Insite Exhibition Tour with Andrea Fatona

Please join us for the free Insite Exhibition Tour with Andrea Fatona!

Wednesday, May 28, 6:30 p.m.

Andrea Fatona is an assistant professor in the Criticism and Curatorial program at OCAD University in Toronto. She was the former curator of contemporary art at the Ottawa Art Gallery, and has worked as the programme director at Video In, Vancouver, Co-Director of Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, and Artistic Director of Artspace Gallery, Peterborough. Fatona is equally concerned with the pedagogical possibilities of art works produced by other Canadians in articulating broader perspectives of Canadian identities. At its core, her curatorial practice is concerned with creating spaces of engagement inside and outside of the gallery walls. Some examples of her curatorial projects are: Queer Collaborations 1993, Across Borders 1995/6, Cadboro Bay: Index to an Incomplete History 1999, The Attack of the Sandwich Men 2001, a national touring exhibition entitled, Reading the Image: Poetics of the Black Diaspora 2006-2008, Fibred Optics 2009-10, Will Work for Food 2011, and Land Marks 2013-14.

ONSITE [AT] OCAD U

230 Richmond Street West Street level

Onsite has fully accessible entrances. There is a single-user, gender neutral, restroom on the ground level that is wheelchair accessible.

The closest accessible subway is Osgoode Station. Exit the subway at Osgoode Station and walk west on Richmond St W towards Simcoe Street. Its a 3 minute walk to the gallery from Osgoode Station.

Generations of Queer

Robert Flack / John Greyson / Elisha Lim / Kiley May

March 12 to June 28, 2014

Curated by Lisa Deanne Smith

Generations of Queer is an exhibition centred on storytelling, creating a dialogue between the works of two senior artists and two younger artists who have come into queer discourses as beneficiaries of the activism of their predecessors.

[Bios]

Robert Flack 1957-1993 was bron in Guelph, ON, and moved to Toronto to study at York University BFA 1980. He began employment at Art Metropole in 1980 and assisted on General Idea projects. From 1981 his work was shown nationally and then internationally. Public collections include the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photograph. Paul Petro Contemporary Art represents the Estate of Robert Flack. www.paulpetro.com

John Greyson is a Toronto based film and video maker who has been politically active in the Toronto queer community for the past 33 years. With short videos and feature films he explores topics ranging from anti-censorship battles, AIDS discrimination, same sex marriage, militarism, the tar sands, Israelie apartheid and the fight for AIDS treatment drugs in Africa and the world. He is recognized for his documentary interviews, historical narratives, opera, found footage and camp. His work reflects many of the legal and politically struggles for queers in the 1980s as well as world politics with a strong queer voice.

Elisha Lim exhibits illustrations and animated shorts internationally, and has advocated against transphobia and racism on United Nations panels and as a director of Montreal's first Racialized Pride Week. Their comic strops Favourite Dating Tales, Sissy, The Illustrated Gentleman and 100 Butches are acclaimed by Autostraddle, Bitch Magazine and New York Times bestselling author Alison Bechdel, and their debut graphic novel 100 Crushes will be published in June 2014 by Koyama Press and launched at Onsite [at] OCAD U. www.elishalim.com

Kiley May is a young Mohawk storyteller, artist, creator and shaman. Kiley is also a two-spirit, trans, queer and genderqueer human being. Their gender pronouns are they/their/them. They work in film, photography, writing, journalism, fashion, dance and performance art.

Lisa Deanne Smith is engaged in a cultural practice that moves between mediums - art, curating, writing and community events - exploring issues of voice, experience and power. She has exhibited internationally including White Columns, The New Museum and Mercer Union. Currently, she is Acting Curator at Onsite [at] OCAD University. Recent curatorial projects include Biological Urbanism: Terreform ONE; No Dull Affairs; Karen Lofgren, Vanessa Maltese and Jillian McDonald; and I Wonder: Marian Bantjes.

The blog:

The Pride Chronicles http://blog.ocad.ca/wordpress/thepridechronicles/

The Queer Pride Chronicles is a forum for LGBTTIQQ2SA communities to add thoughtful content to Pride.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer/Questioning, 2 Spirited, Allies

Share your story, pictures and/or videos here!

Possible topics to get you writing:

What is Pride?

What was the first Pride celebration you attended?

What is your coming out story?

Have you had a romance, fling or crush that developed at a Pride celebration?

How has queer changed for you over the past 40 years?

What have you learned from a queer family member or close friend?