Excerpt from Queer Arts Festival’s newsletter July 5, 2014 Queer Arts Festival 2014: JUL 23 – AUG 9 ReGenerations: Dare to be challenged. Risk being Changed. The Queer Arts Festival [in Vancouver, Canada] is fast approaching, and we’ve been busy putting together an extraordinary selection of events that everyone will…
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Harmony Hammond Becoming and Unbecoming Monocrome, August 2 – September 28, 2014, at RedLine. Curated by Tirza True Latimer. Opening: August 2, 2014, 7-9 pm Panel discussion: September 11, 2014 4-6 pm Dear Friends, If perchance you will be in Denver, please stop by RedLine to see this exhibition of…
Video (1:14:15): Artist talk by Carrie Moyer, January 28, 2014 In the above lecture American painter Carrie Moyer talks about her abstract paintings only and not about her activism. About Carrie Moyer “Carrie Moyer, painter, writer and activist, melds hard graphic shapes with biomorphic forms in expertly handled acrylic, or…
Video (6:30): Tang Museum – Carrie Moyer in her New York City Studio (2013), Carrie Moyer talks about pivotal events in her life that brought her to painting, and the influence history has had in her work.
Visual activist Zanele Muholi gave a talk at The O.P.E.N in Singapore Zanele Muholi (with a mic) at the opening in Singapore O.P.E.N. / Singapore International Festival of Arts 2014 (June 26 – July 12): Zanele Muholi attended the opening on June 26 and gave the talk: Collaboration, Art, Social…
Invitation to the inaugural exhibition at Temporal Domain in Santa Fe opening on July 18, 2014
Press release via California LGBT Arts Alliance’s newsletter The Last Bastion: A Conversation on Feminist and Queer Museum Politics – Featuring: Dr. Amelia Jones and Dr. Jonathan D. Katz two of the world’s leading Queer art historians. Monday, June 30 6:30 – 9:30 PM West Hollywood Council Chambers 627 N….
FLUID Exhibition June 5th-July 2nd, 2014 Project Gallery, Toronto Tuesday-Friday 2pm-8pm, Saturday-Sunday noon-6pm FLUID showcases the work of bi* identified photographers in celebration of WorldPride 2014. The Artists Allicette Torres, Amanda Robertson-Herbert, Angela Yukiko Shintani, Catherine Jones, Jaene Castrillon, Jenni, Jim Riley, Joyce, Kati Holland, Kristy Boyce, Melissa Wilkinson, Michael…
Press photo by GIBSON KOCHANEK STUDIO Gibson Kochanek Studio is an exciting new collaboration between photographer Marta Kochanek and photo researcher Barbara Gibson. Marta and Barbara have worked together on projects in the past gaining reputations as skilled, trustworthy and hard working professionals. As they developed a great working relationships…
Press release via facebook Queer, Feminist and Gender poitical art initiatives in the Nordic & baltic Countries: seminar & debate Date: 20-06-2014 Time: 17:00 – 19:00 Location: Warehouse9 – live art venue Address: Halmtorvet 11C Copenhagen, Denmark 1711 Denmark Organized by: Warehouse 9. This event is a part of the…
BECOMING AN IMAGE Heather Cassils from Pacitti Company on Vimeo. Featuring Manuel Vason performing as photographer. National Theatre Studios, London. About Heather Cassils Heather Casssils is a queer visual artist and personal trainer, originally from Montreal, Canada and now based in California. She thinks of her physical body as a…
Video published by Gender Forum. On May 21, 2014 Jack Halberstam delivered a public lecture at Karaköy Minerva Palas, Istanbul. The event was organized by Sabanci University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Gender Studies Club (Cins Kulüp), and Gender and Women Studies Forum. The title of Jack Halberstam’s lecture…
Rainbow Party meets the artist _2012 from Susa Cortez on Vimeo. Susana Cortez Performance piece: The body is social; the body is political by itself. Who we are, where we come from, how we see ourselves, how society and others perceive us is all about body politics. It is all…
June 14, 2014 Bodies Curators’ Tour 11am at SOMArts, San Francisco Each year as part of its National Queer Arts Festival, the Queer Cultural Center presents an international exhibition of cutting edge queer art. This year’s exhibition is titled Body, body, bodies. Curators and exhibiting artists will give a guided…
GenderBlender, June 6 – Augustus 17, 2014 at MU Emmasingel 20 5611 AZ Eindhoven, Holland “Femininity, masculinity, and everything in between. With GenderBlender MU and guest curators/artists Hanneke Wetzer and Leonie Baauw are focusing on the sliding scale between 100% XX and 100 % XY chromosomes, between male and female.”…
Press release by Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, Canada Pride in Art is delighted to announce that Artistic Director SD (Shaira) Holman has been honoured with the YWCA Women of Distinction Award. Recognized nationally as one of Canada’s most prestigious awards, the Women of Distinction Awards honours women whose outstanding achievements…
Becoming An Image Performance Still No. 1, (ONE National Archives, Transactivations, Los Angeles), 2012, C-print face mounted to Plexiglas, 45 x 30 in. Photo: Heather Cassils with Eric Charles. Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Leslie-Lohman Museum presents an exhibition of queer feminist artists exploring the body…
Laura Aguilar, Grounded #114, 2006. 20 x 16 in. Courtesy of the artist and UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. Leslie-Lohman Museum presents an exhibition of queer feminist artists exploring the body as site of resistance, envisioning a positive queer future. The exhibition features work from Laura Aguilar, Cathy Cade, Heather…
Press Release by Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art and Fresh Fruit Festival Leslie-Lohman Museum presents an exhibition of queer feminist artists exploring the body as site of resistance, envisioning a positive queer future. After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality Curated by Alexis Heller Exhibition…