ART, DOCUMENTATION & THE LESBIAN REVOLUTION
MIX NYC presents a screening at CUNY CLAGS ALMS conference.
An international conference focusing on LGBT archives, libraries, museums special collections happening May 8-10.
Selected films & videos from the Lesbian Herstory Archives (NYC) and the Bildwechsel Archive (Hamburg, Germany)
Presented by Kate Huh, Co-Director Mix NYC. Co-curated with archivists Christina Schäfer & Claude Förster, Bildwechsel Archive.
These two women’s archives serve as important repositories of lesbian history via film, video, books, photographs and ephemera. This screening will examine the overlapping of lesbian political activist documentation & experimental media art. In a short discussion after the screening we will discuss value that these archives hold as resources for artists, curators and queer political historians.
Approximate running time – 60 minutes
date: 10. May 2008
beginning: 3:45 pm
venue: Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, #7115
New York, New York
entrance fee: $10 (for day pass to ALMS Screenings )
Program:
From the Lesbian Herstory Archives Collection
Lesbians Organized for Video Experience (L.O.V.E.)
Barbara Jabaily (Camera), Tracy Fitz (Editor), 1973, USA, Video, B/W, Sound, 9 min.
An excerpt from the L.O.V.E tapes collection. Images of the collective building a large paper mache dinosaur and wheeling it down 5th Ave. during a demonstration for lesbian rights and visibility in front of the Museum of Natural History, NYC.
WOW Cafe Springfest
WOW Collective (camera), 1986, USA, Video, Color, Sound, 4 min.
An excerpt of WOW’s annual spring festival. Early femme empowerment with a casio beat you can dance to by the new-wave/punk band The Useless Femmes: Kathy Thomas, Lynn Hayes & Deb Miller.
Doctors, Liars and Women
Jean Carlo Musto & Maria Magentti, 1988, USA, Video, Color, Sound, 5 min.
Produced in conjunction with G.M.H.C. for the “Living with AIDS Show,” an excerpt of female members of ACT-UP NYC confronting a doctor who had published an article in Ms. magazine claiming that women had no risk of HIV transmission from having unprotected sex with HIV positive partners.
Keep Your Laws off Our Bodies
Zoe Leonard & Catherine Saalfield, 1990, USA, video/Super8, B&W, Sound, 13 min.
Political action and lesbian sexuality meet in this experimental short which deals with legislation that effects the bodies of women. This film includes documentation of ACT-UP demonstrations, arrests and historical facts about laws which control the rights of women.
From the Bildwechsel Archive Collection
Charakter X
Nkid, 2004, Germany,Video, Color, Sound, 1 min.
CX impropriates power via language and in this, Cx becomes a critic to the normative thinking of gender. CX could be a technobody, a virus or a copy of digitalpicture collage who is squating your monitor.
The Corner
Christina Schäfer, 2007, Germany, Super 8 (transfer to video), Color, Sound, 3 min.
St. Pauli in the morning when somebody familiar is missing.
Homo Homes
Louise Lockwood, Scotland, 1998, Video, Color, Sound, 4 min.
A humorous TV advert looking at gay and lesbian home interiors.
Sink or Swim
Coral Short, UK, 2005, Video, Sound, Color, 3 min.
Amateur International Synchronized Swimming Team at the Brockwell Lido.
In the Ladies Lounge
Fadia K Abboud, 2006, Australia, Video, Color, Sound, 12 min.
In a Beirut lounge room in 1926, a photograph was taken of two Lebanese lesbians in drag. Now, this photograph hangs in a Sydney lounge room of two Lebanese lesbians. Some things have changed, some things haven’t.
The Thing
Anna Daucikova, 2002, Slowenia, Video, Color, Sound, 4 min.
A funny play about expectations.
Ganz oben
Ewjenia Tsanana, 1997, Germany, Video, Color, Sound, 2 min.
Ewjenia Tsanana runs up a stairway, takes off her T-shirt and shows – now really close to the sky – what on the top can mean for breasts.
Links:
MIX website: mixnyc.org
Information about CLAGS: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Clags/