You may have heard that Culture and Sport Glasgow (the body responsible for art galleries, libraries and sports centres in Glasgow) and the Gallery of Modern Art have recently decided not to show a number of artworks that they had planned to exhibit as part of the sh[Out] LGBT arts programme. In particular, this has affected the work of Spanish artist Dani Marti and his residency with Gay Mens’ Health.
Three pieces of Dani’s work were withdrawn by CSG – effectively censored. These works were “talking heads” type documentaries where gay men revealed their HIV status and discussed issues around their lives and loves. They were to be shown on a few Thursday evenings after 5.30pm at GOMA. Other parts of the programme have been re-scheduled and doubt has been cast over whether other planned exhibits will be allowed to go ahead.
Culture and Sport Glasgow have stated that one of the reasons it decided to withdraw Dani’s work was to protect the artists, the sh[Out] programme and the LGBT community as a whole from negative press and attacks from other groups that would “negate both the artistic and societal endeavour” of the programme.
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Eat what you can find for free cafe and a programme of short films as part of Glasgow Festival of DIY Culture
This event is part of the Glasgow Festival of DIY Culture and of the Bildwechsel programme of events, 17th – 23rd September: Experiments in Living
Monday 21st September, @ The Albany, 44 Ashley Street, Glasgow, G3 6DS (please use entrance on Carnarvon St)
6pm: eat what you can find for free café
Join us for some tasty found morsels
7pm: queer collective-made short films
and with luck a feature on queer squatting (check back here for updates)
Film Programme:
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coral short and bildwechsel present international DIY film culture to you with an amazing bill of shorts from europe, north america and australia.
bildwechsel is a powerful european feminist film archive based in hamburg that has been around for over 30 years, and coral short has been working with them for almost a decade. come out and enjoy an eclectic mix of gay videos while munching on free popcorn!
date: August 13, 2009
beginning: 8:00 pm
venue: café touski, 2361 ontario e., Montréal (touski.org)
For more info:
coralshort.com
perverscite.org
Bildwechsel presents the new format “VIDEO-DENKARIUM” and invites you to watch films/videos on ‘experiments in living’
- dates:
- Saturday, 8th of August, starting at 4pm:
bring and share your clothes
- Wednesday, 12th of August, 2pm – 9pm:
video-denkarium: film program
- Thursday, 13th of August, 3pm:
“ich und mein buch” workshop on how to publish your own book
- Saturday, 15th of August, 6pm – 10pm:
presentation of “wexel-dress to support” and video-denkarium: film program
venue: Westwerk, Admiralitätsstr. 74, Hamburg (westwerk.org)
For further information and details please visit: bildwechsel.org/aktuell.html