He recently completed a two - week intensive studying artists» publications with New York - based magazine Triple Canopy, and presented a talk on science fiction, pornography and
queer desire as part of the Bodies on Display festival in September.
Not exact matches
«What annoys me is that no one, not even
queers, can imagine anything other than marriage
as a model for organizing our
desires.
In the New Directions collection, Whitney Monaghan considers
queer mash - up videos
as sites reflecting the
desire of fans to hold onto fleeing moments of screen queerness, positioning them
as an archive of
queer ephemerality.
By setting intimate moments alongside landmark events (such
as the Black Popular Culture Conference in 1991, the truce between the Crips and the Bloods in 1992, the Black Male exhibition at the Whitney in 1994, and the Black Nations /
Queer Nations Conference in 1995), the archive constructs collective and private narratives to comment on identity,
desire, sexuality, and loss.
In her remarks, Thomas was candid about her standing in the art world
as a
queer black woman and her
desire to serve
as a beacon for others, according to Vogue.
BLUR Hauntings I wanted body
as form and vice versa Eyes, Lilacs & Spunk:
Queer Aesthetic from Suggestion into Abstraction Re-imagined Boundaries Nineteen Penises On The Road — A Tribute To The Campaign To End AIDS Body - Ography Night Work The Pride Show
Queer Body Politic (s)
DESIRE IN THE WEB Untitled
Work from 1861 to 1967 by artists with diverse sexualities and gender identities will be showcased, and will range from covert images of same - sex
desire such
as Simeon Solomon's Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene 1864 through to the open appreciation of
queer culture in David Hockney's Going to be a Queen for Tonight 1960.
From his groundbreaking work on LGBTQ youth issues during the AIDS crisis, to his subversive writing in mainstream comic book companies such
as Milestone Media, DC Comics, and Marvel, in addition to his independent work for
queer and multicultural publishing, Ivan Velez: Bronx Haiku offers an engaging survey of one artist's
desire to bring change and diversity into an art form that plays an indelible role in American popular culture.
These paintings also explore the artist's own
queer desire, illustrating the possibility that, per our society, her attraction to these subjects might be transgressive — even tainting: Mellor's scopophilia manifests
as a disfiguration of her amorous objects.
Kalup Linzy's Lollypop (2006), a lip - synced rendering of a saucy, banned duet from the 1930s, and the photographic works of LADZ (John Arsenault and Adrian Gilliland) reminds us that the fear of HIV transmission remains a backdrop for the most innocent of
desires, and that
queer identity for many hinges not only on loving
as one wishes, but often a daily negotiation for survival
as well.
In Warholian fashion, Johnson often imbues his work with
queer desire and dry melancholy
as he mines lowbrow registers of American culture, resituating material drawn from such sources
as People magazine, pulp fiction, celebrity auto - biographies, Hollywood histories, and advertisements.
A rainbow flag is to be hoisted over Tate Britain
as the gallery opens the first major exhibition dedicated to
queer British art, from covert images of same - sex
desire by Simeon Solomon to the couldn't care less enjoyment of David Hockney.