Angela Jimenez is a queer photo journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. In August 2009 she published her first book: Welcome Home: Building the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival by photographer Angela Jimenez
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Juliette Gorges Coppens, born 1969 in Paris, is a French artist working and living in Berlin. She works with different medias, sketches, collages, stained glasses, but her favorite is oil on canvas or on paper, the technique, which is used in her series “Portraits”.
The Spanish artists Cabello/Carceller (Helena Cabello and Ana Carceller) gave a talk about their art works at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center. The talk took place at the opening weekend March 23-25, 2007, of the Center at the Brooklyn Museum, USA.
Femina Potens is excited to presents OPEN EYES film screening at Femina Potens Gallery with some of the hottest, most evocotive and forward thinking movies the Bay Area has to offer.
On March 26 at 8pm Femina Potens invites you to a sneak preview screening of the QueerXShow: Too Much Pussy, Feminist Sluts.
“TOO MUCH PUSSY ! Feminist Sluts in The QueerXShow’ is sex-positive road-movie by Emilie Jouvet.
Angela Jimenez is a freelance photo journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. She has published first book with photographs. It is titled WELCOME HOME: Building the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival.
The ABC Treehouse, Amsterdam, Holland, is proud to invite you to the opening of 50/50 PAUSING FOR REFLEXION, a solo exhibition of artist Chantz Perkins on 9 April – 30 May 2010. Festive Opening: April 11, 2010, 4pm.
A Response to Minister Lulu Xingwana’s Comments about the Innovative Women Exhibition. By Gabeba Baderoon.
In the 1990’ies everybody did gender, but now gender as an art themes has had its 15 minutes of fame, and we are back to square one: art made by queer women artists is ignored by the art world. It is a big backslash that the art world isn’t open and curious any more.
Arts activists, the Guerrilla Girls are a group of anonymous women or “feminist masked avengers” fighting for gender and racial equality. They tell the American art world how male-centric it is and question why art by male artists is better than art made by women, black and hispanic people. In the video above you can see them in action giving a talk at the Brooklyn Museum.
Here is the story about how a bunch of anonymous females, who take the names of dead women artists as pseudonyms and decided become feminist activists and appear in public wearing gorilla masks.
‘Innovative Women exhibition’ is group show of black contemporary female artists from different parts of South Africa. Minister Xingwana says it features immoral artworks.
Femina Potens Art Gallery in San Francisco presents an animalistic group exhibition that showcases mystical positions of power, the primal sensuality of the beast, and the conception of a newborn carnal mythology.
Laura Lilja is a queer multimedia artist based in Finland. She earned her Master of Arts from University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland in 2004. On March 10, 2010 at 19:30 hrs Århus Kunstbygning, Århus, Denmark, will be screening Laura’s art videos ‘Res publica’.
Kate Borstein graduated Brown University, USA in 1969. She is a Jewish-American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist, who teaches at universities around the world. Kate is a transexual dyke. Here (in the video above) she talks about what Brown taught her and encourages us to continue the spirit of the 1960’ies
‘Roof’ (8 min.) is an art video by Queer French Filmmaker Emilie Jouvet, and she tells that the film is a “Threesome on school roof : Kat, me, and you, bandes de petits pervers!”
American photographer Cass Bird’s has given an artist talk, which was documented on video (15 min). Here she discusses her photography, which began as an outlet, a replacement for verbal communication.
Avantgarde lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer’s new book, a monography about her life and films has just come out. The title is ‘HAMMER!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life’.
Now I have got my copy of American photographer Zoe Leonard’s new monograph: ‘Zoe Leonard Photographs’. The book was published in 2008, when she had her first mid-career retrospective show at Fotomuseum Winterthur in Austria.
Emilie Jouvet – Queer photographer and filmmaker, she works also as a freelance photographer for magazines. Here is a video with an interview with Emilie.
For the last couple of weeks I have been sharing some videos about queer photographers from the USA, which I have found on YouTube, with you. However, no presentation of the diversity of American lesbian/queer photography would be ‘perfect’ without a video about the works of the great woman, who founded lesbian photography in America: Tee Corinne.