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On
its 5th Anniversary, the
NATIONAL QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL is examining how
issues of the intersection of race/culture and queerness can be
expressed by the arts in our community. As a microcosm of the
world, the Queer Community encompasses its full diversity; how
we differ or mirror that larger world is the question that many
of our artists have addressed for this festival. A large percentage
of our events will focus on the construction of racial identity
and/or racism from the queer artist's perspective. The artists
mine the past and present and create a future to express their
vision. These visions are, at times, hilarious and pointed in
their satire, tragic or triumphant in their outcome, and always
original as we have come to expect.
Please
visit somArts events for more
for the full FESTIVAL SCHEDULE and TICKETS
contact www.queerculturalcenter.org;
or phone NQAF: 415.865.5611; or e-mail
NQAF@aol.com
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June
8 – 28
Gallery Hours: June 8 – 28; Noon – 6 pm,
Wednesdays – Sundays
Opening & Reception: Friday, June 7; 6-8pm Donation at door
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Men
of Color: Nudes at Ease, Laurie Toby Edison
In
a world where virtually the only male nudes we see are posed, sexualized,
and/or manipulated images of a very narrow range of fetishized men,
photographer Laurie Toby Edison's work brilliantly expands and elaborates
our images of masculinity. This selection of black-and-white photographs
from her internationally acclaimed series Familiar Men provides
breathtaking new insights into the bodies and lives of men of color
across a broad range of age, size, and class.
The
Female Gaze, Maryann Luera
Painter Maryann Luera turns
the beam of objectified, idealized beauty back onto men with startling
and sensually beautiful results. Over the centuries in the visual
arts, men have objectified women through images of a male-determined
idealized beauty. Taking up that mantle and taking her cues from
fashion magazines like GQ, Luera flips the male gaze on its head
in her stunning renderings of male beauty. Luera's exquisite technique
and lush palette combine for strange and uncommonly seductive and
compelling male portraits.
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June
8; 2 pm
Tickets: $5-$10, Sliding Scale
NQAF: 415.865.5611, www.queerculturalcenter.org
WHOSE
GAZE IS IT ANYWAY?
Discussion
Laurie Toby Edison & Maryann Luera
Photographer Laurie Toby Edison and painter Maryann Luera, both queer
women, have chosen to work artistically with images of men. In conjunction
with their exhibitions at the SomArts gallery, the two artists will
discuss their work, and the reactions audiences have to it, contrasting
EdisonŐs realistic black-and-white nude portraits with LueraŐs stylized
reimaginings of commercial and eroticized imagery.
June
9; 2pm
Tickets: $5-$15 sliding scale
NQAF: 415.865.5611, www.queerculturalcenter.org
CONTESTED
FLESH: FAGS DISSECT THE BAWDY POLITIC OF BODY POLITICS
Artist Barbara Kruger once wrote, "your body is a battleground." She
meant that to apply to women's bodies, but the phrase also applies powerfully
to the bodies of queer men. Our bodies are forever contested, legislated
against, assaulted, ravaged, and glorified. Our bodies are also our
centers of power and beauty, pleasure and knowledge. Four panelists
will dissect the bawdy politic of fag flesh, addressing these and other
contested areas: age, male cocks/pussies, HIV as biology and metaphor,
melanin, muscles, and good fur/bad fur. Panelists include: Rene Broussard,
Pedro Bustos, Laurie Toby Edison, Professor Elias Farajaje-Jones, and
Joel B. Tan. Artist and cultural worker Jaime Cortez will moderate the
panel.
B/GLAM:
The Black Gays/Gaze
B/GLAM (Black Gay Letters and Arts Movement) in
conjunction with the Queer Cultural Center presents
"The Black Gays/Gaze," a series consisting of a reading, an art exhibit,
a screening, a performance and a conversation that looks at the intersections
of blackness, desire, sexuality, race and spirit.
Wednesdays-Sundays,
June 5-16
Reception: Thursday June 13; 6 pm
Tickets:
$10-$15 Sliding Scale
Black
Inches: (re) Measuring Blackness, Desire, Art and Pornography B/GLAM
Exhibitions
showcasing black gay artists who use pornography that features black gay
men as the impetus for thinking about and creating art.
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Friday,
June 14; 8 pm
Tickets: $10-$15 Sliding Scale
The
Mangina Monologues B/GLAM
An evening of performance (monologues, song, dance)
that celebrates Black male sexuality, our sexual awakenings, our de-flowerings,
our self-sex concepts, our formation/enjoyment/participation in top/bottom
dynamics, our desires of the "other," our fetishes, and all the stories
that talk about our "manginas." The evening will be choreographed/organized/conceptualized
by Johari Jabir and Marvin K. White. We are looking for truths, revelations,
and celebrations.
Saturday,
June 15; 8 pm
Tickets: $10-15, Sliding Scale
Between
Pathos and Seduction: The Erotic Read B/GLAM
An erotic reading that voices a myriad of Black
gay writers whose ideas about desire, fantasy, love and sex are both
different and similar.
June
21-29
Opening Reception: Friday, June 21; 6- 8 pm & Saturday, June 22; 6-8
pm
Saturday, June 22; 1-8 pm, Tuesday June 25 thru Saturday June 29, 1-4
pm
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Kriss
De Jong and Eliot Daughtry of Killer Banshee Studios
Combining works in conversions of media, Flux is a display of
ancient technique combined with modern technology. Works in traditional
forms flow from computer manipulated drawings, and become paintings,
panels and sculpture; while paintings become projections. Threads
of thought are caught as a singular image, and narrative, while
suggested, is open to interpretation. Flux combines art and the
technology of making art in a comprehensive array of media and
techniques, and resonates on concepts of gender, change, transformation,
and personal mythology. More info: www.killerbanshee.com
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