[-empyre-] New on -empyre- July 2009: "Queer Relational"

[Christina McPhee]

Please join us in July 2009 on -empyre- soft-skinned space....


"Queer Relational"

with -empyre-'s special  guests  Micha Cardenas (US),  Felipe Zuniga  
(MX/US), Emily Roysdon (US/SE), Marc Léger (CA), Virginia Solomon (US/ 
CA), Tara Mateik (US), Amy Wiley (US), and Robert Summers (US).


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moderated by Christina McPhee (US)


How might queer theory and practices  inflect/torture/distort or  
otherwise improve 'relational aesthetics'-  ? Is  the relational  
aesthetics meme often complicit, if accidentally,  with  
heteronormativity?  How does queer practice and theory
politically develop the  space of the democratic 'violence of  
participation"?   A paranoid concern launches our topic--  may cliches  
of relationality mitiigate against excess, ephemera,  and the variable  
and uncontrollable power of the  engaged artist/writer?
Asking what is a queer space of participation, the list itself enacts  
its own making  for an intersubjective 'queer' text.   A hypertext and  
linear edit of the conversation will be published in 2010 and  
presented in the Queer Caucus for Art panel at College Art  
Association, Chicago 2010.


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----------------------->Micha Cárdenas / dj lotu5 / Azdel Slade is a  
transgender artist, theorist and trouble maker. She is an Artist/ 
Researcher at the Experimental Game Lab at CRCA and at Calit2  
University of California-San Diego. Her interests include the  
interplay of technology, gender, sex and biopolitics. She blogs at  
TechnoTrannySlut.com. Micha holds an MFA from the University of  
California San Diego, an MA in Media and Communications with  
distinction from the European Graduate School and a Bachelor's degree  
in Computer Science from Florida International University. http://bang.calit2.net/tts/

------------------->Felipe Zuñiga is a visual artist, independent art  
promoter, and art facilitator. Zuñiga lives and works between Tijuana,  
Mexico, and San Diego, U.S.A. He is part of the artist-run space, Lui  
Velazquez Space,  which organizes exhibitions, art residencies, and  
cultural events in the city of Tijuana. He obtained an M.F.A. degree  
in Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego and a  
bachelor in visual arts for the UNAM, in Mexico City. http://www.luivelazquez.com/old_site/pr/lasse/index.html

------------------>Emily Roysdon is a New York and Stockholm based  
interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her work is invested in language,  
memory, collectivity and the processes of history and she uses video,  
photography, text, and performance to that aim. She is editor and co- 
founder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective, LTTR.  
Roysdon's work has been shown at Participant, Inc. (NY); Generali  
Foundation (Vienna); New Museum (NY); Power Plant (Toronto); and  
Studio Voltaire (London). Her videos have been screened at Whitechapel  
Gallery (London); Arsenal: Institut fur Film and Videokunst (Berlin);  
The Kitchen (NY); and at the International Short Film Festival  
Oberhausen. Her writings have been published in numerous books and  
magazines, including Cabinet Magazine, the Journal of Aesthetics and  
Protest, and Women & Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory.  
Roysdon completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2001  
and an Interdisciplinary MFA at UCLA in 2006. For six months in 2008  
she was a resident at the International Artists Studio Program in  
Sweden (IASPIS). She is a recipient of a 2008 Art Matters grant and  
2009 Franklin Furnace grant. She is currently curating an exhibition  
on 'ecstatic resistance' at Grand Arts. http://www.emilyroysdon.com/

-------------------->Marc James Léger is an artist, writer and  
educator living in Montreal, Canada.  He has published essays on  
critical cultural practices in Afterimage, Parachute, Art Journal, C  
Magazine, Etc, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and the Canadian  
Journal of Film Studies.  An essay on the cultural theories of Henri  
Lefebvre was published in Andrew Hemingway, ed. Marxism and the  
History of Art (Pluto Press, 2006).  He is editor of Bruce Barber's  
collected essays and interviews, Performance, [Performance] and  
Performers, published in 2007 by YYZBOOKS, as well as the forthcoming  
Spleen: Institutions of Contemporary Art Practice, a collection of  
essays on political dissidence in the context of the neoliberalization  
of cultural institutions. http://www.joaap.org/6/another/leger.html


----------------------->Virginia Solomon is an art historian and  
critic completing a doctorate at the University of Southern  
California, specializing in modern and contemporary art, culture and  
politics. Her dissertation considers the work of Canadian artist group  
General Idea as an archive of queer avant-garde art practices in the  
context of an evolving conversation concerning the relationship  
between politics and subjectivity. Other interests include feminist  
theory, cultural studies and visual studies. Virginia was a Helena  
Rubensteinfellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program for the  
2007/2008 academic year and is a 2009/2010 Canadian art research  
fellow at the National Gallery of Canada. She has published and given  
public talks on queer and feminist art and cultural politics, and was  
a co-curator of the recently closed Tainted Love, a group show that  
considers love as a political tactic in art after 1987.  http://www.lamama.org/ 
. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02EEDF173CF93AA25755C0A96F9C8B63


----------------------->Tara Mateik is an artist and educator living  
in New York City. In his videos and performances he casts himself as  
theoretical and cultural transvestites from pop music, competitive  
sport, and weird science. In 2002 he founded The Society of Biological  
Insurgents (SBI), an embryonic cell organization that wages strategic  
operations to overthrow institutions of compulsory gender. Mateik’s  
work has been exhibited at venues that include The Solomon R.  
Guggenheim Museum, The Project,  and Reena Spaulings Fine Art in New  
York, LACE in Los Angeles, British Film Institute in London, England,  
Oberhausen Film Festival in Oberhausen, Germany, and Museu de Arte  
Moderna in São Paulo, Brazil. Mateik’s writing and work has been  
published in Felix: A Journal of Media Arts and Culture, LTTR, a queer  
feminist art journal, North Drive Press #2, and Art Fancy. His awards  
include a three-year fellowship at the Rensselaer Polytechnic  
Institute, a grant from the Creative Capital Foundation in film/ 
video,  an Electronic and Film Art Grant from the Experimental  
Television Center, and a BCAT/BRIC Rotunda Gallery Video Residency. In  
addition to his own work he has collaborated with collectives and  
artists including Paper Tiger Television video collective to produce  
short videos that demystify and democratize the media. In 2000 he co- 
founded Dykes Can Dance with Emily Roysdon and JD Samson. From  
2004-2009 he brought contemporary art to New York City's public school  
children managing over a dozen collaborations between teaching artists  
and public school teachers for the Education Department at Art in  
General.  http://www.taramateik.com/

-------------------------->Amy Wiley is a scholar of performance  
theory and rhetoric. Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, U. C. Davis,  
2001.  Lecturer, Cal Poly State University, Department of English.   
Primary Fields: Late 20th Century Literature of the Americas  
(American, Canadian—Francophone and Anglophone—and Spanish American);  
Postmodernism; postcolonialism; applications of performance theory to  
textual analysis; theories of state/domestic terrorism, separatism,  
violence, and identity formation. Co-author, with Christina McPhee,  
"Bare Life and the Traumatic Landscape" (Documenta 12 Magazine  
Project,  2007).  http://magazines.documenta.de/frontend/article.php?IdLanguage=1&NrArticle=1740


----------------------->Robert Summers is  a lecturer in art history  
and visual culture at Otis College of Art, Los Angeles.  He is a board  
member of Telic Arts Exchange and The Public School.  He has published  
papers in art and academic magazines and journals, and has published  
essays in anthologies, such as "Vaginal Davis _Does_ Art History" in  
_Jonathan Harris's Dead History, Live Art_ (University of Chicago  
Press).  He has also presented papers and has chaired panels both  
nationally and internationally -- the latest panel being  
"Intersectional Queer Visualities" at the annual Association of Art  
Historians (AAH) conference in the UK. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=toc&bookkey=168958


------------------------->California-based visual and media artist  
Christina McPhee is an artist and filmmaker working with landscape,  
memory and environmental/eco-spatial practice.  Her current project  
Tesserae of Venus opens in October 2009 at Silverman Gallery San  
Francisco. http://www.silverman-gallery.com/artist/view/1615.  A clip  
from her environmental site study on Ballona Wetlands is new on  
Version.org , curated by Caleb Waldorf and Jordan Crandall (http://version.org/videos/show/1 
) ,  Her "La Conchita mon amour" on environmental devastation and  
shrine building showed at Sara Tecchia New York in 2006 and is  
featured Sharon Lin Tay's forthcoming "Women on the Edge: Twelve  
Political Film Practices," Palgrave/Macmillan 2009 https://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=305775 
  .  She was the lead editor for -empyre-'s contributions in the  
Documenta 12 Magazine Project in 2007 http://magazines.documenta.de/frontend/index.php?IdMagazine=59 
   New 2009 projects include Recipe [evacuee cake] /Recette- 
Gâteaux_à_évacués  for VIDEOFORMES 09 Clermont Ferrand, France  http://www.vimeo.com/5262390 
  , and PLAZAVILLE with GH Hovagimyan, a Turbulence.org variable  
cinema commission which showed at Pace Digital Gallery NYC and Art  
Cologne (screenings at Open Space / Vernissage.TV) http://turbulence.org/Works/plazaville/ 
  ,  She contributed drawing for  the "Space of Europe" drawing  
exhibition within 'VIolence of Participation' , a book and  
participatory exhibition project edited and curated by Markus Miessen  
for the Lyon Biennial, 2007 http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1205&bookId=100&l=en 
.  Her solo exhibition "Carrizo Parkfield Diaries,'" on seismic memory  
linking post-traumatic stress syndrome visualization with earthquake  
geomorphology, was shown at the American University Museum/Katzen Arts  
Center, Washington DC in 2007 and in video installation at Bildmuseet  
Umea, Sweden in 2006.  http://christinamcphee.net


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