Les Rencontres d’Arles: Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi, South Africa Queer photographer Zanele Muholi is nominated for the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award and she exhibiting at the festival in Arles, France, from July 2 to September 23, 2012. Zanele Muholi’s exhibition at Arles is a visual exploration of ‘making / mapping / preserving radical black lesbian and queer…

Denmark: Re.Act.Feminism #2

To Dance a Prison (13:00 min with sound) by Line Skywalker Karlström, 2010. Camera and photo: Frederike Hansen re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive is a continually expanding, temporary and living performance archive travelling through six European countries from 2011 to 2013. It presents feminist, gendercritical and queer performance art by over…

Line Skywalker Karlström Performance: Queens Deers

Line Skywalker Karlström, Performance, 2004 Published at Youtube by MrLineskywalkerful, 11/09/2009 Feminist performance artist and queer woman Line Skywalker Karlström (Sweden/Denmark) is blurring the boundaries between humans and animals in this performance from 2004. Line descibes her performance, as one in which she “appears as a somewhat deranged elk, running around…

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…

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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…