Queer Arts Festival's bumfuzzled monachopsis exhibit explores new gender-diverse spaces, at the Roundhouse June 17 to 28
Kickoff visual-art show spans 3D sculpture, costume design, and digitally altered photography
From Rachel Britton’s “Dysmorphia” photographic series, at the Queer Arts Festival.
Queer Arts Festival presents bumfuzzled monachopsis: innerspace out from June 17 to 28
“A STATE OF bewilderment caused by a persistent feeling of being out of place”: that’s the explanation Queer Arts Festival is giving for bumfuzzled monachopsis—the title of its signature visual-arts exhibit that kicks off the entire event this weekend.
Held at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre’s Exhibition Hall, the show subtitled “innerspace out” is curated by interdisciplinary artist and cultural worker Zandi Dandizette. It spans 16 professional artists, most of whom identify along the trans or gender-diverse spectrum, who explore the feeling by taking up space, sharing space, and claiming ownership of their place in space.
That includes the mind- and body-bending photography of Rachel Britton, shown here: the photographer’s “Dysmorphia” series intertangles limbs and flesh, often digitally altered and lit in neon colours, to the point where the sculptural forms look, at first, out of this world—capturing the amorphous “genderless in-between” the American artist strives for.
The show brings in artists from here and around the globe, spanning 3D sculpture, textile art, painting, photography, film, and live performance. For an idea of the range, artists include Turkish/American designer and drag-artist costumier Eda Birthing; local illustrator and tattoo artist Makoto Chi; Vancouver illustrator and painter Odera Igbokwe; and New York multidisciplinary artist Pastiche Lumumba.
The exhibit will be on display to the public daily at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre Exhibition Hall from 9 am to 9 pm and is free to attend. Dandizette hosts a free guided tour on June 24 at 2 pm; register via the link here.
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