Text by Birthe Havmoeller. Film stills by Deirdre Logue.
Super Feminist – a queer video by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan have collaborated for a decade. They are based in Winnipeg, Canada. They are two of Canada’s best known queer performance artists. They make some very funny feminist videos as well as live performances, and public art projects.
Queer artist Anthea Black has just opend a new exhibtion at SNAP’s Studio Gallery in Edmonton, Alberta. The show includes poster editions from Anthea Black’s collaborative ‘looking for love in all the wrong places’ project and new works from her residency at SNAP this winter. Exhibition Duration: July 23rd – September 5th,…
Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty is the first guest speaker talk of the seminar of ‘Fotografiens Dag’ in Horten, Norway. She will be talking about ‘Gay Kids’.
Photographer Verena Jaekel’s latest art project ‘New Family Portraits – Neue Familienportraits’ consists of a series of portraits that investigates the issue of current new family constellations.
Homo A Go Go (HAGG) is an internationally attended festival of queer music, film, art, performance, and activism. This year the festival includes workshops and group shows by visual artists from all over the world. This year’s group art show, which is entitled ‘Homegrown’, can be visited at SOMArts Gallery,…
‘Reality’ by Marianne Strøm / Arm Strom Marianne Strøm (alias Arm Strom) is a lesbian Norwegian. She is a mixed media artist, who lives in Oslo. She has sent the following statement to Feminine Moments: Since EuroPride in Oslo 2005, I have exhibited together with the group ‘Skeive kunstnere’ (Queer Artists)….
You may think that I am referring to my personal life, but I am not. “Looking for love in all the wrong places” is a postering project/networking project for queer artists to collaborate, takeover and discuss safe spaces for queers in Alberta, Canada and beyond. If you are in Alberta watch…
Swiss artist Caroline Juillard is based in Geneva. She studied photography at Ecole de photographie de Vevey.
New England’s second annual QWOC WEEK, August 2nd-9th, a multicultural pride festival produced by Queer Women of Color and Friends (QWOC+ Boston), will feature local LGBT Visual Artists of color as part of week-long art exhibition, entitled “OUTside the Box: a Queer People of Color Visual Artist Exhibit.” Opening reception…
‘Egoless’ Visual Art Exhibition August 8-29, 2009 Opening Reception Aug. 8, 7:30pm Artist Discussion Panel for Members & Press Aug. 8, 6pm Femina Potens Art Gallery 2199 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94114 Femina Potens writes about the ‘Egoless’ group art show: ‘In May 2009 we divided our fifteen participating artists…
Opening reception of the exhibition was on Wedensday, July 29, 2009, 17.00, at DASK Gallery, Copenhagen.
GENDER TEST – Playing with Identity, July 24 – August 2, 2009
Earlier this year Barbara Hammer got the Teddy Award for the best short film for her film ‘A Horse Is Not A Metaphor’ at The International Berlin Film Festival.
Film still from Cecilia Barriga’s video work ‘Meeting of Two Queens’, 1991. In the experimental video ‘Meeting of Two Queens: Encuentro entre dos Reinas’, Spain, 1991, Cecilia Barriga, a Chilean video artist, recasts the beautiful old Hollywood filmstars Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich in silent film style to tell…
The National Portrait Gallery quotes Sandi Toksvig in their introduction of the exhibition ‘Gay Icons’: ‘How I wish this selection had been available to me when I was young and trying to make sense of my reactions to the world. How inspirational to have had portraits of the great and…
July 24 – August 13 2009 you can see Danish photographer Charlotte Haslund-Christensen‘s exhibition ‘I SKABET’ (In the closet) at Galleri Signe Vad, Nansensgade 47, Copenhagen, Denmark. Charlotte has made mugshots of homosexual Danes. You may know some of her models, because they are all out and proud gay people,…
Lesbian art was on display in Fontanelle Art Gallery downtown Portland, Oregon, USA, during the Portland pride in June 2009. The exhibition ‘Lesbian Art show’, which can be seen on the Fontanelle Gallery’s website now, is made by the artists Mary McAlister, Azsa West and Aubree Bernier-Clarke. Mary explained recently…
Dyketactics & Other Films from the 1970’s by Barbara Hammer from Barbara Hammer’s video stream on Vimeo. Nitrate Kisses (1992) by Barbara Hammer. Nitrate Kisses is an essay documentary, which explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture. First feature by a pioneer of lesbian cinema,…
Femina Potens Art Gallery invites you to the opening reception of ‘Show me your fantasy’, July 11, 2009, 7-10pm at Femina Potens Art Gallery 2199 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA. Femina Potens is a grassroots non-profit art gallery & performance space, which hosts queer art shows. For their july…