From Vancouver's West End to Zagreb\, Croatia\, Satellite Gallery's upcoming exhibitionQueering Citizenship\, which opens on May 15 at 6pm\, reflects a landscape that is socially and politically diverse.
By considering the climate of queer citizens in Eastern Europe and Africa\ , the exhibition poses the question\, “How might art and culture help us to look again at the way in which we understand the conditions of queer citiz ens in global politics?” The artists in the exhibition engage with the term queer not only as an identity that embraces different sexualities\, gender s\, international and transnational backgrounds\, but as a verb: as in quee ring or rethinking the familiar ways citizenship and belonging are defined.
Responding to citizenship by representing individual narratives as w ell as abstracted forms\, the works communicate an archive of feelings and memories. The artists present different perspectives in their expression of history\, place and the location of a culture of pride. The various method s of display\, signage\, postering and music-video anthem queer our experie nce of the gallery space and expand the cultural imagination in a nervous p resent. The artists each show a deep connection to an understanding of plac e and citizenship.
The exhibition includes works by Canadian-based an d international artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan\, Francisco Fernand o-Granados\, Igor Grubi?\, Kevin Madill\, Naufus Ramírez-Figuroa\, Benny Ne merofsky Ramsay and Pascal Lièvre\, Emily Roysdon and Alize Zorlutuna.
< p>Queering Citizenship is curated by Derrick Chang\, a Master's candidate in the Critical and Curatorial Studies program at the University of British Columbia.Public critique with Amy Fung to be held at 1pm June 23rd\, 2014
Curator's Tour with Derrick Chang: Saturday\, May 17 at 2:30pm
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