Vancouver – QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL 2014: ReGenerations

Press release QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL 2014: ReGenerations An annual three-week artist-run transdisciplinary arts festival, July 23 – August 9, Roundhouse Exhibition Hall and Performance Centre in Vancouver, Canada. The 2014 Theme: ReGenerations Queer Arts Festival (QAF) is delighted to unveil our 2014 theme, ReGenerations. A defiant reframing of the Nazi…

Berlin: re.act.feminism Book Launch

Press release by re.act.feminism Re.act.feminism #2 – A performing archive Editors: Bettina Knaup, Beatrice Ellen Stammer Publisher: Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst Content: 318 pages ISBN: 978-3-86984-460-2 Year: 2014 Published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg and Live Art Development Agency London   Berlin: re.act.feminism Book Launch Finally – after…

Schwules Museum* Berlin – Zanele Muholi Photograph

Press release Zanele Muholi. Photography at Schwules Museum* in Berlin 22 March to 9 June 2014 Curators: Birgit Bosold & Wolfgang Theis The Schwules Museum* in collaboration with Amnesty International present an extensive exhibition of South African artist Zanele Muholi’s photographic works. You and your friends are cordially invited to:…

Chicano Park iPhoneography by Tina Rice

Artist statement and photos by Tina Rice / COMBO APPS: Mobile Extreme Editing   Photo from the Chicano Park iPhoneography series by Tina Rice Artist Statement by Tina Rice Tina Rice: I’m a photography/mobile based artists. Everything I do now is from my iPhone and iPad. All my traditional photographic…

The Lesbian Paintbrush

Essay by writer and visual artist Jane Eaton Hamilton, Canada I’ve been studying art in Paris museums further to my certificate work in painting from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I have investigated the collections at the Musée d’Orsay, Musée Marmottan Monet, Musée de Montmartre, Centre Pompidou and…

Guerrilla Girls: Estrogene Bombing – in London 2013

Video published by Southbank Centre, the UK’s largest arts centre Southbank Centre: Guerrilla Girls: Estrogen Bombing at Yoko Ono’s Meltdown, 2013. – Watch the entire session from the Purcell Room in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. The Guerrilla Girls use facts, humour and fake fur to expose discrimination and corruption in…

My Elvis + by Deborah Kass

Artist talk by Deborah Kass, 2013 My Elvis +, an exhibition of paintings by Deborah Kass at Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York. The exhibition features works from The Warhole Project, which she started working on back in 1992. My Elvis + follows Kass’s mid-career retrospective, Deborah Kass: Before and Happily…

Guerrilla Girls: Art and Feminism / Guerrilla Girls: Arte y Feminismo

Guerrilla Girls: Art and Feminism, 2013 GUERRILLA GIRLS 1985-2013 AT ALHÓNDIGA BILBAO, SPAIN The feminist arts activist group Guerrilla Girls presented their 25 anniversary exhibition in Bilbao, Spain, in 2013. The above video is about their exhibition. Two members of the group discusses their work to make the art world…

The Last Opening at Strange Loop Gallery, New York

Press release by Strange Loop Gallery Strange Loop Gallery Proudly presents: KATRINA DEL MAR: ‘SUMMER SANG IN ME’ March 7-28, 2014 opening hours Thursday – Sunday 12-7pm PS: This is also the last opening at our gallery: we will be closing our doors April 1st, so don’t miss it! SPECIAL…

Barbara Hammer as Claude Cahun

Barbara Hammer as Claude Cahun in A Gay Bar from barbara hammer on Vimeo. Barbara Hammer performed Claude Cahun, May 6 – 7, 2011 at The Kitchen, NYC, in Emily Roysdon’s A Gay Bar Called Everywhere (With Costumes and No Practice). Related Link Artist Statement by avant-garde filmmaker and lesbian…

Claude Cahun at Jeu de Paume 2011

Claude Cahun – video by Jeu de Paume, France, 2011 The exhibition of Claude Cahun’s photographs at Jeu de Paume in Paris, France in 2011, and later exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 featured a wide selection of the artist’s works, some of which have seldom been…

Kisser by iO Tillett Wright

iO Tillett Wright – Kisser from Brian Paul Lamotte on Vimeo. The images for “Kisser” – “The Friday Night Throwdowns were a series of illegal boxing matches that took place in Manhattan in the winter of 2010-2011. They were nicknamed the ‘male model boxing’ ring because numerous high profile male…

A Quilt Talk by Lesbian Activists Mina Kay Meyer and Sharon Raphael

Video (17:34 min): A quilt talk by Mina Kay Meyer and Sharon Raphael from the ALMS conference that the Mazer Lesbian Archives hosted in 2011. Mina Meyer and Sharon Raphael, who are based in San Francisco, talk about being a lesbian activist, their work for the movement through 40 years(!)…

Suzie Pindar – Endless Possibilities

Suzie Pindar – Dream, 21cm x 29.7cm, black edged wood frame 32.5cm x 42.5cm Endless Possibilities – a group mixed media exhibition Camden Image Gallery 174 Royal College Street, Camden, London March 8 – 20 2014 UK artist and queer woman Suzie Pindar takes part in the exhibition titles Endless…

California LGBT Arts Alliance

California LGBT Arts Alliance is an alliance of California Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Artists and Arts Organizations. They include all artists, arts organizations and individuals who support their mission as part of their alliance. Their mission is “to promote artistic and financial partnerships that strengthen and deepen the cooperative…

Through Her Eyes – The Flashes of Lesbian-Feminist Production

The exhibition ‘Through Her Eyes – The Flashes of Lesbian-Feminist Production‘ is a part of 15. International Feminist & Queer Festival Red Dawns, which will take place from 6th untill 8th March 2014 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Opening: Wednesday, March 6 at 9 pm in the Alkatraz Gallery. Participating artists: Maša…

Hannah Höch at Whitechapel Gallery, London

Eisler Curator and Head of Curatorial Studies, Daniel F. Herrmann, introduces Hannah Höch at the Whitechapel Gallery. The Hannah Höch exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery runs through March 23 2014. The exhibition bringing together over 100 works from major international collections, the exhibition examines Höch’s extraordinary career from the 1910s to…

Reel Warrior: Pratibha Parmar

Excerpt from Queer Cultural Center Newsletter March – 2014 Reel Warrior: Pratibha Parmar in Conversation with Allan deSouza March 13, 7:00pm Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th St, San Francisco, USA FREE and open to the public Pratibha Parmar is a international filmmaker known for bringing complex subjects into mainstream media…

dearSAPPHO

British Film Institute: London LGBT Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION. dearSAPPHO DANCER/CHOREOGRAPHER: aniacatherine.com CINEMATOGRAPHERS: mishkakornai.com and Angela Dalberiste WRITER/DIRECTOR: emmelinekim.com MUSIC “Open Wide” jocelyn & lisa X Boyfriend Academy Remix Note From Emmeline Kim “I first met Ania during college. She was studying feminism and had already been dancing for 15…