riffRAg panel: "Examining Visibilites: Queer Visual Culture in the New Millennium: Roundtable"

The "Examining Visibilites: Queer Visual Culture in the New Millennium: Roundtable" is scheduled to take place on March 4, from 10:30am-12:30pm at Sarah Lawrence College.

What, and where, is queer visual culture in the new millennium? Where queer movement in the early 1980’s embodied the politics of separatism as embodied in the Great Lesbian Art Show, the late 1980’s and early 1990’s had ACT UP, whose bold graphics and flamboyant protest actions helped imprint the movement on social memory as visually and visibly queer. What does it mean to make visibly queer art or to engage in a queer sense of aesthetics today? With current attacks on queers and queer culture showing no sign of decreasing and assimilationist rhetoric also kicking in to high gear, especially in the debate around gay marriage, is a bold and brash ACT UP style of queer protest graphics needed now? In what other--perhaps more subtle--ways can queer culture and desire be represented visually?

Saturday March 4, 2006

10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Small Sessions I

Examining Visibilites: Queer Visual Culture in the New Millennium: Roundtable

- Eleanor Whitney, Co-editor riffRAG, moderator
- Desireena Almoradie, Documentary producer and student at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
- Kerry Downey, Painter, curator
- Kagendo Murungi, Film producer
- Laimah Osman, Multi-media artist working for social justice.
- Sally Willowbee, Mixed media artist

Directions to Sarah Lawrence College:

Metro-North Railroad Harlem Line commuter trains run every half-hour between 6:00 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. weekdays, and hourly on weekends. Take the train from Grand Central Terminal to the Bronxville Station. Purchase your round-trip tickets at the station to
avoid an extra charge. Please call Metro-North at 800.METROGO (800.638.7646), visit the Metro-North site, or inquire at the information booth in Grand Central Terminal for exact schedule and fare information. Taxi service is available at the Bronxville Station for the short ride to the College or you can walk to the college from the train station, which is about a 15 minute walk.

Driving directions please see the Sarah Lawrence Website at http://www.slc.edu/index.php?pageID=1399