Queers in Space, hosted by RANDY, at Participant Inc., was a hit. The films were awesome and so was the crowd. Thank you for joining us for fun and in support of both RANDY and the YES (Youth Enrichment Services) Division of The Center.
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Emily Roysdon is the Guest Curator of Capricious #12 The Protest Issue and Photographer, Alice O’Malley was featured in the same issue, so we are pleased to re-post an excerpt from this review in Hyperallergic.com by Kate Wadkins on January 18, 2012
Please visit Hyperallergic.com for the full article!
“Queer arts have been gaining momentum and paying healthy homage to history as they take root in Brooklyn. On the heels of an eventful December with World AIDS Day events throughout the city, Illegitimate And Herstorical opened at A.I.R. Gallery on January 5. Curated by Emily Roysdon (a collaborator with MEN and a founder of “feminist genderqueer” artist collective LTTR), Illegitimate And Herstorical is one of the strongest group shows culled from open-call submissions that I’ve seen of late.
Detail of L.J. Roberts’s “The Queer Houses of Brooklyn” (click to enlarge)
L.J. Roberts stole the spotlight with her colorful and textual “The Queer Houses of Brooklyn in The Three Towns of Breukelen, Boswyck, & Midwout in the 41st Year of the Stonewall Era” (referring to the uprisings that sparked the gay rights movement in the late 1960s) (2011). The large knit piece takes up an entire wall and cascades onto the floor. It is covered with the names of current queer collective houses painstakingly embroidered. A section of gold fabric in the middle of the piece depicts a map of the houses, and at the end of the fringes there is a sea of scattered 1” buttons which are free for the taking. Honoring queer traditions (like the AIDS quilt), as well as the practices of sharing and do-it-yourself activities, Roberts undoubtedly infused the gallery with exuberance and a sense of community.
Bland Boydston III, “Self-portrait” (2011)
Photographic works, like those by Alice O’Malley, Bland Boydston III and Tobaron Waxman, at times seem nostalgic and at other points has an air of current and palpable tumult. While Boydston’s work is predominantly self-portraiture, O’Malley provides photographs from a bygone era (namely the 1990s) of queer culture in New York. Her photos are playful and in their presentation give an air of a wall inside of a loved one’s home, a tribute. O’Malley’s work in content reminds me of the work of Alvin Baltrop, but these are more light-hearted.
Wall of works by Alice O’Malley.”
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RANDY magazine is very pleased to present a double-feature event at Participant Inc. Join us for this otherworldly pairing of the cosmic films No Gravity and Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same.
No Gravity (2010, dir. by Silvia Casalino, 60 min.)
Silvia Casalino is a Space Engineer working for the French Space Agency, CNES who dreams of going to space. Confronted with social stereotypes, Silvia finds her intellectual mentor in the feminist theorist Donna Haraway, who introduces her to cyborg culture. Her dreams become reality as she embarks on an unusual and bizarre journey, which leads her to the icons of female space travel. An essayist documentary, No Gravity is a personal story and a take on the history of women in space and the relationship between gender and technology.
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (2011, dir. Madeleine Olnek, 75 min.)
In this mash-up of lo-fi New York City romantic comedy and a sci-fi B-movie, space aliens are sent to Earth on a mission to save their planet by infiltrating New York City’s lesbian dating scene. Two of the aliens, fall into an unfortunate romance with each other, but the third, meets Jane (Lisa Haas), an Earthling of mild manners who lives an uneventful life and works in a stationery store. Unaware that the sudden object of her affection is an alien (despite her bald head and monotone speech), Jane falls hard. Meanwhile, two undercover government agents are following Jane in order to find the spaceship and cover up the existence of the aliens.
*Official selection of 2011 Sundance Film Festival*
$5 suggested donation
PARTICIPANT INC.,
Friday, January 27th
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And among them are a number of Capricious artists! If you don’t already know these artists, let us give you a brief introduction:
K8 Hardy has just released an artist monograph with Capricious Publishing, titled Frank Peter John Dick. Her work also appeared in Capricious #10, The Feminist Issue. For more information or to purchase K8’s new book, click here!
Wu Tsang contributed a written piece titled, Capitalism & Sexual Difference, to RANDY zine No. 2. To read it or get your own copy, visit the RANDY website by clicking here.
Oscar Tuazon had his photographs published in Capricious #5, The Future Issue (sold out). Here are a couple of the images shown in that volume of Capricious:
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$15, designed exclusively by Amber Ibarreche, for Capricious.
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