All women, trans* and intersexuals are welcome at Bildwechsel. Queer and gay men, who are supportive of women's/feminist/queer communities are also welcome.
'I love Bildwechsel' decided to use the term women+ to acknowledge Bildwechsel’s history as a women’s project on the one hand and its inclusiveness towards trans*, intersexuals and queer men on the other. read more »
is an e-zine created by members of Bildwechsel and the contributing artists. Our aim is to provide a platform for queer feminist artists working in various media.
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Bildwechsel, Gallery Broll, les Reines Prochaines and the performance group Evi, Nic and C - are staging a fabulous and diverse event in benefit of bildwechsel - an evening full of sugar and spice at the Lido in Berlin.
venue: Lido, Cuvrystraße 7, Berlin, U-Bahn Schlesisches Tor
date: February 7th, 2010
entrance: 7pm
beginning: 8pm
Coral Short presents a program of Canada’s finest queer video makers. This bill is sweetened by a few creative maple chasers from other countries such as Textaqueen and Axon Dluxe. We have tapped the maple trees from Vancouver to Toronto to Montreal but also included expat beavers from Berlin, Portland, and New York. These innovative cougars and bears cover topics from from colonialism to gingivitis, gaybombs to witch raves.
nikki forrest (montreal) SCHOOL COLOURS FROM MEMORY 3.30 min
coral short (montreal/nyc) QUEENS 3.55 min
coco riot (montreal) CUT 2.20 GENDER POO 1.30 min
axon dluxe (new york city) GAYBOMB 4.10 min
clark nikolai (vancouver) GALACTIC DOCKING COMPANY 2.49 min
leah finkel / julie saragosa (toronto/berlin) SUPORNATURAL 4 min
helen reed (portland) WITCHRAVE 3.10 min
intermission
vincent chevalier (montreal) FULL DISCLOSURE 9 min
hannah jickling (portland) KNEE PORN
morgan sea (montreal) PROJECT POLARITY 4.35 min
maya suess /sepideh (new york city/ vancouver) TANTRUM PROJECT 5.21min
anna helme featuring textaqueen (melbourne) M.C.G.F.C. 4.21 min
michael v smith (vancouver) INVITATION 5.4 min
flannypack (montreal) LETS CELEBRATE REAL HEROES 6.15 min
GLASGOW centre for contemporary art, bildwechsel glasgow (7pm, Friday, January 15 2010)
BERLIN silver future, enazubert (Sunday, January 24 2010)
HAMBURG villa magdalena k ∙ bernstorffstr. 160 a, bildwechsel (8pm, Friday, January 29 2010)
LONDON vauxhall tavern, club wotever (Tuesday, February 2 2010)
The Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Hamburg and Bildwechsel present: Workshop by Elliat Graney-Saucke, filmmaker of ‘Travel Queeries’ on queer media activism in Hamburg. The workshop is in English language.
Registration is necessary by email until the 14th of December.
The number of participants is limited to 20 people.
What is ‘Queer Media’ and what is ‘Media Activism’? In many queer political scenes there are sometimes limited ways in which people feel they can express political activism when in fact there are many different mediums that can be used and ways of approaching politics and being an activist. A part of why queer media is important to look at is because there are so many ways in which we do not see ourselves as queer people reflected in the media around us, and the fact of making our own media, creating new and empowered images/reflections of ourselves and having control over how we are shown in media are forms of activism and self empowerment. This Queer Media Activism workshop is about creating a conversation looking at political communities and media arts, showing the connections and wide range of possibilities in which people can be expressive and engage in meaningful queer media as a form of activism.
Elliat Graney-Saucke will show her film ‘Travel Queeries - a documentary about the radical queer scene in Europe’ and scenes from her new movie ‘Boys on the Inside’, a film about ‘boy’ Identity in US American womens prisons.
venue: Butt Club Hafenstraße 126, Hamburg
time: 4pm
at sh[out]: LGBTI Contemporary Art and Human Rights
Gallery Two, GoMA
16th November 2009 to 13th December 2009
16’, 2004 Video DV
The video deals with making art out of the immediate and close at hand, as home sweet home can serve as fireworks for perception, as hideaway for desire, love and sex and the backyard garden for everything utopian and ideal. The authors themselves give a tour through the image events and ask themselves: Where are we coming from? Where are we going? And. What are we doing here?
Artistic Statement: We work in the media of video, installation (video, sound, light, photography), performance and music. The various fields of these different media and themes influence and interact with each other. We work as a pair, alone, in changing formations and with Les Reines Prochaines. We are inspired by the physical and philosophical, the everyday, the mythological, the absurd, as well as cultural history.
Websites: Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick mathiszwick.ch; Les Reines Prochaines reinesprochaines.ch
Slovakia, 2’11”, 2002
UK, 3mins, 1999
“Introducing Travis T. An honest and revealing look at the creation of a Drag ‘King’. Filmed in one room and on a minimal budget, we are shown a candid portrait of one woman’s journey towards manhood.” 45th Cork Film Festival programme
1′40″, DV, 2000, Canada
Original music, voice-over and soundtrack: Nikki Forrest Original format: Mini DV / NTSC
My Heart The Rock Star is a short experimental video about teenage identification with rock icon (Patti Smith.) Identification in this case is seen as a form of resistance to social constraints and the space of radical openness represented by the female Rock Star offers multiple lines of flight for the imagination of the young fan. Produced as part of the “My Heart…” collaborative series by Nikki Forrest, Nelson Henricks and Annie Martin. The artists wish to thank “The Canada Council for The Arts” and “The Conseil des art et des lettres du Quebec” for their support.
7 minutes, black and white / stereo sound / 1995
A series of dreamlike images evoke the shifting, permeable line between public and private space. Queer identity continuously disintegrates and reconfigures against the background noise of homophobia. The images move from the inner space of dreams through intimate domestic scenes, out onto the public spaces of subway stations and street corners and finally to the city skyline seen from across a body of water.
single-channel-video, 1′46”, 2001, Switzerland
A music-clip and a grubby homevideo. There is a minimal setting: a chair in a corner of an appartment, an androgynous outfit and a cd-player. An uncombed protagonist figures a sexy popstar and sings along the song of Prince. In a slightly acclerated mode the person lets herself go into a self-ironic teenage-phantasy. (probably an anticipation of a youtube-fantasy)
7:30 min, 2002, single channel video, SD Pal
In this piece the performer is linked with a mobile camera via a nylon thread. Each of his gestures pulls the camera sideways and animates his image. A strange dance develops which throws the performer off-centre or even out of sight. His appearance on stage is undermined by his own effort. Each impulse to act threatens his position in the spotlight. Performer: Christoph Oertli
Website: christophoertli.ch
3 mins, Warsaw, 2008
Website: Eva Keitzmann evakietzmann.net/
