THE RESISTANCE GALLERY is proud to present AT AUCTION a major retrospective of the work of Del LaGrace Volcano. Originally shown in November 2009 as part of the SHOUT Festival in Birmingham, England, these images – large format, on board & ready to hang – will be sold at THE…
Promotional video – Homotopia Festival presents the exhibtion Pin Ups Pin Ups consists of a selection of new and existing portraits from Sadie Lee and Matthew Stradling exploring the idea of queer icons and inspired by the eponymous David Bowie album. In this video curator James Lawler and the out…
Developing Personal Imagery Workshop @ Banff Centre from barbara hammer on Vimeo. This short video from a master class by queer filmmaker Barbara Hammer (USA) at The Banff Centre, Canada, shows how Barbara guides a group of artists to develop their personal imagery through visualization using a relaxation techniques, which…
Commitment Issues – Curated by Jess Dobkin takes place November 16 + 17, 2011 in Toronto, Canada. The event presents an selection of works by international performance artists and in addition to the evening of performance art, the artists and curator speak about the work and the event in a…
A Homotopia.tv presents a video from the opening of Pin Ups – A queer art exhibition by Sadie Lee & Mathew Stradling at The Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Feminists in Space – International feminist qerformance art festival, November 9-13, 2011 at Warehouse 9, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curatorial Statement We are pleased to announce Feminists in Space – the first feminist performance festival ever to be held in Copenhagen. Feminists in Space was initially the title for a feminist blog…
HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, the first major museum exhibition in USA to explore how gender and sexual identity have shaped the creation of American portraiture, was originally organized by the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and has been reorganized by the Brooklyn Museum and the Tacoma Art…
i don’t need your help from Manmeet Devgun on Vimeo November 18 – 25, 2011. The Nigah QueerFest ’11 is celebrating sexualities for the fifth time this year in New Delhi. The Solo Show Project presents: I Don’t Need Your Help By Manmeet Devgun, India Abadi Art Space F213/A First…
GFEST 2011 – “2 Minutes of Creativity” chat with artist Bridget Orlando. Bridget Orland is talking with Artistic director of GFEST Niranjan Kamatkar Bridget Orlando is working on a body of work about the ways people present themselves and our assumptions as well. One of her paintings was selected for…
SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco presents Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze, November 4–30, 2011 Opening Reception with Artwork Dedication & Performance Friday, Nov 4 2011, 6–9 pm. Free Admission. Women Artists Look at Men and Masculinity – Art Exhibition Re-envisions Gender, Society and The Politics of Exposure San Francisco,…
Trailer: Lover Other: The Story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore_barbarahammer.com from Barbara Hammer on Vimeo 1920’s Surrealist artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore come to life in this hybrid documentary. Lesbians and step-sisters, the gender-bending artists lived and worked together all their lives. Heroic resisters to the Nazis occupying…
French lesbian photographer Claude Cahun’s surrealist works are growing more and more popular. Go see the latest retrospective of her works in Barcelona: Claude Cahun 28 October 2011 to 2 February 2012 at Centre de Imatge, Barcelona, Spain “After many years of relative obscurity, the photographs of Claude Cahun (born…
C19H28O2 (Agnès) an installation made by queer photographer Dorothée Smith for her exhibition at Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains,Tourcoing, France, 2011.
Isilumo siyaluma is a Zulu expression that can be loosely translated as “period pains/ periods pain”. Additionally, there is an added meaning in the translation that there is something secretive in and about this blood/“period in time.”
At one level, my project deals with my own menstrual blood, with that secretive, feminine time of the month that has been reduced within Western patriarchal culture as dirty.
Isilumo siyaluma, zulu expression which means period pains, as we continue to live and survive in troubled times as black lesbians in South Africa and within the continent. Visual artist Zanele Muholi explains her queer art project “Isilumo siyaluma” to Toxic Lesbian, Madrid, Spain. Related Links Zanele Muholi’s online portfolio…
The show Pin Ups is a selection of new and existing portraits by both artists exploring the idea of queer icons and inspired by the eponymous David Bowie album.
Lenore Chinn on Bernice Bing from Rehistoricizing.org on Vimeo. Bernice Bing (1936-1998) a Chinese American Painter and Queer Artist Bernice Bing was a third-generation American Chinese born in Chinatown, San Francisco in 1936. In 1958, Bernice attended California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, but she soon transferred to…
Video trailer about Man As Object: Reversing the Gaze Art Exhibition by SOMarts, San Francisco, USA Man As Object: Reversing the Gaze Art Exhibition November 4-30, 2011 Events include: peepshow drawing circle, performance, film screening, and featured artist panel Venue: SOMarts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan st. (Between 8th & 9th…
Lesbian Art Herstory: Claude Cahun
Art Herstory: German bisexual artist Hannah Höch (1889-1978) is best known for her photomontages, though she also made drawings and paintings. Between 1912 and 1920, she studied art at the Kunstgewerbeschule Charlottenburg (Charlottenburg School of Applied Arts) and the Unterrichtsanstalt des königlichen Kunstgewerbemuseums (School of the Royal Museum of Applied…