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Queering the library: Queer art now

Queer art now

A selection of contemporary queer artists in the library collections from the 90s to present day:

 

Allyson Mitchell: ladies sasquatch

MITCHE

2009

The freestanding, sculptural works by Toronto-based queer artist Mitchell marry feminist theory with the artist's favourite material, fun fur. In a new twist on the legend of the Sasquatch, a wild hairy creature consistently described as solitary and male, Mitchell has assembled a congregation of anatomically correct females. Standing upright at over 10 feet tall, they are beautifully crafted creations of fun fur, taxidermy glass eyes and various fake bear parts

Arousing sensation : a case study of controversy

7.049.1 ARO

1999

When the exhibition Much Sense: Erotics and Life appeared at the Walter Phillips Gallery in 1992, public, political and media interest was intense. The artists explored issues of sexuality, expressing frank viewpoints on topics such as body image and gay and lesbian sexuality. The explicit content of their work sparked an uproar. Politicians, local and national media and coalitions of arts organizations began a rancorous media debate, alternately battering and boosting The Banff Centre for the Arts and its support of the exhibition

Artists, performers, and black masculinity in the Hatian diaspora

(729.4)7:314.054 BRA

2008

Jana Evans Braziel examines how Haitian diaspora writers, performance artists, and musicians address black masculinity through the Haitian Creole concept of gwo negs, or "big men." She focuses on six artists and their work: writer Dany Laferriere, director Raoul Peck, rap artist Wyclef Jean, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, drag queen performer and poet Assotto Saint, and queer drag king performer Dred (a.k.a. Mildred Gerestant). For Braziel, these individuals confront the gendered, sexualized, and racialized boundaries of America's diaspora communities and openly resist "domestic" imperialism that targets immigrants, minorities, women, gays, and queers. This is a groundbreaking study at the intersections of gender and sexuality with race, ethnicity, nationality, and diaspora

Between you and me:  queer disclosures in the new York art world

(747)7.049.1 BUT

2005

Focusing on the period from 1948 to 1963, Butt draws on the accusations and denials of homosexuality that appeared in the popular press, on early homophile publications such as One and the Mattachine Review, and on biographies, autobiographies, and interviews. In a stunning exposition of Larry Rivers’s work, he shows how Rivers incorporated gossip into his paintings, just as his friend and lover Frank O’Hara worked it into his poetry. He describes how the stories about Andy Warhol being too “swish” to be taken seriously as an artist changed following his breakthrough success, reconstructing him as an asexual dandy. Butt also speculates on the meanings surrounding a MoMA curator’s refusal in 1958 to buy Jasper Johns’s Target with Plaster Casts on the grounds that it was too scandalous for the museum to acquire. Between You and Me sheds new light on a pivotal moment in American cultural production as it signals new directions for art history.

Bruce LaBruce: ride queer ride

7 LABR BRU

1996

An engaging portrait of the underground filmmaker and zine maker Bruce LaBruce, founder of the Homocore movement and maker of No Skin Off My Ass, Super 81/2, and Hustler White. Included are LaBruce's diary from the making of Hustler White, a letter from the late Kurt Cobain, LaBruce's interview with performance artist Vaginal Creme Davis, and essays by filmmaker Gus Van Sant and David McIntosh of the Toronto International Film Festival. Fully illustrated with film stills, facsimilies from LaBruce's original fanzines, and candid behind-the-scenes snapshots

Coming after / Jon davies

CDN-TOR-POW

2012

Exhibition catalogue featuring the work of: Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Aleesa Cohene, Glen Fogel, Onya Hogan-Finlay, Christian Holstad, Danny Jauregui, Adam Garnet Jones, Jean-Paul Kelly, Tim Leyendekker, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, James Richards, Emily Roysdon, Dean Sameshima, Jonathan VanDyke, and Susanne M. Winterling.

Confrontations: an exhibition of queer art

IRL-COR-TRI

1998

Includes work by Paul Bommer, Heather Fleming, Tom Gleeson, Paul Kinsella, Niall Sweeney, Lynn Turner, Martin Yelverton, and others

Disidentifications : queers of color and the performance of politics / José Esteban Muñoz.

7 .071-054/055.34 MUN

1999

Jose Esteban Munoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Munoz calls this process disidentification, and through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism."Disidentifications" is also something of a performance in its own right, an attempt to fashion a queer world by working on, with, and against dominant ideology. By examining the process of identification in the work of filmmakers, performance artists, ethnographers, Cuban choteo, forms of gay male mass culture (such as pornography), museums, art photography, camp and drag, and television, Munoz persistently points to the intersecting and short-circuiting of identities and desires that result from misalignments with the cultural and ideological mainstream in contemporary urban America

Grand larceny: reclaiming histories

(73)7.036”199” GRA

1994

Includes works by contemporary queer artists

Henrik Olesen: how do I make myself a body

OLESEN

2011

Henrik Olesen (*1967 in Esbjerg) is one of Denmark’s most prominent contemporary artists. This publication features a retrospective selection of his works from the past fifteen years. In his collages, demontages, and spatial interventions, with a focus on homosexuality Olesen calls the power structures in our society and historiography into question. He draws on both contemporary as well as historical material from a wide variety of different fields, such as architecture, law, economics, the natural sciences, and art history. Olesen incorporates the homosexual body into spaces and interiors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, calling attention to the general repression of homosexuality as well as the ways it has been misleadingly represented by history."

Imágenes del desvío :|bla voz homoerótica en el arte cubano contemporáneo/ Andreas Isaac Santana

7.0491.1 SAN

2004

A collection of texts and images documenting the history of homoerotic queer art in contemporary Cuban art.

Isaac Julien: Riot

7 JULI ISA

2014

Autobiography of gay film maker and artists Isaac Julien. This title was published on the occasion of the exhibition Ten Thousand Waves held at MOMA in 2014, an immersive film installation which took inspiration from the Morecambe Bay tragedy in 2004.

Matthew Jones: poof!

JONES (S.C)

1993

https://www.accaonline.org.au/sites/default/files/1993_Matthew%20Jones_Poof%21.pdf

New Q:  queer artists, public space

AUS-MEL-NAT

1998

Catalogue of an exhibition held in the VicHealth Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, January 17 - February 15, 1998, as part of the Midsumma Festival featuring contemporary queer artists.

Pleading in the blood: the art and performance of Ron Athey / Dominic Johnson

7 ATHE PLE

2013

Ron Athey is an iconic figure in contemporary art and performance. In his frequently bloody portrayals of life, death, crisis, and fortitude in the time of AIDS, Athey calls into question the limits of artistic practice. These limits enable Athey to explore key themes including gender, sexuality, radical sex, queer activism, post-punk and industrial culture, tattooing and body modification, ritual, and religion. This landmark publication includes Athey's own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey's art and performances since the early 1980s.

Queer and trans artists of colour: stories of some of our lives

7.071-054./055.34

2014

A collection of interviews and conversations qith QTPOC artists, film makers, designers, musicians.

Queer art: a freak theory

7.01: 305 LOR

2012

A queer theory of visual art - based on extensive readings of art works in Queer Art traces the question of how strategies of denormalization initiated by visual arts can be continued through writing. In the book's three chapters art theoretical debates are combined with queer theory, postcolonial theory, and (dis-)ability studies, proposing the three terms: radical drag, transtemporal drag, and abstract drag. The works discussed include those by Zoe Leonard, Shinique Smith, Jack Smith, Wu Ingrid Tsang, Ron Vawter, Bob Flanagan, Henrik Olsesen, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sharon Hayes, and Pauline Boudry/renate Lorenz

The queer cinema of Derek Jarman

7 JARM DER

2009

Derek Jarman has been called the 'godfather' of the early 1990s cinematic movement now known as 'Queer Cinema'. 'Queer' rejects labels, challenges fixed ideas of gender and sexual identity and refuses the status of a tolerated minority, and queer imagery dominates Jarman's cinema. Yet there has been little attention given to this rich vein in his work.This is the first book to view Jarman's uniquely personal - and pleasurable - cinema through the analytical prism of 'queer'. Niall Richardson takes up queer theory and its debates, as well as the tension between theory and activism, to apply these issues to Jarman's cinema in critical readings of his films, with special attention given to "Caravaggio", "Edward II" and "Blue".

Reclaiming Afrikan: queer perspectives on sexual and gender identities

(6)7.041-055.34 REC

2014

"This publication is a collaboration and collection of art, photography, and critical essays interrogating the meanings and everyday practices of queer life in Africa today. In Reclaiming Afrikan, authors, activists, and artists from NIgeria, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya, and South Africa offer fresh perspectives on queer life; how gender and sexuality can be understood in Africa as ways of reclaiming identities in the continent. Africa is known to be harsh towards people with non-conforming genders and sexual identities. It is within this framework that Reclaiming Afrikan exists to respond to such violations and to offer alternative ways of thinking and being in the continent.

Viva records  1970 – 2000 Lesbian and gay latinos of Los Angeles

7.049.1 VIV

2013

VIVA, a non-profit artists’ coalition founded in 1987, promoted the creative and artistic talent of gay and lesbian Latinos and Latinas in Los Angeles. It worked closely with other gay and lesbian organizations, using arts-based projects to address cultural and sociopolitical issues that were of concern to its community. Its exhibitions, theatrical productions, writers’ workshops, and educational outreach programs brought national as well as area recognition to VIVA and its members.

We who feel differently

7 MOTT MOT

2011

We Who Feel Differently is a database documentary that addresses critical issues of contemporary queer culture. It features interviews with fifty queer academicians, activists, artists, radicals, researchers, and others in Colombia, Norway, South Korea and the United States about the histories and development of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Queer and Questioning (LGBTIQQ) politics. The project discusses the notions of sexual difference, equality, citizenship and democracy in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity. This Book outlines five thematic threads drawn from the interviews in the form of a narrative

Where we’re at

B-BRU-PAL Palace de Beaux arts, Brussels

2014

What do you see when you look at a black woman? Where we're at! Other voices on gender invites the readers to question their own gaze by confronting it to the work of African, Caribbean, and Pacific women artists at the forefront of a contemporary female imagery, focusing on identity, the body, gender and sexuality from intimate cultural and socio-political perspectives. The essays published in this catalogue challenge mainstream discourse on feminism and body politics by bringing in non-western cultural experiences extending to queer identity.

No Kissing

7 MYAT (ARTISTS’ BOOKS)

2016

(No Kissing) displays erotic classified ads of men looking for other men (m4m)posted on Craigslist.

The ads, illustrated with the imagined events that may ensue, range from fervid to frank and detail, and give instruction on ways which these men would like to best be used, abused, played with, loved, admired, worshipped.

In a different light

7.071-055.34 DIF

1995

In a different light documents a landmark exhibition at University Art Museum, exploring the resonances of gay, lesbian, and queer experiences in American culture. Instead of asking ‘what does lesbian or gay art look like?’ the curators ask ‘how are queer artists looking at the world?.’

No straight lines: four decades of queer comics / ed. Justin Hall.

741.52-055.34 HAL

2013

A collection of underground comics over the past forty years that feature gay men and lesbians and deal with  issues of importance to the gay and lesbian community, including stories by Alison Bechdel, Howard Cruse, Ralf Konig, and David Wonjnaraowicz.