LGBTQ+ Cabinets of Curiosities
LGBTQ+ HAPPY HOURS: Activities
August 3, 2017
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Cinema: INTIMIDÉS
From directors Melissa Beaudet and Eza Paventi.
The mission of the Jasmin Roy Foundation is to fight discrimination, bullying and violence against young people in schools at the elementary and secondary levels.
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August 4, 2017
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Cinema: LILIES
Movie presented in English. “Stunning…Superb… A Fierce Poetic Vision.” (New York Film Festival). With Brent Carver, Marcel Sabourin, Albert Pallascio, Jason Cadieux, Matthew Ferguson, Danny Gilmore, Alexander Chapman…
John Greyson (born March 13, 1960) is a Canadian director, writer, video artist, producer and political activist, whose work frequently deals with gay themes. Greyson is also a professor at York University’s film school, where he teaches film and video theory, film production and editing. Though Greyson has won awards and achieved critical success with his films, most notably Lilies (1993), his outspoken persona, activism and public image has also attracted international press and controversy. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in the 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave. |
August 8, 2017
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Cinema: UN HOMME DE DANSE – VINCENT WARREN
A film by Marie Brodeur, 2016 (83 min.) Marie Brodeur began a career as a film director in 1986 after having worked for 10 years in the modern ballet world in Canada, the United States and Europe. She has a background in visual arts, dance, theater and video art. Her works have received several international awards and are part of prestigious public collections in New York, Paris, Montreal. Producers: Alain Thériault, Marie Brodeur, Produced by TAP Film Inc.
Image: Cérémonie © Ronald Labelle, 1971 |
August 9, 2017
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Cinema: SARAH PRÉFÈRE LA COURSE
A film by Chloé Robichaud, 2013 (100 min.).
Chloé Robichaud graduated in Film Production from Concordia University and later joined INIS. In 2010, her film Moi non plus was presented among the favorites of the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival and in official competition at the Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal. In 2012, her short film Chef de meute was presented in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The following year, Sarah préfère la course, her first feature film, was shown in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival.
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August 10, 2017
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Conference: Y A-T-IL UN ART QUEER ?
By Jonathan Sardelis. Is there a queer art? If so, what does it look like? Jonathan Sardelis, master’s student in visual and media arts at UQÀM, will demystify this term and offer an overview of the history of queer art and its current manifestations in the Montreal art scene. This conference proposes to reflect on queer not only from an identity, social and political perspective, but also from aesthetic issues. Jonathan Sardelis‘s research-creation focuses on the representation of eroticism and the body from a queer perspective, more particularly in painting.
Image: JJ Levine, Mikiki (2012) |
August 11, 2017
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Cinema: TOMBER DANS L’ŒIL, REGARDS SUR LA DIVERSITÉ SEXUELLE (10’21’’)
Directed by Anna Lupien. In the spirit of awareness and inclusion, this short ten-minute docufiction helps to combat stereotypes and to question the way we look at others. Anna Lupien is interested in art and people, societal issues and creation as a way of apprehending the world or as a motor of social transformation. She makes several series of short films presented online, in theaters and in museum spaces.
Cinema: KOOPLES, 2016
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August 14, 2017
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Conference: LE CORPS GAY
By Karl-Gilbert Murray. Curator Karl-Gilbert Murray recounts the conception of the first exhibition on male homosexuality in a Quebec museum institution, namely the Musée d’Art Contemporain des Laurentides in 2002. A specialist in contemporary art, Karl-Gilbert Murray does research on questions of identity (Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Gay Studies, Queer Theory and theories on feminist art) which focus on the intersections between gender studies and questions underlying alternative sexualities, in particular gay and queer, in the field of visual arts. Image: Johannes Zits, GNI-Magazines, 2002, digital print on archival paper, from the video “Guys Night In”, 35 cm x 26 cm. |
August 15, 2017
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Conference: WUNDERKAMMERN: DEUX EXPOSITIONS REMARQUABLES SUR LA SEXUALITÉ: «HOMOSEXUALITÉS» (BERLIN 2015) et «LE SEXE À VIENNE» (2016)
Lecture by Robert Schwartzwald. The speaker will outline two exhibitions held in Berlin and Vienna, cities notorious for their roles in shaping modern concepts of sexuality. Robert Schwartzwald is Professor in the Department of Literatures and World Languages at the University of Montreal. He has published several texts on the relationship between the portrayal of homosexuality and nationalism. Among his recent publications, a book on the film “C.R.A.Z.Y.” by Jean-Marc Vallée in the Queer Film Classics series. |
August 16, 2017
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Lecture by JEAN-PAUL DAOUST
Poet and spokesperson for the Archives gaies du Québec 2017 fundraising campaign. Prize draw for an artwork by EVERGON and JEAN-JACQUES RINGUETTE for fundraising donors. Jean-Paul Daoust is a Quebec poet and essayist who has published some thirty collections of poetry and two novels since 1976. Les Cendres bleues (1993), Le Vitrail brisé (2009) and Rituels d’Amérique (2013) are just a few of his frank successes honored with various awards.
Image: Evergon & Jean-Jacques Ringuette, Alex and Gab with Bottom’s Ass Head, 2016 |
Evergon, an internationally renowned Canadian artist, photographer and teacher, is a true cultural icon. A pioneer of contemporary homoerotic art and an emblematic figure of homosexual communities in North America, he works in cultural circles through his active defense of homosexual rights. His approach questions society, its normativity and its tendency to impose a dominant sexual identity.
Jean-Jacques Ringuette is a Quebec artist whose work, marked by the tension between realism and artifice, irony and tragedy, regularly takes the body (or its evocation) as its main motive and revolves around the notion of incarnation, in the broad sense of the manifestation of the various states and attitudes that the psyche adopts in its relationship to the flesh and the world. His works have been presented in Europe, the United States, Quebec and Canada.
August 17, 2017
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Conference: REGARD QUEER SUR L’ARCHITECTURE: QUELLE EST LA RELATION ENTRE SEXUALITÉ, GENRE ET ENVIRONNEMENT BÂTI
By Olivier Vallerand, architect. This meeting presents the different interpretations that architects and architectural historians have of the relationship between the built environment, sexuality and gender. The notions of identity, tension between private and public, oppression and reappropriation will be among others discussed. Olivier Vallerand is an architect (Ordre des Architectes du Québec), within the 1x1x1 creation laboratory and guest researcher at University of California, Berkeley. He is also a lecturer at the School of Architecture at Laval University and research coordinator at GRIS-Montreal.
Image: Elmgreen & Dragset, The Hockney Bathroom, The Nordic Pavilion, 53e Biennale de Venise, 2009. © Anders Sune Berg |
August 18, 2017
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MY GAY LIFE
By John Banks. Français/English.
¾ of a century of sex: discovering sex; experimental sex; expansive sex; bisexual sex; trios, orgies, saunas, its all open and nothing held it back. Then reality, fears, protection, and those ugly people who, told us that their god was punishing gays.
Image: John Banks © Robert Tessier |
