ARTINFO spoke with American filmmaker Su Friedrich about her film Gut Renovation (2012). About Su Friedrich Su Friedrich earned a B.A. in Art and Art History in 1975. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and is currently a Professor in the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts at…
Category: Artist talk
Video (1:14:15): Artist talk by Carrie Moyer, January 28, 2014 In the above lecture American painter Carrie Moyer talks about her abstract paintings only and not about her activism. About Carrie Moyer “Carrie Moyer, painter, writer and activist, melds hard graphic shapes with biomorphic forms in expertly handled acrylic, or…
Video published by Gender Forum. On May 21, 2014 Jack Halberstam delivered a public lecture at Karaköy Minerva Palas, Istanbul. The event was organized by Sabanci University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Gender Studies Club (Cins Kulüp), and Gender and Women Studies Forum. The title of Jack Halberstam’s lecture…
Part 6 of the conference, The Feminist Breast: Women, Nudity and Portraiture The Feminist Breast: Women, Nudity and Portraiture, 2011 Speaker: Artist Clarity Haynes College Art Association Conference Panel/Special Event, February 12, 2011. Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Panelists: Brandon Brame Fortune, Curator, National Portrait Gallery; Diane Radycki, Director, Payne…
Excerpt part 5 of The Feminist Breast: Women, Nudity and Portraiture conference: Artist Patricia Cronin from bportraitprojct on Vimeo. Published 2011. Part 5 of The Feminist Breast: Women, Nudity and Portraiture Artist Patricia Cronin on White Marmorean Flock and her book HARRIET HOSMER – LOST AND FOUND. A CATALOGUE RAISONNE…
Video published by Southbank Centre, the UK’s largest arts centre Southbank Centre: Guerrilla Girls: Estrogen Bombing at Yoko Ono’s Meltdown, 2013. – Watch the entire session from the Purcell Room in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. The Guerrilla Girls use facts, humour and fake fur to expose discrimination and corruption in…
Artist talk by Deborah Kass, 2013 My Elvis +, an exhibition of paintings by Deborah Kass at Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York. The exhibition features works from The Warhole Project, which she started working on back in 1992. My Elvis + follows Kass’s mid-career retrospective, Deborah Kass: Before and Happily…
Guerrilla Girls: Art and Feminism, 2013 GUERRILLA GIRLS 1985-2013 AT ALHÓNDIGA BILBAO, SPAIN The feminist arts activist group Guerrilla Girls presented their 25 anniversary exhibition in Bilbao, Spain, in 2013. The above video is about their exhibition. Two members of the group discusses their work to make the art world…
Video (17:34 min): A quilt talk by Mina Kay Meyer and Sharon Raphael from the ALMS conference that the Mazer Lesbian Archives hosted in 2011. Mina Meyer and Sharon Raphael, who are based in San Francisco, talk about being a lesbian activist, their work for the movement through 40 years(!)…
Excerpt from Queer Cultural Center Newsletter March – 2014 Reel Warrior: Pratibha Parmar in Conversation with Allan deSouza March 13, 7:00pm Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th St, San Francisco, USA FREE and open to the public Pratibha Parmar is a international filmmaker known for bringing complex subjects into mainstream media…
Strange Loop Gallery owner Claire Fleury shares her perspective on the Gallery show featuring the photography of Danish lesbian photographer Goodyn Green, September 2013.
Artist talk by painter Alma Lopez, 2011. Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s Irreverent Apparition Alma López is a Mexican-born Queer Chicana artist. In 2011 author, artist and activist Alma López offered a lecture at NHU in New Mexico, about her latest book Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s Irreverent…
This artis talk was published in 2012 by SmithMuseumArt’s videostream at YouTube. Artist Sheila Pepe speaks about installing her site-specific installation, “Redhook at Bedford Terrace.” Smith College Museum of Art, July- October, 2008. Video made by One Match Films.
Photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi will show new photographs and a new video produced in Durban as a part of a presetation exploring Black Frees (the generation born post-apartheid South Africa: known as Mandela’s great-grandchildren), and how each person expresses him/herself queerly at the time of troubling hate crimes…
Press release Queer and Trans Art-iculations: Collaborative Art for Social Change Zanele Muholi and Gabrielle Le Roux [at WITS ART MUSEUM, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa] Opening Wed 29 January 18h00 for 18h30. Exhibition dates: January 30 – March 30, 2014 Wits Art Museum, in partnership with Wits…
Suggestions of a Life Being Lived. 2010 The exhibition Suggestions of a Life Being Lived at the SF Camerawork gallery in San Francisco, September 2010 was co-curated by Adrienne Skye Roberts and Danny Orendorff. In this video Adrienne takes us on a walk through the exhibition. Catalogue The exhibition was…
‘So many stories. So many films.’ Spotlight: Illma Gore – Artist from SeemaD Pictures on Vimeo. Description Of The Video: “This is the first short doco film in a new series by Seema Dudley known as So many stories. So many films. Spotlight is on Illma Gore, an artist from…
Forgiven by Jina Wallwork Forgiven By Jina Wallwork Paperback: 150 pages Publisher: Jina Wallwork (19 Nov 2012) ISBN-10: 0956458157 ISBN-13: 978-0956458155 Forgiveness is inevitable. There exists a point where you can do nothing other than let go. It is never a question of whether you should or you shouldn’t. It…
Dwora Fried interview October 25, 2013 by Galerie Benedict Blob About Dwora Fried Jewish artist and lesbian Dwora Fried was born in Vienna, Austria. She studied art in Israel and has been based in Los Angeles since 1978. She creates collages and assabmlages in small boxes.
Visual artist and queer woman Sharon Hayes talks about her art project “In the Near Future”, a slide installation at the Contemporary Art Gallery, 2011.