildmuseet, Umeå university, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
Opening reception: January 31, 2010 at 14:00
This international group exhibition was first presented by Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, 2009.

Film still from Cecilia Barriga's 'Meeting of Two Queens'

Installation view of ‘Meeting of Two Queens’ by Cecilia Barriga, Nikolaj, Copenhagen 2009. Photo by Feminine Moments

The Lost and Found – Queerying Archive show, which is curated by Jane Rowley and Louise Wolthers, raises questions about how we can create an archive of the private memories of gender, love and sexuality that have been erased by official archives and excluded from the writing of history? How do we record and store feelings and intimacy? Lost and Found presented a series of spectacular, thought-provoking works addressing these issues through artistic visions of histories compiled and performed from a queer perspective.

The show features works of art by queer female artists Kimberly Austin, Cecilia Barriga, Mary Coble, Aleesa Cohene, Tejal Shah, Heidi Lunabba, and queer male artists Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Conny Karlsson, Al Masson, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Flemming Rolighed, Ingo Taubhorn. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with perspectives on queer art, the archive and activism by Jane Rowley & Louise Wolthers, Mathias Danbolt, Ann Cvetkovich, Joe Brainard and Heather Love.

Queer Art Seminars
Along side the Lost and Found Queerying Archive show the Bildmuseet and Umeå centrum för genusstudier (centre of gender studies) organize a couple of queer seminars, where you can meet some of the artist.

Seminar: Queer In Theory And Practice
Bildmuseet, Umeå Saturday January 30, 2010, 13:00 – 17:00
Lesbian artists Mary Coble, USA, Tejal Shah, India and trans artist Conny Karlsson, Sweeden will present their art works.
Mallin Rönnblom from Umeå University will give an introduction to the queer theory and curators Jane Rowley and Louise Wolthers will talk about the exhibition.

Seminar: Queerying The Archive
Bildmuseet, Umeå Saturday April 24, 2010, 13:00 – 17:00
Queer artists Cecilia Barriga, Aleesa Cohene and queer male artist Benny Nemerofsky Ramsey will present their works of art.
And there will be talks by Dr Gavin Butt, University of London and Ulrika Dahl, Sweden,  co-author of the book ‘Femmes of power – exploding queer femininities’.

Film still from Cecilia Barriga's Meeting of Two Queens   Film still from Cecilia Barriga's Meeting of Two Queens, 1991

Installation view of ‘Meeting of Two Queens’ by Cecilia Barriga. Photo by Feminine Moments