Night Ship Doc – Trailer

Trailer: Night Ship Doc by Mox Mäkelä, Finland (2015) “Ship metamorphosis – a journey from conspicuous consumption waste to glory raised platform (reflective mosaic skin), which manifests for those who are wiser than us and those who live with the author in the living interact.” About Mox Mäkelä Mox is…

Lotte Laserstein – a German painter

Lotte Laserstein (1898–1993) Born in Preussisch Holland, Lotte moved to Berlin to study at the prestigiouis Berlin Academy of Fine Arts as one of the women artists to study there in the period 1919 – 1925. She had her first solo exhibition in a Berlin gallery in 1930, but in…

Berlin: Homosexuality_ies

Press release by the Schwules Museum* The Schwules Museum* and the Deutsches Historisches Museum present the exhibition “Homosexuality_ies” from 26 June to 1 December 2015 [at the Schwules Museum*, Lützowstraße 73, 10785 Berlin.] This special exhibition on view at both museums offers an overview of the history, politics and culture…

The Comedies and Tragedies of Gays and Lesbians

Excerpt from the newsletter ‘Leslie-Lohman Museum Recommends | April 2015’ The Comedies and Tragedies of Gays and Lesbians Exhibition Dates: April 30 – June 27, 2015 at Hudson Guild Gallery, New York. Curated by Jim Pavlicovic. The exhibit is planned to be concurrent with a production by Hudson Guild Theatre…

Barbara Hammer. Meshes with Maya Deren. 2011

Lecture by Barbara Hammer. Video by European Graduate School Video Lectures (2011) Excerpt from the description of the video: ‘Barbara Hammer, experimental filmmaker, lesbian artist and feminist talking about Maya Deren. In this lecture she reads an excerpt from her book Hammer! in which she recounts her experience in discovering…

TateShots: Barbara Hammer (2012)

TateShots: Barbara Hammer (2012) Barbara Hammer Changing the Shape of Film 2012 (first performed 1979) at Tate Modern, London. About Barbara Hammer Barbara Hammer is a pivotal figure in American experimental film. An acclaimed pioneer of queer cinema, her prolific output includes the earliest avant-garde films that openly address lesbian…

Chitra Ganesh – a Time-lapse Video (2015)

A time-lapse video of the installation of Chitra Ganesh: Eyes of Time. Published by Brooklyn Museum, 2015. Chitra Ganesh: Eyes of Time December 12, 2014–July 12, 2015 Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA. [The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the…

Toronto: New Performance by Jess Dobkin

Press photo courtesy of Jess Dobkin How Many Performance Artists Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb (For Martha Wilson) Performance by Jess Dobkin Thursday, April 16 at 7:00pm – 11:15pm Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Toronto, Ontario M5A, Canada Made in response and as an ode to one of America’s…

GLITCH Film Festival

GLITCH Film Festival 2015, March 19 – 28, 2015 in Scotland features among other a series of Queer, Trans, Intersex People of Colour short film programmes – The QTIPoC Shorts – at the Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow, Scotland. The festival is organised by Digital Desparados. The QTIPOC SHORTS 4 &…

Vulvae meet Paper meet Scissors

Vulvae meet Paper meet Scissors

Collage by Ann Antidote for the exhibition Vulvae meet Paper meet Scissors Vulvae meet Paper meet Scissors – A collage of (queer) graphical collaborations With Ann Antidote, Sadie Lune, Sissi Ário, Jenny One. March and April 2015 at Other Nature, Mehringdamm 79, 10965 Berlin, Germany. Mon-Tue: 12h–18h, Wed-Sat 12h-18h Collage…

Sheila Pepe

One Lesbian Feminist: Taking Space and Making Place

Excerpt from Weekly eDigest by Leslie-Lohman Museum The Leslie-Lohman Speakers Series This newly established ongoing series of lectures will offer a minimum of one lecture per quarter with a focus on creating an environment and opportunity for studio based artists to interact with a public audience of diverse backgrounds, encouraging…

Feminist Panel Debate at Brooklyn Museum

Excerpt from the newsletter ‘Leslie-Lohman Museum Recommends | March 2015’ PANEL DISCUSSION: “I Will Resist with Every Inch and Every Breath: Punk and the Art of Feminism” March 12, 2015 7pm Brooklyn Museum Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York. Free with…

Coral Short, CPH, 2015

Coral Short in Copenhagen

Coral Short. Photo by Birthe Havmoeller. Below: Henriette, Coral and Birthe at Diamanten, Copenhagen. Selfie by Henriette Hellstern. Copenhagen last week: Canadian artist and genderqueer curator Coral Short, Danish painter and videomaker Henriette Hellstern and I, editor of Feminine Moments, met at the cafe of the Royal Library for a…