a series of events with
Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue

 

Screening

 

Hers is Still a Dank Cave:
Crawling Towards a Queer Horizon
+ films/videos from
each artist’s practice

co-presented by
Cinenova Distribution and Electra

presented at DIY Space for London
01/05/2016

co-curated by
Nella Aarne,
Erik Martinson,
Charlotte Procter,
and Irene Revell

Q&A by: Nazmia Jamal
Djs: Rehana Zaman,
Letitia Pleiades

 

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Panel Discussion

 

Queer futures and World-building
with
Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell

presented at
Centre for Feminist Research
Goldsmiths,
University of London
03/05/2016

panelists: Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell,
Sara Ahmed, Catherine Grant, Nazmia Jamal

co-chairs: Nella Aarne
and Erik Martinson

Hers is Still a Dank Cave:
Crawling Towards a Queer Horizon 
+ films/videos from each artist’s practice

In Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, José Esteban Muñoz writes, ‘We must dream and enact new ways of being in the world.’ Hers Is Still a Dank Cave: Crawling Toward a Queer Horizon responds to this injunction by bringing an everyday feminist utopia into being. This new world is not a remote planet twinkling in the distance. It is not only then and there—it is here and now, where we already live.

The future in Dank Cave is a mash-up of stereotype and utopia; it is not sanitized or sublimated. We won’t live in the future without our macramé, our shag, our little animals. The female body will not be cleaned up in this queer future—it will arrive trailing its effluvia: bodily fluids, odours, patches of fur, cellulite, granny panties, that sucking sound. The lesbian feminist body, the fat body, the depressed body—it comes wrapped in context, swaddled in knitwear, and it requires a lot of rest. By remaining horizontal and low to the ground, this body serves as a queer horizon, the warm light of potentiality breaking just beyond it.

 

Programme:

FAG Feminist Art Gallery VIDEO
Allyson Mitchell & Deirdre Logue, 2014, 4:48

Dyke Pussy
Allyson Mitchell, 2008, 0:50

Beyond the Usual Limits: Part 1
Deirdre Logue, 2005, 2:55

If Anyone Should Happen To Get In My Way
Allyson Mitchell & Christina Zeidler, 2003, 2:30

Worry
Deirdre Logue, 2005, 1:38

Glitter
Allyson Mitchell & Christina Zeidler, 2003, 1:00

Sticker Lover
Allyson Mitchell, 2003, 0:30

Scratch
Deirdre Logue, 1998, 3:00

Cupcake
Allyson Mitchell, 1998, 2:30

Eclipse
Deirdre Logue, 2005, 4:38

Melty Kitty
Allyson Mitchell, 2006, 2:30

Pond
Deirdre Logue, 2011, 4:30

Unca Trans
Allyson Mitchell & Christina Zeidler, 2007, 5:50

Hers is Still a Dank Cave: Crawling Towards a Queer Horizon
Allyson Mitchell & Deirdre Logue, 2016, 24:58

 

*Programme notes available here.

 

 

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Queer futures and World-building
with
Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell

The Centre for Feminist Research and Department of Art are pleased to welcome Toronto artists and co-founders of Feminist Art Gallery (FAG), Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue to Goldsmiths.This panel discussion on queer futures and world-building features Logue and Mitchell’s new collaborative video work, Hers is Still a Dank Cave: Crawling Towards a Queer Horizon, as a point of departure for a discussion between the artists and three panellists: Sara Ahmed (Goldsmiths), Catherine Grant (Goldsmiths) and Nazmia Jamal (teacher and curator). The panel is chaired by Erik Martinson and Nella Aarne (Goldsmiths).

*Handout with bios for panel available here.