Marilyn liked to read and so should you
Finery wants your stories, poems, essays, text monsters and monster texts for our 7th issue. The theme this time around is "myth-making": interpret as you like, the broader & stranger the better! Though we always love a good straight forward myth, too.
Email up to ten pages as an .rtf attachment to birdsoflace@gmail.com by January 31st, 2010. We also like black and white drawings & songs, as this issue will come with a cd. Submissions accepted from self-identified women and queers of all genders.
check out excerpts from past issues here & here
Please re-post/pass along!
Showing posts with label queer artist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label queer artist. Show all posts
Submit to Finery already, wontcha?
Submit to Finery already, wontcha?
Marilyn liked to read and so should you
Finery wants your stories, poems, essays, text monsters and monster texts for our 7th issue. The theme this time around is "myth-making": interpret as you like, the broader & stranger the better! Though we always love a good straight forward myth, too.
Email up to ten pages as an .rtf attachment to birdsoflace@gmail.com by January 31st, 2010. We also like black and white drawings & songs, as this issue will come with a cd. Submissions accepted from self-identified women and queers of all genders.
check out excerpts from past issues here & here
Please re-post/pass along!
Submit to Finery already, wontcha?
Marilyn liked to read and so should you
Finery wants your stories, poems, essays, text monsters and monster texts for our 7th issue. The theme this time around is "myth-making": interpret as you like, the broader & stranger the better! Though we always love a good straight forward myth, too.
Email up to ten pages as an .rtf attachment to birdsoflace@gmail.com by January 31st, 2010. We also like black and white drawings & songs, as this issue will come with a cd. Submissions accepted from self-identified women and queers of all genders.
check out excerpts from past issues here & here
Please re-post/pass along!
Jody Jock
Jody Jock is a visual artist (photography, collage, crochet, film) from San Francisco whose short film I Promise You Heaven recently debuted at the queer film festival Mix NYC. He is one of the co-editors of Prayers for Children & has shown his photography in various galleries around SF. Below check out his video "Miss Mary Mack" & visit his website for more information.
Jody Jock
Jody Jock is a visual artist (photography, collage, crochet, film) from San Francisco whose short film I Promise You Heaven recently debuted at the queer film festival Mix NYC. He is one of the co-editors of Prayers for Children & has shown his photography in various galleries around SF. Below check out his video "Miss Mary Mack" & visit his website for more information.
Jody Jock
Jody Jock is a visual artist (photography, collage, crochet, film) from San Francisco whose short film I Promise You Heaven recently debuted at the queer film festival Mix NYC. He is one of the co-editors of Prayers for Children & has shown his photography in various galleries around SF. Below check out his video "Miss Mary Mack" & visit his website for more information.
I Don't Know a Single Company That is Experimental Enough for Me
Ambiguous gender, crude 3D animation, face paint, very high voices, very low voices, the internet, the grossness and awesomeness of pop culture, wigs, politics, psychedelia, trash and hilarity are all sped up and slowed down to inhabit a simultaneously overwhelming and awe inspiring universe created by Ryan Trecartin.
If you aren't familiar with the video/art star Ryan Trecartin, he is a 28 year old artist currently working out of Philadelphia and blowing minds all over the world. His work was discovered in 2005 on Friendster by Sue de Beer and he's been a critical success and prolific artist ever since.
His videos are most often collaborative and usually feature a selection of his artist friends and cohorts (such as Telfar Clemens, and a cameo from my friend and amazing artist Leilah Weinraub) dressed and painted to portray the characters who navigate a world, that i would imagine, is like living IN the internet.
Trecartin is awesome in so many ways, but one of the best things about him is that his work is very accessible on the internet. It's not put away in a museum somewhere (although he has been in the Whitney as part of the 2006 Bienniel, the Guggenheim, and recently, the New Museum...as well as tons of gallery shows and film festivals) all you have to do to watch Trecartin's work is log onto YouTube or Vimeo. It's right there. Free and easy.
Anyways, you should really check out Ryan Trecartin. As an introduction, or in case you haven't seen the new stuff, here are two of his latest works. (and some older stuff after the cut)
More watch, less talk.
Sibling Topics (section a) from Ryan Trecartin on Vimeo.
K-CoreaINC.K (section a) from Ryan Trecartin on Vimeo.
I Don't Know a Single Company That is Experimental Enough for Me
Ambiguous gender, crude 3D animation, face paint, very high voices, very low voices, the internet, the grossness and awesomeness of pop culture, wigs, politics, psychedelia, trash and hilarity are all sped up and slowed down to inhabit a simultaneously overwhelming and awe inspiring universe created by Ryan Trecartin.
If you aren't familiar with the video/art star Ryan Trecartin, he is a 28 year old artist currently working out of Philadelphia and blowing minds all over the world. His work was discovered in 2005 on Friendster by Sue de Beer and he's been a critical success and prolific artist ever since.
His videos are most often collaborative and usually feature a selection of his artist friends and cohorts (such as Telfar Clemens, and a cameo from my friend and amazing artist Leilah Weinraub) dressed and painted to portray the characters who navigate a world, that i would imagine, is like living IN the internet.
Trecartin is awesome in so many ways, but one of the best things about him is that his work is very accessible on the internet. It's not put away in a museum somewhere (although he has been in the Whitney as part of the 2006 Bienniel, the Guggenheim, and recently, the New Museum...as well as tons of gallery shows and film festivals) all you have to do to watch Trecartin's work is log onto YouTube or Vimeo. It's right there. Free and easy.
Anyways, you should really check out Ryan Trecartin. As an introduction, or in case you haven't seen the new stuff, here are two of his latest works. (and some older stuff after the cut)
More watch, less talk.
Sibling Topics (section a) from Ryan Trecartin on Vimeo.
K-CoreaINC.K (section a) from Ryan Trecartin on Vimeo.
I Don't Know a Single Company That is Experimental Enough for Me
Ambiguous gender, crude 3D animation, face paint, very high voices, very low voices, the internet, the grossness and awesomeness of pop culture, wigs, politics, psychedelia, trash and hilarity are all sped up and slowed down to inhabit a simultaneously overwhelming and awe inspiring universe created by Ryan Trecartin.
If you aren't familiar with the video/art star Ryan Trecartin, he is a 28 year old artist currently working out of Philadelphia and blowing minds all over the world. His work was discovered in 2005 on Friendster by Sue de Beer and he's been a critical success and prolific artist ever since.
His videos are most often collaborative and usually feature a selection of his artist friends and cohorts (such as Telfar Clemens, and a cameo from my friend and amazing artist Leilah Weinraub) dressed and painted to portray the characters who navigate a world, that i would imagine, is like living IN the internet.
Trecartin is awesome in so many ways, but one of the best things about him is that his work is very accessible on the internet. It's not put away in a museum somewhere (although he has been in the Whitney as part of the 2006 Bienniel, the Guggenheim, and recently, the New Museum...as well as tons of gallery shows and film festivals) all you have to do to watch Trecartin's work is log onto YouTube or Vimeo. It's right there. Free and easy.
Anyways, you should really check out Ryan Trecartin. As an introduction, or in case you haven't seen the new stuff, here are two of his latest works. (and some older stuff after the cut)
More watch, less talk.
Sibling Topics (section a) from Ryan Trecartin on Vimeo.
K-CoreaINC.K (section a) from Ryan Trecartin on Vimeo.
Lost Missing
Lost Missing is the latest project from author, activist, and artist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, who you may know as the editor of the Queer anthology "That's Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation" (or from her novels, or work with Gay Shame SF, or a ton of other awesome totally queer projects).
Beginning around the end of January, Sycamore began posting images and writings around San Francisco that are meant to publicly express the personal grief of losing friends. Mattilda explains the project best: "This project is a public expression of grief in order to feel hopeful again -- it’s about that random poster you see and you don’t know what it means but your eyes get bright all the sudden."
Most of us have probably dealt with the feelings associated with losing a friendship and Lost Missing offers us a creative way of dealing with that. All 24 images created thus far are available for download on Mattilda's blog and you are invited to post them anywhere and everywhere. So far, Lost Missing images have been seen in Portland (OR), Berlin, Houston, DC, and a bunch of other places. If you post or see a Lost Missing poster in your town take a photo and send it to Mattilda for a potential future project using the Lost Missing documentation. 
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Nick Cave at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
No, not that Nick Cave.
Nick Cave, the Chicago based artist and professor (SAIC), has 60 of his "Soundsuits" currently on exhibition in a show entitled "Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth" at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
The Soundsuits (which are titled as such because they are designed to create sounds when the wearer moves) combine found objects, thrift store finds, human hair, sequins, flowers, beads, twigs and countless other handmade elements to create couture installations that aim to transcend notions of sexuality, race, and class while exploring cultural and ritualistic concepts.
In addition to exhibiting the Soundsuits, Cave has collaborated with choreographer Ronald K. Brown to create a performance fusing the Soundsuits with movement. The collaboration will be performed May 28, 30, and 31 and is free with gallery admission.
"I believe that the familiar must move towards the fantastic. I want to evoke feelings that are unnamed, that aren’t realized except in dreams."-Nick Cave
"I believe that the familiar must move towards the fantastic. I want to evoke feelings that are unnamed, that aren’t realized except in dreams."-Nick Cave
If you are there, please go see this and tell us how it was!
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