The Lesben Früelings Treffen or just ‘LFT’ is the annual German lesbian festival of politics and culture. Apart from the workshops, talks and events (of which there are 120!), the German lesbians and their foreign friends will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the LFT arts exhibition.
The Guerrila Girls have turned 25 and they are still going strong and they are busier than ever now that the art world, which they have spent their whole life attacking suddenly embraces them.
Queer artist Heidi Lunababba writes: Welcome to the opening! – Tervetuloa avajaisiin!
May 6th5pm to 8pm, outside of Ateneum in the park facing Mikonkatu, Helsinki city centre in Finland. The Camera Obscura is outside of the museum, so you dont need to have the official invitation card to come!
Alison Bechdel’s Big Kiss. Video part 1: Cartoonist Alison Bechdel interviewed by Michelle Paradise for Velvetpark.
Fiendish Man Woman
Dominique Hindmarsh and Susannah Thorne are two artists, who work collaboratively under the title of Mills and Morte, which evokes their individual interests in issues of love and death. They have chosen to focus this installation Something about ‘Harry: Secrets and Sins’ on the life of Eugenia Fallini. As Harry Crawford, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife Annie Birkett in 1920 three years after her burnt body had been discovered in Lane Cove.
The Michael Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town will be putting up an exhibition by photographer, Zanele Muholi, from April 22 to May 29 2010. Queer photographer and activist Zanele Muholi explores the implications of being black and queer through a range of different series and strategies.
Gestures of Resistance artist-in-residence. Anthea Black talks about her project at Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, USA. Black was in residence a part of the duration of the show February 19 – March 10, 2010 where she produced a poster in collaboration with a printmaking class at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Slideshow about queer artist Heidi Lunabba’s ‘Studio Vilgefortis’
Change your looks and gender identity for a day. Queer artist Heidi Lunabba from Finland make beards on beardless people in her ‘Studio Vilgefortis’.
GenderArtNet: Weblaunch, presentations and discussion
Friday, April 16, 2010, 4-8 p.m.
At project space uqbar, Schwedenstrasse 16 | D – 13357 Berlin, Germany.
Muholi/ B(L)ACK – April 8 – 16, 2010, Exhibition by Zanele Muholi, South Africa, Opening Night: April 14, 5-7 pm.
Faculty Gallery, Faculty Art & Design, Art & Design Building (G), Monash University, 900 Dandenong Rd, Caulfield, Melbourne, Australia
Queer artist Allyson Mitchell interviewed by Irma Villafuerte, part I, May 12, 2009. Allyson Mitchell, is a maximalist artist working predominantly in sculpture, installation and film. Mitchell has been melding feminism and pop culture to play with contemporary ideas about sexuality, autobiography, and the body, largely through the use of reclaimed textile and abandoned craf.
50 / 50 Pausing for Reflection
Sculptures of Chantz Perkins, 10 April – 30 May, 2010
Opening: Sunday, April 11, 2010, 4 – 6 pm
ABC Treehouse, Voetboegstraat 11, 1012 XK Amsterdam, Holland
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LUMINOSA INANNA: VIDEO AND ART by LILIANA KLEINER, Canada
MUSIC by GABRIELA FLORES, Mexico
Euro-Electronica-Pop-Divas INA UNT INA pay homage to Lynda Barry in the strange land of Granny Squares and Shag Carpet. The video is set in an art installation by queer Canadian artist Allyson Mitchell. The installation is titled ‘Hungry Purse’.
Solo exhibition by photographer Anna-Stina Treumund. March 26 – April 18, 2010. Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Vabaduse Square 6, Tallinn, Estonia. The opening of ‘How To Recognize a Lesbian?’ is on March 24, 2010.
Sheila Autonomista is a massive indie, non-profit, queer women’s art and music festival held across 6 days in 3 venues in Marrickville, Australia in the Easter holidays. The art exhibitions, Scabaret, Film Night, and Scooter are open to everyone.
Laura Lilja talks about her Freak-installations: “The queer project ‘Freak’ is one of my most successful installations. The starting point of this series of installations is my own experiences in the Finnish school system.
Ich Tier! (Du Mensch) – Du Tier! (Ich Mensch) is a thematic group exhibition spanning, between two art spaces lying in proximity of each other – Perla-Mode and Dienstgebäude in Zurich, Austria, – a bridge between two worlds: the animal and the human world. “The participating artists demonstrate a special…
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