Commissioned by the Queer Cultural Center as part of the National Arts Queer Festival, 2016.
Exhibit Opens: Thursday, June 9, 7pm.
Duration: June 9-July 29.
FREE- Donation based.
June 9th will be the opening night for this curated multimedia exhibit, Flexible Horizons: The Body in Transit, featuring trans artists whose work explores topics of the nonbinary, genderqueer, and intersectionality. DISCIPLINE/S Photography, Video, Print, sculpture, Installation.
From installation work focusing on...
Commissioned by the Queer Cultural Center as part of the National Arts Queer Festival, 2016.
Exhibit Opens: Thursday, June 9, 7pm.
Duration: June 9-July 29.
FREE- Donation based.
June 9th will be the opening night for this curated multimedia exhibit, Flexible Horizons: The Body in Transit, featuring trans artists whose work explores topics of the nonbinary, genderqueer, and intersectionality. DISCIPLINE/S Photography, Video, Print, sculpture, Installation.
From installation work focusing on the prison industrial complex, to gender queer documentary portraits, experimental film, trans march 2015 short doc video, conceptual painting and autobiographical photography, this exhibit will bring together the diversity of voices of trans and gender non conforming people, or simply non-conforming people, living in the Bay Area.
Visual artwork on display by: Taryn Lee Crenshaw, Keith Hature, Joseph Liatela, Florencia Manovil, Mayson Ivy / Mayson It, Julia Robertson.
The opening will be followed by Performance and Open Mic event from 8-9pm.
Performers include:
Video screening, 10 minute duration: Trans Etherium is a transcendent performance film featuring the resilience of a divine monster through its tormented birth and overcoming bondage from a world not made for its design.
MicahTron is an ORIGINAL lesbian Hip-Hop artist who has opened for artists such as Lil Kim, The Internet, Le1f, GirlTalk and many more. Representing the young and talented independent female artist, but most importantly, the queer!!!!
Taijhet Nyobi, Oakland-based poet who uses art to connect across the African diaspora.
Irene Tu, Stand up comic. Chicagoan living in the Bay Area.
Elliott Geneste de Besme has been arousing crowds since 2000 with his signature blend of spoken-word poetry and improvised song. He has shared tickets with Athens Boys Choir, Stainless Steele (formerly of Diggable Planets).
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FLEXIBLE HORIZONS: The Body in Transit, is a curated group show that defines the end of “normal.” This exhibit explores the intersection of class, race and gender within the body-individual-community—through portraits, performance, experimental films, and discussion. What does it mean to live in the slash of a binary; male/female, gay/straight? Is the non-binary an identity or a way of life? What is 'being' queer and is queer the nonbinary? We will explore these questions and more through multimedia work, spoken word, poetry and performance by local queer artists.
Visual Artists Bio's:
Taryn Lee Crenshaw is a documentarian, educator, and public speaker. Born and raised in San Jose, California, she received a Master of Arts degree in Social Documentation from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Women’s Studies with a concentration in Visual Documentation from Spelman College. Taryn sees documentary film and photography as vehicles for exploration, analysis, and celebration. Primarily focusing on concepts of intersectionality, Taryn's work creatively implements oral history narratives and invokes conversation around social constructs.
Keith Hature grew up in Las Vegas, NV and currently lives and works in Oakland, CA. They are an artist who makes paintings queering the banalities of everyday life. Keith attended the Yale University School of Art Norfolk summer residence program in 2015.
Joseph Liatela makes work about the ways in which inaccurate portrayals of transgender people contribute to their erasure within the frameworks of collective memory, history, intergenerational connection, and the self. His practice explores themes such as past lives, saying goodbye, the pain of becoming other, divine monstrosity, trans intergenerational legacy, metamorphosis, and trans bodies as physical sites of resistance. Through the mediums of sound, printmaking, installation, and video performance, they draw from their experiences in trans, queer, and/or sex worker and BDSM communities to make work that speaks to what it (might) mean to feel home.
Florencia Manovil is a feminist filmmaker passionate about independent film, social justice, environmentalism, and queer identities.
Mayson Ivy / Mayson It
dyke. radical. creator. mischief maker.
element bender. fretfully androgynous. critical ornament. sexual disobedient.
dopeless hope feen. dirty english literati. scandalized performer. body unknown.
in the name of art.
Julia Robertson is an artist who makes documentary and experimental film based installations. She earned her MFA at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. with a focus in Social Practice.