In honor of Queer|Art|Mentorship’s 15-year anniversary, Queer|Art is bringing together artists, scholars, and organizers for a two-day Summit on community practices and queer artistry in times of crisis. Following Alexis Pauline Gumbs' inquiry, “What are the intergenerational and evolutionary ways that we become what we practice?” the Summit, Becoming What We Practice, will seek to answer this question from different creative and methodological perspectives: mentoring, speculating, translating, archiving, adapting, collaborating, cruising, summoning, world-building.
Sliding scale tickets are available here for the full weekend of Summit programming, and include admission to the afterparty. Your ticket sale directly supports Queer|Art's mission to provide mentorship and other critical means of support for queer and trans artists across the United States.
The Summit takes place on Saturday, November 21st (11am - 5:30pm) and Sunday, November 22nd (11am - 6pm) at Performance Space New York (150 1st Ave, 4th Floor, New York, NY). A detailed schedule will be released soon.
Participating artists
Day 1 (11am - 5:30pm)
Ela Troyano
Ethan Philbrick
Eva Yaa Asantewaa
Geoffrey Mak
Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Ira Sachs
Kate Bornstein
Kay Gabriel
Kelindah Bee
Kyle b. Co.
Leo Herrera
madison moore
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
Moe Angelos
Odalys Burgoa
Sade Johnson
T Fleischmann
viento izquierdo-ugaz
Xandra Nur Clark
Zefyr Lisowski
Day 2 (11am - 6pm)
Anh Vo (in collaboration with Open Movement)
Avram Finkelstein
Blake Paskal
Caroline Woolard
Catching on Thieves
Creighton Baxter
Demian DinéYazhi’
Jaime Manrique
Lee Laa Ray Guillory
Morgan Bassichis
Mylo Mendez/Queer Fight School
Naima Lowe
Shellyne Rodriguez
Becoming What We Practice is curated by Reya Sehgal, Rio Sofia, viento izquierdo-ugaz, Nile Harris, Zefyr Lisowski, and Catching on Thieves, and produced by Buffy Sierra in collaboration with the Performance Space New York staff.
THE AFTERPARTY
The Illustrious Blacks, courtesy of the artist.
USHKA, image courtesy of the artist.
On Saturday, November 21st, following a full day of workshops and conversations, we're hosting an extravagant afterparty from 9 PM–1 AM, featuring DJ sets and live performances from USHKA and the Illustrious Blacks!
Sliding scale tickets are available here for the afterparty only, in case you prefer to attend just the nighttime festivities. All ticket sales will benefit F2L, a community effort working to end the incarceration of Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color who are queer, trans, and Two-Spirit in New York.
ABOUT PERFORMANCE SPACE NEW YORK
Over the last 40 years Performance Space New York has been propelling cultural, theoretical, and political discourse forward. Futurity and world-building connect the interdisciplinary works presented here—works that have dissolved the borders of performance art, dance, theater, music, visual art, poetry and prose, ritual, night life, food, film, and technology, shattering artistic and social norms alike.
Founded in 1980, Performance Space New York (formerly Performance Space 122) became a haven for many queer and radical voices shut out by a repressive, monocultural mainstream and conservative government whose neglect exacerbated the emerging AIDS epidemic’s devastation. Carrying forward the multitudinous visions of these artists who wielded the political momentum of self-expression amidst the intensifying American culture wars, Performance Space is one of the birthplaces of contemporary performance as it is known today.
ABOUT OUR PARTNERS
Becoming What We Practice is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts,
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and UGG.
