Queer Contemporary: the Mardi Gras hub for queer art and visual culture
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Queer Contemporary: the Mardi Gras hub for queer art and visual culture
DATES: 15 February – 14 March 2020
OPENING NIGHT: Friday 14 February, 6 – 10pm
Misfit: Collage and queer practice
Location: Rayner Hoff Project Space
Artists: Tony Albert, Archie Barry, Gary Carsley, Brian Fuata, Deborah Kelly, Del Lumanta, Sarah Rodigari, Tejal Shah, Tyza Stewart, Guanyu Xu, Paul Yore
Curator: Scott Elliot
Queer artists have long understood the power of collage as a tool for manipulating the singular narratives that so often exclude them. Misfit examines the idea of collage as a medium especially susceptible to embodying queer experience. Presenting works by Australian and international artists who engage with performance, video, text, photography, textile, painting, paper and sound, Misfit looks at how the radically reassembled can veer us closer to unseen truths, productive ambiguities and powerful positions of resistance.
Image: Deborah Kelly, Venus as a Boy (detail), digital print on silk, 100 x 200 cm. Courtesy and © the artist
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