Press release QUEER PROPHESIES Call for Entries Deadline: December 13, 2013 Debuting at the 2014 National Queer Arts Festival, QUEER PROPHESIES is a multidisciplinary event featuring performances and an art exhibition that will explore queer visions of the future, queer futurity and queer utopia(s). We need submissions from YOU (the…
Birthe Havmoeller, editor of Feminine Moments and a screendump of Feminine Moments version 2013. Hurray! Feminine Moments is 10 years! Birthe Havmoeller: I launched Feminine Moments in 2003, because I couldn’t find a site about contemporary art by lesbian, bisexual and queer women artists. My dream was to create a…
Trailer Elles résistent France: The program of the 2nd Elles résistent – contre les violences masculines faites aux femmes festival is online now. The second edition or this vibrant radical feminist and lesbian festival takes place on November 24 – 30 2013 at La parole errante, 9, rue Francois Debergue,…
Craftivism Sun Nov 17, 2013 @ 5:00 PM MIX NYC Curated by Coral Short, guest curator. TRT: 65 min. Queerness, feminism, and craft go hand in hand for many of these emerging contemporary artists, as they rethink and reclaim craft in their own unique ways. Sit back and let these…
Untitled by Sophia Glass and Erica Kermani, 2013 November 12 – 17 2013 MIX NYC presents the 26th New York Queer Experimental Film Festival. The queer arts programme of the film festival features a series of video installations, which includes: Untitled Sophia Glass & Erica Kermani 2013, USA, plaster and…
Excperpts from the newsletter ‘Leslie-Lohman Museum Recommends’ and www.fitnyc.edu Exhibition A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk September 13, 2013 -January 4, 2014 Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, 7th Ave at 27th St, New York, USA A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet…
I went to Cineffable Film Festival (October 30 to November 3, 2013) for the first time as a selected filmmaker…
November 12 – 17 2013 MIX NYC presents the 26th New York Queer Experimental Film Festival. The queer arts programme features a series of installations. Video installation: Breastival Vestibule Rachael Shannon 2013, USA, inflatable dome, projected video, color. (loop) This project specifically examines the practice of toplessness by women within…
Press Release by Heidi Lunabba Dresscode – You are what you wear! A community based art project by: art duo Tärähtäneet ämmät / Nutty Tarts (FI) and artist Heidi Lunabba (FI) New York City, USA 2013 and Helsinki, Finland 2012 Part of “Fashion Interactions” -exhibition November 11 – December 11,…
November 12 – 17 2013 MIX NYC presents the 26th New York Queer Experimental Film Festival. The queer arts programme features a series of installations. Installation: Sexual Chemistry Imogen Heath 2013, Germany, multi-projected 16mm, color. (loop) This two-screen, 16mm analog film installation slows the moment leading up to a kiss…
Secret Love: China’s Leading Queer Artists Secret Love is the world’s first large contemporary queer art exhibition from mainland China presenting app. 150 works of art about homosexuality, identity and norms by 28 artists. The exhibition, which premiered 21 September 2012 till 31 March 2013 at the Museum of Far…
Press release by the Guerrilla Girls, USA Top: Entry to exhibiiton with Code of Ethics poster / room 2 installation view. Middle: Room 3 installation view / one of 13 tables of ephemera / room 1 interactive wall. Bottom: Hate Speech, Estrogen Bomb projects / street banner on Alhóndiga ¡HOLA…
Press Release by Brooklyn Museum Playwright Lorraine Hansberry’s Letters to The Ladder Focal Point of Exhibition in Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn NY 11238-6052 On View November 22, 2013 – March 16, 2014 A new exhibition, Twice Militant: Lorraine Hansberry’s Letters to…
Press release by Alexander Gray Associates Rib, 2013, detail, oil and mixed media on canvas by Harmony Hammond. Courtesy of Alexander Gray Associates and Harmony Hammond Harmony Hammond Opening Reception Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 6:00 – 8:00 pm Alexander Gray Associates 508 West 26 Street #215 New York NY 10001…
[Sorry, the video has been taken down] Lola Becky Boston’s description of her video: ‘Lola is a 3 minute video, a random compilation of clips taken over a few months, of moments with my girlfriend Lola. Nothing is staged or planned I just went though a stage of constantly bringing…
Text and images: Melisa Ljubovich Pastuvka in Zürich (Bosnian female horse in Zürich), a self portrait by Melisa ‘Mel’ Ljubovich Artist Statement by Melisa ‘Mel’ Ljubovich Mel Ljubovich: In major parts of the Balkans being transparent and queer, despite your work and other activities, are not getting on well…
Text by Birthe Havmoeller / Feminine Moments Sif Itona Westerberg, photo by Birthe Havmoeller Danish art student Sif Itona Westerberg (above) is interested in rites and systems that create and uphold social and historical power structures. I met her at her latest exhibition Remains of Eternity in Copenhagen a few…
Video (19:59): Laurie Toby Edison – Women En Large and Familiar Men (2001) is available on Vimeo. In this film Laurie Toby Edison talks about her photography projects and books, ‘Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes’ and ‘Familiar Men: A Book of Nudes’.
2004 documentary by Pablo Helguera on the life and work of XIXth century Staten Island photographer Alice Austen. One book has been published about photographer Alice Austen: Alice’s World : The Life and Photography of an American Original, Alice Austen, 1866-1952 Authored by lesbian photo researcher Ann Novotny Devin-Adair Pub;…
This lecture by Richard Meyer, titled “Quarantined: Alice Austen and the Secret History of Photography,” took place on Wednesday, September 9, 2011 in Steinberg Auditorium at Washington University. Art historian Richard Meyer talks the works of American photographer Alice Austen, and lesbian visibility. He also mentions the book, which he…