Sink or Swim by Su Friedrich

This is a short clip from the film ‘SINK OR SWIM’ (1990, 48min.16mm) by New York-based filmmaker Su Friedrich. [The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.] Related link Su Friedrich at Wikipedia…

Linda Stein

Lecture by Lesbian Artist Linda Stein

Video (40:41): lecture “Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females — How Art is a Catalyst for Gender Justice Against Bullying and Bigotry” by artist Linda Stein. The video was recorded at International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy in the UN,”The 70th Anniversary of the Establishment of the UN: Developing Initiatives to Promote Cultural…

Interview with Linda Stein

CUNY-TV “Arts in the City”: interview with artist and activist Linda Stein, (2014). Gender justice exhibition ‘THE FLUIDITY OF GENDER: SCULPTURE BY LINDA STEIN’ features sculptures and wearable art such as armor and ‘bully proof vests’ in order to start a conversation about bravery. The travelling exhibition is on display…

LOOKING FOR JIRO ONUMA

LOOKING FOR JIRO ONUMA; part 1: history and research. LOOKING FOR JIRO ONUMA: Queer Perspectives on Wartime Incarceration, a lecture, artist talk and screening by Professor Tina Takemoto of the California College of the Arts (2014). LOOKING FOR JIRO ONUMA; part 2: artist talk, film screening and question & answer…

How Art and Design Changed AIDS

Video (1:46:49): A recording by The New School of the a panel discussion of arts activists including Avram Finkelstein, Joy Episalla, Nancy Brooks Brody, Luis Carle and Tony Whitfield discussing the future of AIDS advocacy. The event commemorates the 25th Anniversary of Day With(out) Art with a keynote lecture by…

Exhibition View: photos by Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence – Extended!

Press release by Brooklyn Museum Zanele Muholi (South African, born 1972). Faces and Phases installed at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany, 2012. (Photo: © Anders Sune) Brooklyn Museum Extends Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence “Identity was used as a weapon, a tool for subjugation and oppression. Apartheid left a searing impression on Muholi,…

Queer Art Bites

Queer Art Bites Salon

Queer Art Bites – a LGBTQIA+ Art and Culture Salon Using ‘queer’ as a term to focus attention on LGBTQIA+ art and culture, the Queer Art Bites salon will give insight to the infinite range of queer creative output. Queer Art Bites (QAB) – ‘RIP Pride special’ Wednesday, October 21,…

Photo by Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi’s Transformations

Look Again. Photograph from the series Somnyama Ngonyama. Credit: Zanele Muholi/Yancey Richardson Gallery/Stevenson Gallery. Zanele Muholi featured in The New York Times Magazine Zanele Muholi’s Transformations – A photographer known for taking striking portraits of members of the black queer community in South Africa turns the camera on herself. By…

Queer/Art/Mentorship Program 2015

Excerpt from Leslie-Lohman Museum’s newsletter Queer/Art/Mentorship Program 2015 Opening Reception: Friday, October 16, 6-8 pm Exhibition Dates: October 17-18 & 24-25, 12-6 pm Screening: Friday, October 23, 6-8pm Queer/Art/Mentorshipp announces its second Annual Exhibition, to be held at the Prince St. Project Space programming administered by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of…

Do Queer Feminist Interventions at Museums Work?

Funktionieren queerfeministische Interventionen im Museum? A conversation with the curators of the exhibition “Homosexuality_ies”, (June 26, 2015 – December 1, 2015 at Schwules Museum* and Deutschen Historischen Museum in Berlin Germany). Saturday, 17 October 2015, at 5.30 pm until 7 pm Venue: Heinrich Böll Stiftung Berlin, Schumannstraße 8, Berlin. 30…

Mary Coble 2015

Berlin: Mary Coble – Performing Queer Resistance

Press release by Schwules Museum* Artist Talk: Mary Coble – Performing Queer Resistance Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 19:00 Schwules Museum*, Berlin, Germany Mary Coble, artist and educator will discuss queer strategies of resistance through artistic practice and activism. Coble’s live work and multimedia installations revolve around queer politics, poetics…