The Programme of the Midsumma 2012 queer arts festival in Melbourne, Australia has been published this week. Midsumma is a federation of arts and cultural events spread over 70 different venues throughout Melbourne. The festival will run from Sunday January 15 to Sunday February 5, 2012. If features a big…
Video: Jerusalem Portrait by Liliana Kleiner, 2011. The video is produced in collaboration with Itai Frumin original music and animation Out and proud painter Liliana Kleiner explains that her latest body of works are about her inner search and a search for feminine spirit in Jerusalem. Liliana Kleiner is a…
For 25 years, GLAAD has worked with news, entertainment and social media to bring culture-changing stories of LGBT people into millions of homes and workplaces every day. GLAAD organises an anual auction, the OUTAuction. On November 20, 2011, 5pm the OUTAuction will be held at Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th…
video (25.33): This film celebrates the life and work of Laura Gilpin (USA), an artist whos career spanned 76 years yet who worked most of that time in obscurity. Photographer and lesbian Laura Gilpin (1891 – 1979) came from Colorado, USA and lived there most of her life. At 1917…
By Tania Hammidi San Francisco: Man as Object. Women Artists Look at Men and Masculinity – Art Exhibition Re-envisions Gender, Society and The Politics of Exposure. Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze slideshow by Tania Hammidi Here is some footage from Man As Object: Reversing the Gaze exhibit at SOMArts/…
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…