Photographic Memory: Bay Area Student Experimental Film Festival 2010 October 27th 2010 7:30p TO BUY TICKETS CLICK HERE:   (BERKELEY ART MUSEUM & PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE )

Photographic Memory: Bay Area Student Experimental Film Festival 2010

October 27th 2010 7:30p

TO BUY TICKETS CLICK HERE:  

(BERKELEY ART MUSEUM & PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE )

Suggestions of a Life Being Lived is a bold presentation of contemporary work that looks at queerness as a set of political alliances and possibilities. The exhibition features 16 artists working in photography, film, video, activism and education, and was organized for SF Camerawork by guest curators Danny Orendorff and Adrienne Skye Roberts. Untethered to institutions of sexual or gender normativity and in pursuit of greater freedoms, the work in this exhibition represents queer activism, intentional and imagined communities, self-determinism, and DIY alternative world-making. Suggestions of a Life Being Lived begins from a place of “outness” and considers how a sense of liberated queerness is pursued and mediated within public spaces and behaviors. Less concerned with categorical sexual identities or coming-out narratives, this exhibition presents work that looks outward towards collective and resistant expressions of queer community existing outside of dominant gay and lesbian culture. Featuring work by: Steven Miller, Tara Mateik, Killer Banshee, Gay Shame, Kirstyn Russell, Jeannie Simms, Lenn Keller, Mercury Vapor Studios, Chris Vargas, Greg Youmans, Jason Fritz Michael, Aay Preson-Myint, Allyson Mitchell, Eric Stanley, Torsten Zenas Burns, and Darrin Martin. September 9—October 23, 2010Opening Reception: Thursday, September 9, 5 - 8 pm 

Suggestions of a Life Being Lived is a bold presentation of contemporary work that looks at queerness as a set of political alliances and possibilities. The exhibition features 16 artists working in photography, film, video, activism and education, and was organized for SF Camerawork by guest curators Danny Orendorff and Adrienne Skye Roberts. Untethered to institutions of sexual or gender normativity and in pursuit of greater freedoms, the work in this exhibition represents queer activism, intentional and imagined communities, self-determinism, and DIY alternative world-making.

Suggestions of a Life Being Lived begins from a place of “outness” and considers how a sense of liberated queerness is pursued and mediated within public spaces and behaviors. Less concerned with categorical sexual identities or coming-out narratives, this exhibition presents work that looks outward towards collective and resistant expressions of queer community existing outside of dominant gay and lesbian culture.

Featuring work by: Steven Miller, Tara Mateik, Killer Banshee, Gay Shame, Kirstyn Russell, Jeannie Simms, Lenn Keller, Mercury Vapor Studios, Chris Vargas, Greg Youmans, Jason Fritz Michael, Aay Preson-Myint, Allyson Mitchell, Eric Stanley, Torsten Zenas Burns, and Darrin Martin.

September 9—October 23, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 9, 5 - 8 pm 

KQED SHOW REVIEW: HERE “Just because there are questions, doesn’t mean there are answers” is a project inspired by a game of copy cat- trying purposefully to emulate your friend’s drawing style.  You become them and they become you.  The second drawing will always change it slightly. It’s a game that is homosexual in nature and appearance, which works well for us.  It is a game of staying inspired and connected to our queer histories and futures, of laughing in spite of deep pain, and constantly, creatively undefining ourselves so that there are more questions and less answers.  

KQED SHOW REVIEW: HERE

“Just because there are questions, doesn’t mean there are answers” is a project inspired by a game of copy cat- trying purposefully to emulate your friend’s drawing style.  You become them and they become you.  The second drawing will always change it slightly. It’s a game that is homosexual in nature and appearance, which works well for us.

 It is a game of staying inspired and connected to our queer histories and futures, of laughing in spite of deep pain, and constantly, creatively undefining ourselves so that there are more questions and less answers.

 

SEE: Images

SEE: Images

SEE: AS IS 

SEE: AS IS 

show @ down at lulu’s: 6603 telegraph oakland  http://www.downatlulus.com/

show @ down at lulu’s: 6603 telegraph oakland 

http://www.downatlulus.com/

LEZBO BONGO PERFORMANCE. 2009. 

LEZBO BONGO PERFORMANCE. 2009.