Queer Futurities: holding area, gathering place

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"Queer Futurities: holding area, gathering place," 2022

We are getting excited for the Queer Futurities opening reception next week! 

Friday, May 13 from 6-9pm

A few updates:

• Tickets are sold out, but there will be a limited number of additional tickets available at the door throughout the night
• There will be a cash bar and light snacks available
• Masks are mandatory unless drinking/eating. We’re asking folks to keep masks on as much as possible! 

Queer Futurities: holding area, gathering place, a two-part project which engages the potentialities of queer collective knowledge and care through a group exhibition and workshop + performance series.

The group exhibition holding area features the works of Kitt Peacock, Edzi’u, Cassia Powell, Florence Yee, Arezu Salamzadeh, Margaret August, Nicole Mandryk, Romi Kim and Kendell Yan. Exploring what José Esteban Muñoz calls the “forward-dawning” potentials of queerness, holding area creates a temporary but affective space which holds collective knowledge. Through a range of mediums, including audio-visual installation, textiles, beading, performance and painting, the artists’ works explore the tenderness and nuance of both ‘holding’ and ‘queerness’ through alternative forms of care, storytelling, commemoration and place/space-making. By offering us fissures in hegemonic ways of being, holding area aims to reveal glimmers of futurity.

gathering place activates Queer Futurities’ themes of collective knowledge and care through skill-sharing and community gathering outside of the gallery space with workshops and performances. Programming will include a weaving workshop by Estraven Lupino-Smith, a mutual aid workshop by the Community Fridge, and a “Queer Calisthenics” performance by keiko Hart.

Join the artists for an evening of art, music & community on opening night (Friday May 13, 6-9pm), featuring a performance at 7pm by sound artist and musician Edzi’u.

upcoming events

Friday, May 13, 6-9 pm: Opening Reception, music performance by Edzi’u at 7pm

Saturday, May 14, 2-4:30 pm: Näckenswell, Performance by Kitt Peacock

Näckenswell takes the form of a ritual set around a dislocated wishing well. Visitors are invited to share in a dialogue choreographed around tales of the nixie, a water-dwelling, shape-shifting creature from Scandinavian and North English folklore. Please note that visiting groups will be asked to enter the space one at a time.

June 11, 2-4pm: Weaving Workshop by Estraven Lupino-Smith

July 2 : Mutual Aid Workshop by Community Fridge

July 23 : Community calisthenics performance by keiko Hart