Hello from Anthea,
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If you are in the San Francisco area this June, please join us for QIY – Queer It Yourself: Tools for Survival at SOMArts Gallery. My newest work, Queer Survival Campout Snowcave, filmed during our big Ontario blizzard this winter, is part of the exhibition. Brrrrr!
\nHave a great summer!<\/p>\n
Hello from Anthea, If you are in the San Francisco area this June, please join us for QIY – Queer It Yourself: Tools for Survival at SOMArts Gallery. My newest work, Queer Survival Campout Snowcave, filmed during our big Ontario blizzard this winter, is part of the exhibition. Brrrrr! Have…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-festival","category-art-project"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tQIY - Queer It Yourself: Tools for Survival<\/code>
\nJune 4 \u2013 23, 2011
\nSOMArts
\nSan Francisco, USA
\nFree entrance<\/p>\nQIY - Queer It Yourself: Tools for Survival Press Release<\/code>
\n“Inspired by the late 1960s utopian builders\u2019 guide A Whole Earth Catalog, QIY: Queer It Yourself \u2013 Tools for Survival presents a forum for queer do-it-yourself culture and alternative world making.
\nQIY is envisioned as a laboratory for creating a sustainable queer culture and demonstrating the power of self and community organizing, re-creation, speculation, and transformation. As an antidote to anti-sociality theories of queerness (that suggest queerness can only be rendered as a negation of heteronormativity), Queer It Yourself invites artists to forge their own tools for confronting the everyday challenges of contemporary queer existence.
\nThe exhibition presents artists\u2019 workstations, participatory spaces, hands-on training sites, maps, artwork, ephemera, and user-friendly art that foreground immersive and interactive experiences. These works demonstrate how art can provide active and meaningful tools for surviving our contemporary lived world.
\nThe curators have queered the index of the original \u201cWhole Earth Catalog\u201d and adapted its thoughtful and useful categories to reinvent our own catalog of queer tool-making and to frame this QIY space.”<\/p>\nArtists in the Exhibition:<\/code>
\nBlack, Anthea
\nBolingbroke, Richard
\nBombardier, Cooper Lee
\nBoy with Arms Akimbo
\nBruehl, Timothy
\nBund, Wayne
\nCanogullari, Esra
\nCarland, Tammy Rae
\nCollins, Liz
\nCoyl, Finley
\nCries of San Francisco
\nDer Ananian, Greg
\nDirtStar
\nField, Robin
\nGamboa, Ricardo
\nGeller, Marc
\nGoldstein, Daniel
\nGLBT Historical Society
\nJora, Stephan
\nKatz, Dorian
\nLiebegott, Ali
\nLuengsuraswat, Bo
\nLuna, Mev
\nMarano, Florencia
\nMartin, Diana
\nMillion Fishes Gallery
\nMurphy, Annie
\nNovy, Jeremy
\nJulie Perini
\nPlaster, Joey
\nRobinson, Eric
\nSanders, Jeremy
\nSando, Cee
\nSmith, Allison
\nThe Cockettes
\nVanguard Magazine
\nVisual Aid
\nWilson, A\u2019dra
\nWood, Rachel
\nWORKSHOPS
\nSeaman, Kevin
\nSopprani, Ernesto<\/p>\nQIY curatorial committee:<\/code>
\nTerri Berlier, Josh Faught, Jordy Jones, Rudy Lemcke (Chair), Matt McKinley, Pamela Peniston, and Tina Takemoto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"