Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective
September 2 to 26, 2021
Opening Reception: Friday, September 10th, 6 – 9 pm at Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) in Toronto, Canada.
The exhibition includes an extensive event programme.
Author: Havmoeller
The Rebel Dykes Art & Archive Show at Space Station Sixty-Five, Building One, 373 Kennington Road, London
June 25th – September 17th 2021. Press release and photos courtesy of curator and activist Atalanta Kernick
Tonight Leslie Lohman Museum of Art presents poet and visual artist Pamela Sneed at the opening of ‘OMNISCIENT: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture’ which runs through January 2, 2022. And it is last chance to see Sneed’s solo exhibition B-LEAFS which is currently on view at the Motherbox in New York.
Cummer Museum presented ZANELE MUHOLI: SOMNYAMA NGONYAMA, HAIL THE DARK LIONESS April 15, 2021 – June 20, 2021. Zanele Muholi discusses her art projects which are her visual activism.
Video (6:55): Zanele Muholi – ‘In My World, Every Human is Beautiful’. Zanele talk about her creative practice and her LGBTQ activism using images to bring about change in a queerphobic world by presenting people who are not represented and excluded from the art canon.
Video (7:45): Zanele Muholi at the Tate Modern November 5, 2020 – May 31, 2021, an exhibition with over 260 photographs showing Zanele’s visual activism.
Video (38:17): presentation about photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) by Karen Albert, Hofstra University, April 2021.
Video (7:06): Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) spent 24 years (1934-58) teaching photography at The New School where she founded the university’s first photography program.
Video (4:52): Dr. Juliana Kreinik, Dr. Steven Zucker, and Dr. Beth Harris discuss a collage by Dada artist Hannah Höch.
Video (5:48): “I want to surround myself by strong and able women” is a short film with an interview with queer filmmaker Vanessa Haroutunian published by Womanity Project, (2020).
Video (59:56): queer feminist artist Patricia Cronin in conversation with Tampa Museum of Art’s curators Dr. Seth Pevnick and Richard E. Perry in May 2021 after the museum’s acquisition of Aphrodite Reimagined by Patricia Cronin.
Video (57:16): Hilde Atalanta talks about her creative practice as a queer illustrator. Hilde is based in Amsterdam, Holland. Hilde is the creator of The Vulva Gallery art project. Video by Ella TV, June 2021.
Video (31:01): Shannon Anderson, a queer feminist artist based in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, talks about her creative practice in her studio space. Video published by Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, June 2021.
Kavel Rafferty: Queer Flowers at White Conduit Project Gallery, London, July 20-25, 2021.
Video (59:51): on September 16, 2020, Artist Liz Collins and SNMA Executive Director Hunter O’Hanian held a conversation about her recent book “Energy Field” (2020) and exhibition project at the Tang Museum imagining what a (queer) museum social space can be.
Video (1:07:05): a lecture by queer feminist artist Rachel Ara. She talks about her creative practise and and her experience with being de-platformed in 2019. Video by Cambridge Radical Feminist Network, 2021. The no platforming of works by older women artists, being labeled “turfs” is misogyny, the art world that excluding critical women artists.
Video (53.14): Charcoal Book Club interviews Catherine Opie about her latest book, ‘Catherine Opie’, (Phaidon, 2021). This podcast ia an audio-only podcast.
Video (35:36): queer feminist photographer Catherine Opie talks about her creative practise as she is taking you on a tour in her studio. Catherine mentions her new monographs, Catherine Opie (Phaidon, 2021) published in May 2021.
2020: the celebration of the re-designation of the Alice Austen House (museum) as a national site of LGBTQ history putting the lesbian photographer, Alice Austen, and all of us on the map. Video (10:27): Video of the openning speech by the Alice Austen House.
Video (1:44): Nicole Eisenman, Fountain, 2017 by Hauser & Wirth.