Press release QWOCMAP invites queer women of color, gender nonconforming and transgender people of color to submit films to our 9th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival, June 14-16, 2013 in San Francisco. The Queer Women of Color Film Festival seeks films of any genre, any subject and any…
Music video: No V.I.P. by Lucy Love, 2008. Animation: Sif Westerberg. About Sif Westerberg Sif Westerberg is a Copenhagen based queer artist studying at The Royal Danish Art Academy (in Denmark). She works mainly with sculptures, story telling, claymation, stop motion and animation. Related Link Sif Itona Westerberg Makes Queer…
Press release TERAPHIM: An Installation by Jewlia Eisenberg with Charming Hostess Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA December 6-20 Jewlia Eisenberg’s installation, TERAPHIM, has transformed the third floor of Meridian Gallery into a place of multimedia installation, ritual, and music performance. Join us at Teraphim in a space rich with new…
Music video by K8 Hardy for Lesbians on Ecstasym, 2007 Sisters in the Struggle, a music video by K8 Hardy for Montreal-based band, Lesbians on Ecstasy. Sisters in the Struggle is the anthem for their album, We Know You Know. About K8 Hardy “K8 Hardy (USA, b. 1977) is a…
Interview with Tania Bruguera, Interdisciplinary Artist, Cuba/USA at All That is Banned is Desired – A World Conference on Artistic Freedom of Expression in Oslo, Norway, 25 October 2012. Related Link Homosexuality and Art, a video with speakers Zanele Muholi and Pang Khee Teik at the All That is Banned…
Elles: Pompidou is a landmark exhibition of more than 130 works of art made by 75 women artists from 1907 to 2007. Organized by the Centre Pompidou in Paris three years ago. This feminist exhibition includes works by several queer women artists. It is now at the Seattle Art Museum:…
Video: MORAL PANICS: SEXUALITY AND ART Queer artist Zanele Muholi, South Africa and gay male Pang Khee Teik, Arts Consultant and Human Rights Activist, Malaysia, spoke about sexuality and art at the “All That is Banned is Desired” conference, Oslo, 25 October 2012. Moderator: Robert Sember, Artist and Researcher (South Africa/USA).
Yarra Arts Presents Energy from Stillness Energy from Stillness harnesses the strength and imagination from 2 and 3 dimensional artworks to create an art exhibition that is truly one of beauty. Artists: Matto Lucas, Emma Buckland, Alexander Edwards, Tama Favell, Hillary Green, Jacqueline Gwynne, Savina Hopkins, Cath Johnston, Sol Mann,…
Rework – Werewolf (Official Music Video) Rework – Werewolf (Official Music Video). Music by Rework. Video by Ji Stragneway American videomaker Ji Strangeway has cut some of her queer film images for the Berlin electronic band REWORK’s new music video.
Issue 6 of the lesbian e-zine LAVENDER REVIEW focuses on the Muse. The issue contains poetry and queer feminist art works in which the artists are in contact with the muses, goddesses of the inspiration. Poetry Joy Ladin, Jessica Mason McFadden, Risa Denenberg, Joan Annsfire, Rose Kelleher, Ann Tweedy, Shawndra…
Artist talk by Emily Roysdon, published by BMW Tate Live in May 2012 Queer feminist artist Emily Roysdon (USA) was selected as one of the artists to make a performance for the first series of performances at BMW Tate Live’s new performance room. She created a queer feminist performance together…
Harmony Hammond (American, b. 1944). Red Bed, 2011. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 80 1/2 x 50 1/2 in. (204.47 x 128.27 cm). Art©HarmonyHammond/Licensed by VAGA, NYC WHAT’S A NICE FEMINIST LIKE YOU DOING IN THE MODERNIST PAINTING FIELD? Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 2 p.m. Iris and B….
Francesca Alaimo
Video interview with painter Carrie Moyer (USA). 2011 Carrie Moyer presented her exhibition Canonical, September – October 2011, at CANADA, 55 Chrystie Street, New York. In the above interview at CANADA, New York Carrie Moyer says: “I think that people, who make paintings make messages for other painters in their…
Dog Betty tries to make new friends in the park, video by Birgitta Hosea, 2007 The Dog Betty movies were created by Birgitta Hosea (UK) as an experiment in being a human cartoon while artist-in-residence in the Lethaby Gallery, summer 2007. Birgitta has published an artist statement about the Dog…
A video published by Otis College 2011. A lecture by American artist Judie Bamber (2011), where she talks about her pratice and a series of watercolors on paper. Judie Bamber graduated from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia in 1983 and she is one of the lesbian artists presented…
The 25th Midsumma Festival program is being launched this week. The festival will run from 13 Jan to 3 Feb, 2013. The full 48 page printed program guide will be on the streets from Fri 23 November. The complete program is now available on the Midsumma website. I send a…
Artist talk by queer performance artist Mary Coble (USA)
re.act.feminism – a performing archive is a continually expanding, temporary and living performance archive travelling through six European countries from 2011 to 2013.
Video interview published 18/10/2012 by xtraonline. Xtra speaks to Dot Tuer, curator of Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting at The Art Gallery of Ontario about Frida Kahlo’s gender bending ways and her status in the queer community. The exhibit runs until Jan 20, 2013.