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The Domestic Queens Project:
EXHIBITION, SYMPOSIUM, and PUBLICATION LAUNCH
http://domesticqueens.tumblr.com/
Domestic Queens
Jim Verburg | Jason Hendrickson | Zachari Logan | Ryan Conrad,
Liam Michaud and REB (Richard E. Bump) | curated by Evergon
York Corridor Vitrines
27 x Doug
Larry Glawson, curated by J.J. Kegan McFadden
Main Gallery/Black Box
Exposition | Exhibition
Du 28 fevrier au 25 mars 2011
February 28 to March 25, 2011
Symposium
Saturday, March 5 (1 to 5 p.m.) followed by
Vernissage and Publication Launch
Saturday, March 5 (5 to 7 p.m.)
Samedi, 5 mars, de 17 h à 19 h
The bilingual Publication includes texts from Mark Clintberg, J.J.
Kegan McFadden, Evergon, and was designed by Jim Veburg
The Domestic Queens Project: Exhibition
What potential do the domicile and its associated activities have
when discussed, debated and represented by artists?
If queer male sexuality is pejoratively positioned by some as restrained
by effete sensitivity and care, the exhibitions
Domestic Queens and 27 x Doug reverse this evaluation and argue
that the tender and intimate performances that the home can offer
to us are worth pursuing as legitimate forms of knowledge.
In ancient Greece the domestic sphere, or oikos, was positioned
as a state within a state, a site ruled by the individual citizen.
This notion is powerfully at work today in the contemporary western
understanding that citizens are authorities in their own homes,
and that the home is private and therefore distinct from the surrounding
polis, or city. Unlike the cosmopolitan citizen – who is foremost
a citizen of the world – the artworks in this exhibition position
their makers first as citizens of their own oikos.
The domestic is one immediate ground for the realization of the
self through the transformation of surroundings through ornament,
certainly. But the actions and habits performed daily in the home
profoundly affect the self as well. Additionally, by nurturing
domestic habits on an individual level, each person has the capacity
to be cosmopolitan by – as the well-known expression goes – making
the personal the political. These two exhibitions demonstrate how
that familiar and prosaic expression can be realized meaningfully
and practically. The artworks included in these two shows reveal
the nature of the constructed divide between public and private,
revealing that the way we behave and what we perform at home has
great importance in our stakes as citizens.
(Excerpted from the catalogue text by Mark Clintberg)
Domestic Queens: Symposium
Saturday, March 5, 2011 from 1 to 5 p.m., followed by the vernissage
at 5 to 7 p.m.
The symposium will consist of equal presentations from the exhibiting
artists: Larry Glawson, (Manitoba), Jim Verburg (Toronto), Zachari
Logan (Saskatchewan) and Jason Hendrickson (Montréal/Pittsburg),
and culminate in a round table discussion facilitated by curator,
J.J. Keegan McFadden (Manitoba). Joining the table will be curator/artist,
Evergon and invited respondent, Eduardo Ralikas (MTL/France).
The issues presented within the project Domestic Queens cross over
to myriad disciplines as ideas of representation and the construction
of self through the elaboration of the home are central to western
human experience. While the project includes only male artists,
feminism and post-colonial discourse have shown us that there are
times when specificity is required – for not all experiences are
shared, and notions of universality are impoverished at best.
Lieu | Where
Galerie FOFA Gallery
1515 Ste. Catherine Street W., EV 1-715
Montréal, Québec (métro Guy-Concordia)
Heures d’ouverture | Gallery Hours:
Du lundi au vendredi, de 11 h à 19 h
Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Information
http://fofagallery.concordia.ca ou 514 848-2424, poste 7962
Coût | Cost
Entrée libre. Ouvert à tous.
Free admission. Everyone welcome.
THE FOFA Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of the ARRE
Program (Aid to Research Related Events, Publication, Exhibition
and Dissemination Activities Program) From the office of the VICE-PRESIDENT,
RESEARCH & GRADUATE STUDIES and the Faculty of Fine Arts as well as the generous participation
of the artists.
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Symposium: Saturday March 5 1:00 pm – 5
Vernissage: Saturday March 5, 5 à 7
The Domestic Queens project is comprised of two disparate though intersecting
exhibitions and a symposium. The exhibition is accompanied by a framing text by Mark Clintberg
The first exhibition; 27 x Doug, by Manitoba Artist Larry Glawson, and curated by JJ
Keegan McFadden, consists of 27 images taken over as many years and mirrors an
historical exhibition called 27 x Sonia. The original images of Sonia Eckhardt-Grammate
produced by her long term partner Walter Grammate were considered a romantic
engagement and connective study, as evidence of the here-to-fore assumed
heteronormative practice of committed long term relationships. The second exhibition:
Domestic Queens, curated by Evergon, features 4 younger artists and was originally
proposed under the title “queers in art” when it was acknowledged that they were only
presenting male artists. This rub pointed to just one of the complexities implicit in
representation and amplifies a central theme of relational power dynamics. Glawson
addresses directly his discomfort with labeling strategies,
“In trying to find an alternative to titling or contextualizing images in a manner
that uses
labels to identify the subject I began the home bodies project… an ongoing , photo-
based, exploration concerned with constructing visual representations of the personal
domestic world”.
By limiting subject participation to that of his very own connectivity, partner + pets +
home, Glawson attempts to minimize the problematics of imaging the other. This
strategy is echoed by the younger artists in Domestic Queens that image either
themselves excessively, or their partners and the locales that inform them.
The connection between identity and architecture is perhaps most clearly played out
within the home - a crucial site for both normalising and contesting acceptable modes of
sexual identity. It is for this reason that the working title of Domestic Queens was
chosen.
Perhaps project writer Mark Clintberg has framed it best in his general thematic of
practice, - he explores how private needs and engagements deserve demonstration in
public space, and how public space might invade the private sphere in a meaningful
way.
DOMESTIC QUEENS : SYMPOSIUM
SPECIAL EVENT
Saturday March 5th 1- 5 followed by the vernissage 5 à 7
The symposium will consist in equal parts presentations from the exhibiting artists. Larry
Glawson, (Manitoba), Jim Verburg, (Toronto), Zachari Logan (Saskatchewan) and Jason
Hendrickson (Montréal/Pittsburg), Ryan Conrad (Mtl) and culminate in a round table disussion
facilitated by curator, JJ Keegan McFadden, (Manitoba) artist/curator . Added to the table will be
curator/artist, Evergon and invited respondant, Edward Ralikas (MTL/France).
The issues presented within the project Domestic Queens cross over to myriad
disciplines as ideas of representation and the construction of self through the
elaboration of the home are central to western human experience. While the project
includes only male artists, feminism and post-colonial discourse have shown us that
there are times when specificity is required – for not all experiences are shared, and
notions of universality are impoverished at best.
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