Pride Photo Award 2012

Pride Photo Award 2012 – Call for Entries The international contest has started. There is no entry fee, but lots of rules…. I think that these two are some of the most basic ones: – Single images in all categories must have been taken in the period starting on 1…

London: Mertle Merman loose at the Hayward Gallery

Press release by Caroline Smith Cross posted at www.carolinesmithonline.com Mertle Merman’s BUTOH CLEANSE ‘N’ QUEER UP Mertle – performance artist Caroline Smith’s alter ego – joins the Avant Gardeners (http://www.avantgardening.org) at the Hayward Gallery, London SE1, UK Sunday 17th June at 3pm for a Butoh-inspired ritual cleanse and queer up…

Tejal Shah at dOKUMENTA 13

Photo: screendump of Tejal Shah’s website 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…

Zanele Muholi at dOCUMENTA 13

Faces & Phases by visual activist Zanele Muholi, South Africa at the contemporary art festival dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany. Zanele presents a new series of her astonishing portraits – a wall of 60 large-scale lesbian and transgender subjects from several African countries. These works are part of the ongoing ‘Faces…

Drawing on Experience by Caroline Smith

Caroline Smith, Drawing on Experience, Tate Modern – 27 June 2009 from Oriana Fox on Vimeo. Camerawork: Richard Canham & Francesca Ungaro. Drawing on Experience by Caroline Smith Caroline Smith’s homage to Bobby Baker’s ‘Drawing on a Mother’s Experience’ (1988) involved the divulging of other people’s eating secrets, spilling and…

8th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival

The 8th Queer Women of Color Film Festival Saturday, June 8, 9, 10, 2012 Free Venue: Novellus Theatre at YBCA 700 Howard at Third St, San Francisco QWOCMAP: “We want to let you know more about our Festival Focus, “I Do AND I Don’t: LGBTQ People of Color and Same-Sex…

The Art of Lenore Chinn

Cultural Confluences: The Art of Lenore Chinn celebrates the public unveiling of The Oracle Room, a painting for which Chinn has received a 2011 San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission, in Visual Arts.

Zurich: Queer Feminist D.I.Y. Film Festival

Video: “Crappy avantgarde performance (for you)”, by Henriette Hellstern-Kjøller, Denmark Danish visual artist and queer woman Henriette Hellstern-Kjøller presents five short art videos, “Crappy avantgarde performance (for you)”, “One minute movements”, “Right kind of family”, “Touch my tra la la” & “Mrs. Uterus & me”, at Traumschicht Kollektiv queere Filmtage, a…

San Francisco: Cultural Confluences: The Art of Lenore Chinn

Cultural Confluences: The Art of Lenore Chinn June 6 -24, 2011 Opening Reception, June 8, 2011 at 6pm The Luggage Store Gallery San Francisco Cultural Confluences: The Art of Lenore Chinn celebrates the public unveiling of The Oracle Room, a painting for which the artist received a San Francisco Arts…

INTERSECTIONS OF LGBTQ PERFORMANCE ART & SEXUAL POLITICS IN EROTIC FILM

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – JUNE 6, 2012 – Presented by Femina Potens Art Gallery at Off Center as part of the National Queer Arts Festival Join our panel of feminists, queer artists, activists, counter-culture renegades and performance artists for a night of interactive performance art, film screenings, and artist panel…

Time Sensitive

TIME SENSITIVE is the landmark publication of the Feminist Art Gallery (FAG)

The 3rd Annual Next Magazine Photo Contest

New York: Next Magazin Photo Contest 2012 Press Release from Leslie-Lohman Museum The 3rd Annual Next Magazine Photo Contest Enter your images of Gay Life in 2012 for a chance to be featured in the pages of Next Magazine Next Magazine, New York’s Gay Guide, is excited to announce their…

THE LACTATION STATION BREAST MILK BAR

The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar, by Jess Dobkin. Photo credit: David Hawe Quench your curiosity at the Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar! Audiences are invited to ‘quench their curiosity’ by tasting samples of pasteurized human breast milk at The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar, an interactive performance art piece…