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…
Category: Performance
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…
Over Time starts on September 13 – 14 2014 with performances and other works on the foreshore and Thames Path near Enderby’s Wharf in London, UK, 11.00 to 16.00 both days and 19.45 to 22.00 on Saturday. Works from the project will be exhibited from September 19 to October 16,…
The Arcus Endowment at the College of Environmental Design & QCC present Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts: QUEER ECOLOGIES: A Gallery Event and Conversation Featuring Kim Anno and Adrian Parr Kim Anno: Water City, Berkeley (Film 2013) Adrian Parr: So To Speak (Spoken Word Performance) September 11, 5pm…
[ DOUBLE BIND #3 ] from [ RED BIND ] on Vimeo. [ DOUBLE BIND #3 ] Performance | 2013 | 26’ Video from the performance | 2013 | 3’50’’ Soundtrack | National Anthem of the Russian Federation (Государственный гимн Российской Федерации) | “Stalker” (Сталкер), Andreï TARKOVSKI (Андрей Тарковский), 1979…
BECOMING AN IMAGE Heather Cassils from Pacitti Company on Vimeo. Featuring Manuel Vason performing as photographer. National Theatre Studios, London. About Heather Cassils Heather Casssils is a queer visual artist and personal trainer, originally from Montreal, Canada and now based in California. She thinks of her physical body as a…
Rainbow Party meets the artist _2012 from Susa Cortez on Vimeo. Susana Cortez Performance piece: The body is social; the body is political by itself. Who we are, where we come from, how we see ourselves, how society and others perceive us is all about body politics. It is all…
Becoming An Image Performance Still No. 1, (ONE National Archives, Transactivations, Los Angeles), 2012, C-print face mounted to Plexiglas, 45 x 30 in. Photo: Heather Cassils with Eric Charles. Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Leslie-Lohman Museum presents an exhibition of queer feminist artists exploring the body…
Ariadne and Minotaur by Viola & Veronica, GendErotica 2013, Rome 31 May-2 June 2013 from Viola on Vimeo. Description: “What happens when Ariadne and (the) Minotaur – the secondary characters of an ancient Greek myth – meet each other in the labyrinth? The clip “Ariadne and Minotaur” is an exploration…
Press release by re.act.feminism Re.act.feminism #2 – A performing archive Editors: Bettina Knaup, Beatrice Ellen Stammer Publisher: Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst Content: 318 pages ISBN: 978-3-86984-460-2 Year: 2014 Published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg and Live Art Development Agency London Berlin: re.act.feminism Book Launch Finally – after…
Barbara Hammer as Claude Cahun in A Gay Bar from barbara hammer on Vimeo. Barbara Hammer performed Claude Cahun, May 6 – 7, 2011 at The Kitchen, NYC, in Emily Roysdon’s A Gay Bar Called Everywhere (With Costumes and No Practice). Related Link Artist Statement by avant-garde filmmaker and lesbian…
doubt it / talk series: a conversation between Josh Faught and Julia Bryan-Wilson Tues, Dec 10, 7-10 pm n/a – 4303 West St, Oakland, USA doubt it / talk series is pleased to present a conversation between 2012 seca award winning artist Josh Faught and Julia Bryan-Wilson, associate professor of…
Amelia Jones: “Queering Performance and Performing Queer: The Histrionic Performances of Nao Bustamante” from FIU Art + Art History Department on Vimeo, 2013. About Nao Bustamante Nao Bustamante is an internationally known American performance and video artist originally from California, now based in New York. Her work includes performance art,…
Press release by Allyson Mitchell & AGYU, July 17, 2013 Forget the dead this Hallowe’en Feel the pulsing throb of something larger than life in Kill Joy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House. Opening this October in Toronto. Holey Hell House! Each Hallowe’en radical evangelical groups all over the USA…
Press release by Femina Potens Earthy. Performance by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens EARTHY – AN ECOSEX BOOT CAMP Co-presented by Queer Cultural Center Center for Sex and Culture June 13th – 16th and 20th – 23rd at Center for Sex and Culture 1349 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103…
San Francisco, CA. May 18, 2013: Press Release from Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens and Femina Potens EARTHY — AN ECOSEX BOOT CAMP AIMS TO MAKE ECO-ACTIVSM MORE SEXY, FUN AND DIVERSE Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle aim to get an ‘E’ added to the ‘GLBTQI’ moniker. E is for ecosexual….
Community Action Center (trailer), by A.L. Steiner and A.K. Burns from Steiner on Vimeo. Community Action Center is a 69-minute sociosexual video by queer artists A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner. It incorporates “the erotics of a community where the personal is not only political, but sexual. This project was heavily…
Press release TERAPHIM: An Installation by Jewlia Eisenberg with Charming Hostess Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA December 6-20 Jewlia Eisenberg’s installation, TERAPHIM, has transformed the third floor of Meridian Gallery into a place of multimedia installation, ritual, and music performance. Join us at Teraphim in a space rich with new…
Artist talk by Emily Roysdon, published by BMW Tate Live in May 2012 Queer feminist artist Emily Roysdon (USA) was selected as one of the artists to make a performance for the first series of performances at BMW Tate Live’s new performance room. She created a queer feminist performance together…
Dog Betty tries to make new friends in the park, video by Birgitta Hosea, 2007 The Dog Betty movies were created by Birgitta Hosea (UK) as an experiment in being a human cartoon while artist-in-residence in the Lethaby Gallery, summer 2007. Birgitta has published an artist statement about the Dog…