Femina Potens Art Gallery in San Francisco presents an animalistic group exhibition that showcases mystical positions of power, the primal sensuality of the beast, and the conception of a newborn carnal mythology.
Laura Lilja is a queer multimedia artist based in Finland. She earned her Master of Arts from University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland in 2004. On March 10, 2010 at 19:30 hrs Århus Kunstbygning, Århus, Denmark, will be screening Laura’s art videos ‘Res publica’.
Kate Borstein graduated Brown University, USA in 1969. She is a Jewish-American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist, who teaches at universities around the world. Kate is a transexual dyke. Here (in the video above) she talks about what Brown taught her and encourages us to continue the spirit of the 1960’ies
‘Roof’ (8 min.) is an art video by Queer French Filmmaker Emilie Jouvet, and she tells that the film is a “Threesome on school roof : Kat, me, and you, bandes de petits pervers!”
American photographer Cass Bird’s has given an artist talk, which was documented on video (15 min). Here she discusses her photography, which began as an outlet, a replacement for verbal communication.
Avantgarde lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer’s new book, a monography about her life and films has just come out. The title is ‘HAMMER!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life’.
Now I have got my copy of American photographer Zoe Leonard’s new monograph: ‘Zoe Leonard Photographs’. The book was published in 2008, when she had her first mid-career retrospective show at Fotomuseum Winterthur in Austria.
Emilie Jouvet – Queer photographer and filmmaker, she works also as a freelance photographer for magazines. Here is a video with an interview with Emilie.
For the last couple of weeks I have been sharing some videos about queer photographers from the USA, which I have found on YouTube, with you. However, no presentation of the diversity of American lesbian/queer photography would be ‘perfect’ without a video about the works of the great woman, who founded lesbian photography in America: Tee Corinne.
In the autumn 2009 queer photographer Molly Landreth (USA) was interviewed by Michelle Bonfils about her art project ‘Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life In America’ which is a collaboration with Australian video artist Amelia Tovey.
Exhibition Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America and artist talk by Amelia Tovey and Molly Landreth: February 23, 2010 at Amerika Haus, Munich, Germany
Photographer Collier Schorr photographs wrestlers, mainly the Blair (highschool) wrestling team, and discusses why she’s interested in the sport and its athletes.
American photographer Judy Francesconi takes photos of lipstic lesbians. Judy has been shooting gorgous lesbian models with perfect bodies and beautiful faces for about 10 years. Here is a video about how she works with her models.
Artist Catherine Opie discusses identity and how it is perceived and shaped through portraits of close friends in the Los Angeles lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and transvestite community.
Manchester Pride in Great Britain is inviting local lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organisations, promoters and individuals to apply for grants
The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize rewards a cash prize of £30,000 to a living photographer. Zoe Leonard (b.1961, USA) is among the nominees this year. She is nominated for her retrospective exhibition ‘Zoe Leonard – Photographs’, at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2009.
Lost and Found – Queerying the Archive – an international group exhibition is comming to Umea, Sweden January 2010. And Bildmuseet and Umeå centrum för genusstudier will organize a couple of queer seminars, where you can me some of the visual artists.
‘Feral’ opens on Wednesday January 27, 2010 at Sloan Fine Art in New york. The Exhibition features queer artist Heather Sherman’s latest paintings.
Tejal Shah (b. 1979) is an Indian visual artist working with video, photography and installation.Tejal is going to Sweden for the opening of the ‘Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive’ in Umea and she will be presenting her art works at the seminar ‘Queer in Theory and Pratctice’ at Bildmuseet, Umea University, Sweden, Saturday January 30, 2010.
The lesbian curators Leslie Miller and Jess Jogel will be closing their Fontanelle Gallery in Portland, USA, and they have send me a letter inviting everyone to their closing party.