A Conversation with Maggi Hambling – Resurrection Commission for St Dunstan’s Church (2011) from Electric Egg on Vimeo. “A Conversation with Maggi Hambling” (2011) is an personal exploration by the artist of her work, themes within and influences behind it, whilst contextualising her proposed piece for St Dunstan’s Church. The film…
Dear Reader I hope that you have had a nice Summer Solistice last week. Along with the summer come a lot of pride events, some queer exhibtions, art festivals and holidays for most of you. I’ll be in Berlin July 24 – 30 for the 2nd International Queer Tango Festival….
Newsletter by Lenore Chinn Press photo – Painting by Lenore Chinn Last week to see Cultural Confluences: The Art of Lenore Chinn at The Luggage Store Gallery! Gallery hours: Wednesday – Saturday, noon to 5pm 1007 Market Street near 6th Street, 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94103, USA 415.255.5971 www.luggagestoregallery.org…
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…
Art is So Gay opens on June 26, 2012 at the Forum Box gallery in Helsinki, Finland. This mixed group exhibition will run through July 22, 2012. Emmi Kattelus writes: “The ‘Art is So Gay’ exhibition will present an uniquely wide selection of contemporary art as a part of Helsinki…
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 – 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The 8th Queer Women of Color Film Festival Saturday, June 8, 9, 10, 2012 Free Venue: Novellus Theatre at YBCA 700 Howard at Third St, San Francisco QWOCMAP: “We want to let you know more about our Festival Focus, “I Do AND I Don’t: LGBTQ People of Color and Same-Sex…
Leslie/Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art has launched a new website www.leslielohman.org and I am happy that they have added the link of Feminine Moments (www.femininemoments.dk) to their page with research resources.
Watch this short walk through an exhibition with nude photographs by bisexual photographer Germaine Krull on Youtube.
Glasgow Street Kids by British painter Joan Eardley (1921 – 1963) Related Link Read about Joan Eardley at Wikipedia
Cultural Confluences: The Art of Lenore Chinn celebrates the public unveiling of The Oracle Room, a painting for which Chinn has received a 2011 San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission, in Visual Arts.
Curator Jonathan D. Katz has made a remix of queer artists – a reunion of QCC Visual Artists at SOMArts Main Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Video: “Crappy avantgarde performance (for you)”, by Henriette Hellstern-Kjøller, Denmark Danish visual artist and queer woman Henriette Hellstern-Kjøller presents five short art videos, “Crappy avantgarde performance (for you)”, “One minute movements”, “Right kind of family”, “Touch my tra la la” & “Mrs. Uterus & me”, at Traumschicht Kollektiv queere Filmtage, a…
Cultural Confluences: The Art of Lenore Chinn June 6 -24, 2011 Opening Reception, June 8, 2011 at 6pm The Luggage Store Gallery San Francisco Cultural Confluences: The Art of Lenore Chinn celebrates the public unveiling of The Oracle Room, a painting for which the artist received a San Francisco Arts…
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – JUNE 6, 2012 – Presented by Femina Potens Art Gallery at Off Center as part of the National Queer Arts Festival Join our panel of feminists, queer artists, activists, counter-culture renegades and performance artists for a night of interactive performance art, film screenings, and artist panel…