Relations. 25 years of the lesbian group ŠKUC-LL, Ljubljana http://grzinic-smid.si/?p=276 (watch documentary) Authors: Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid, Zvonka T Simčič Length: 84 min 02 sec, 2012, color, sound Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian, with English subtitles Produced by Zavod CCC, Ljubljana. This documentary video film is about the 25 anniversary of the lesbian group ŠKUC-LL (1987-2012) and about the lesbian […]
The video performance developed and performed by Marissa Lôbo in collaboration with Nataša Mackuljak, Alessandra do Santos Silva, Xhejlane Rexhepi and Noemi Auer is an intervention on Colonial desire and otherness, sexuality, racialized bodies, contra esthetic, migrant-precarious bodies, sex work, society double moral, and the regime of Western bodies politics. Marissa Lôbo is a migrant black activist and […]
Performance on February 14th 2011, Cologne, Germany, 12:30 p.m. “Anticapitalism of love” with Amy Rush. Sepulveda and Rush are having sex at the main entrance of Pascha”, the biggest brothel in Cologne, intervening the „power architecture“, and the hyper-heteronormativity they represent. Katia Sepulveda’s work focuses on questions related to sex, gender and sexuality, resistance to […]
Sergio Zevallos (Grupo Chaclacayo), with the collaboration of Frido Martin, from the series “Rosa Cordis”, 1986 19 nov. 2012 al 20 nov. 2012 Auditori MACBA Auditorio MACBA. Entrada gratuita. Aforo limitado. Con traducción simultanea. Proyección por video streaming del seminario Seminario PEI Abierto Dirigido por Beatriz Preciado con la participación de Aimar Arriola, Alex Brahim, […]
It’s a hot August night in San Francisco in 1966. Compton’s Cafeteria, in the seedy Tenderloin district, is hopping with its usual assortment of transgender people, young street hustlers, and down-and-out regulars. The management, annoyed by the noisy crowd at one table, calls the police. When a surly cop, accustomed to manhandling Compton’s clientele, attempts […]
2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde’s passing, the acclaimed Black feminist lesbian poet and activist. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Lorde’s incisive writings and speeches defined and inspired the women of color, feminist and LGBT social justice movements in the United States. AUDRE LORDE – THE BERLIN YEARS 1984 TO 1992 explores a […]
A highly personal take on the challenges facing Black lesbians in South Africa today emerges through the life, work, friends and associates of ‘visual activist’ and internationally celebrated photographer, Zanele Muholi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea-dk1KPi28 Imposed under the British colonial rule in 1860, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code criminalized any sexual acts between consenting adults of the same sex, stigmatizing them as “against the order of nature”. On 2nd July 2009 the Delhi High Court passed a landmark judgment repealing this clause, thus fulfilling the most basic […]
Shu Lea Cheang is best known for her 2000 cult smash I.K.U. in which sensual cyborgs fuck for information and pleasure. The film, heavily influenced by Blade Runner, is perhaps the first cyperpunk movie to radically explore the possibilities of cybernetic sexualities. The pioneer in the field of media art embraced internet and hacking culture early on, recognizing both its capacity to enslave as well as liberate, mixing that with queer and sexually explicit imagery bringing something new to the cultural landscape. Cheang describes herself as both a “cyberhomesteader” and a “high-tech aborigine” hinting at meta-levels of not only her own life, but the worlds of her films.
“In August 2000 I started “Looking for a Husband with EU Passport” project: www.cac.org.mk/capital/ostojic. After publishing an ad with this title, I exchanged over 500 letters with numerous applicants from around the world. After a correspondence of six months with a German man Klemens G. I arranged our first meeting as a public performance in […]
En este ensayo documental, Villaplana aborda la problemática de la “masculinidad de mujer”, contraponiendo dos experiencias: por una parte una entrevista a Marco, transexual de mujer a hombre que nos narra en primera persona su operación de cambio de sexo y cómo ha afectado a su vida; y por otra, la acción dragking de la […]
– Retrato documental de Moisés, en transformación desde su anterior identidad como Ana. Una búsqueda de modelo referencial que le integre sensiblemente a través de su voz y las opiniones de sus compañeros. El individuo y su identidad particular autogenerada es la razón del documental “El camino de Moisés”. Una investigación a cerca del transgénero […]