QUEERING DIGITAL SPACE
SAN LDN is excited to invite you to an online Discuss & Exchange session with invited guest speakers. Open to everyone interested in the intersection between art & society.
WEDNESDAY 19TH AUGUST, 6PM
REGISTER FOR FREE ON EVENTBRITE!
How can we queer digital space? During lockdown, public spaces once reclaimed by LGBTQIA+ community have been inaccessible. How does this impact queer art activism rooted in performance and direct action? What does a digital Pride look like? How can we imagine drag under lockdown? Join us to reclaim a piece of this space in our virtual queer bar! Come for the drag, stay for virtual Pride initiatives and share your own queer social art lockdown experiences…
Guest Biographies
Claire Mead, Curator and Host
(she/her) is a freelance arts and heritage curator and educator. She works with museums to queer their collections and programming and produces videos and podcasts focusing on LGBTQIA+ history and arms & armour from queer-feminist perspectives. She also has a drag king alter ego, Eugène Delacroissant (director of all the museums, with 100% entitlement and 0% experience). Eugène museumsplains about queer feminist heritage and sexism in the cultural sector.
Twitter carmineclaire . Instagram carmineclaire
Toni-Dee Paul (she/they) Toni-Dee is an independent artist based in Manchester. Occasionally she is a writer, workshop leader, collaborator, and ‘thinker-in-the room’. Her current body of work, made with ‘infectious warmth’ (Exeunt) is a series of performances & installations made for cemeteries, refugee centers, kitchens, churches and theatres – exploring otherness around race, disability and queerness. Since 2015 she has been commissioned by Fuel Theatre for The New Theatre In Your Neighbourhood project, been a contributing story group writer for climate justice project Hello X, created performance as public intervention, and presented works in SICK Festival, Queer Migrant Takeover, Queerly Departed and Works Ahead. Currently, she’s working on ‘Doze’ a project exploring rest as resistance. Toni-Dee is associate artist and access assistant at Selina Thompson Ltd, and makes work for children and families as an associate of One Tenth Human. Toni sits on the board for international performance festival Transform. When she’s not making performance, she’s reading fan fiction, or video-calling her family.
Twitter @tonidee_p Instagram txnidee
Myla Corvidae (they/them) is a poet, actor and pioneering museums and heritage professional, as well as an illustrator for Gwyllion Magazine and games designer at Corvidae Games exploring and queering museum space digitally. They are the co-director of Queer Heritage Forum, a collective of heritage professionals on the LGBTQIA spectrum started under lockdown which launched its very first Digital Pride this year.
Hannah Ayres (she/her) is a PhD student in the department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. She looks at queer re/presentation in museums and investigates how queer individuals create, critique, and internalise these re/presentations. She is the convenor of Queer History Warwick, a group that offers accessible ways to learn about queer lives and history. She also is a member of the Queer Heritage Forum and helped put together podcasts and events for their first digital pride.
Twitter Miss_HVA
Hosted by Claire Mead
Coordinator: Daniela Liberati
Timetable:
17:45 Zoom open to registered participants
18:00 Greetings, guidelines and introductions
18:15 Speaker presentations and discussion (Live on YouTube*)
19:15 Discussions in breakout rooms
19:45 Closing
*Only the presentations will be broadcast, the Discuss & Exchange session takes place after the live ends