QIY: Queer It Yourself —Tools for Survival at SOMArtsWhat: QIY: Queer It Yourself —Tools for Survival Opening Reception: Saturday June 4, 1–5pm Exhibition Dates: June 4–26, 2011 Where: SOMArts Main Gallery, 934 Brannan Street (between 8th and 9th) What Else: Free admission. More information at http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/QFest11/QIYshow.html pening Reception June 4 QIY curatorial committee: Exhibition Coordinator: Nicki Green Exhibition Design: Matt McKinley Opening Reception: Beth Pickens Special thanks to: Anthony Privatera, Justin Hoover, Visual Aid, and the GLBT Historical Society. Inspired by the late 1960s utopian builders' guide A Whole Earth Catalog, QIY: Queer It Yourself – Tools for Survival presents a forum for queer do-it-yourself culture and alternative world making. QIY is envisioned as a laboratory for creating a sustainable queer culture and demonstrating the power of self and community organizing, re-creation, speculation, and transformation. As an antidote to anti-sociality theories of queerness (that suggest queerness can only be rendered as a negation of heteronormativity), Queer It Yourself invites artists to forge their own tools for confronting the everyday challenges of contemporary queer existence. The exhibition presents artists' workstations, participatory spaces, hands-on training sites, maps, artwork, ephemera, and user-friendly art that foreground immersive and interactive experiences. These works demonstrate how art can provide active and meaningful tools for surviving our contemporary lived world. The curators have queered the index of the original "Whole Earth Catalog" and adapted its thoughtful and useful categories to reinvent our own catalog of queer tool-making and to frame this QIY space. Land Use / Dig it (organic farming, community gardens, eco-projects, cruising sites, earthworks, recycling projects). Shelter / Sheltering (guides to urban and rural homemaking, greening your living space, creating mood lighting with energy efficient fixtures, housing collectives, polyamorous living). Craft Making / Queering it (queer arts and crafts, craft demos, how-to guides and workshops). Commerce / Selling it (selling it, experiments with capitalism, fashion collectives, sexwork, alternative book, art, and product distribution). Community / Join in (political organizing, queer community organizing, ad hoc political action committees, queer pride, gay shame, organizing your first demonstration). Nomadics / Roaming (the culture of the road, the runway, the superhighway, transnationalism, queer diasporas, queer immigrant and exile cultures). Communications / Connecting (zines, homo-core music, queer speed-dating, independent publishing, social networking, blogging, promotional strategies, writing your first press release, street art, queer graffiti). Learning / Get Schooled (community art and culture projects, health activism, continuing education, grant writing and fundraising, guides for queer survival). Style / Working it (working the runway, drag king culture, drag queen culture, fashion and make-up tips and tricks, makeover demonstrations, finding the right photographer for your head-shot). Artists in the Exhibition:
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