QUEER SHOW

The Queer Show was spurred into existence by artist Debbie Sharp because of a noticeable lack of Queer, DIY, artist-led activity in the city during ‘Pride’ paired with a collective dissatisfaction with the lack of engaging direct expression. This show aims to question and provide a counter platform to the culture being cultivated during ‘manchester Pride Festival’

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artist queer show 4 Gary Fisher

Gary Fisher is a sound and visual artist and improviser working in a continuous process of experimentation and inquiry based around instinctive or investigatory responses to sounds, spaces, objects, images and words. Central to this process is a fascination with exploring and amplifying the sounds of textures, surfaces and objects, testing the sound-making possibilities of objects, home-made instruments and using found objects and sounds to create new works. This includes experimenting with various media and techniques combining analogue with digital technologies and alternative approaches to conventional instruments and techniques. This process is prolific and generates many outcomes and by-products including sound making, recording and performance, drawing, collage, photography, texts and installation. Performances have varied from demonstrating an amplified jacket, to using metal railings as an instrument, to long-form improvisations combining various instruments, objects and technologies.

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artist queer show 4 Sian williams

Sian Williams

Sian Williams is a musician, film maker and archivist based in Manchester/Salford. She will be arranging a visual installation:

“I will be showing a triptych of projections, It takes the form of three looped projections and a surround soundtrack. The projections are edited from 16mm analogue footage and leader collected during my work as a film archivist.These are the incongruous splices and scratched leader that emphasis films texture and tangibility. By queering formal film practice and referencing early religious art traditions, this triptych asks ‘Is Your Gate Clean?’ (film term) with the centre projection representing our present experience and the left and right projections (using the filmic terms of ‘header’ and ‘footer’) our past and future. ‘Is Your Gate Clean?’ is an analogue film term taking the form of a printed reminder on the surface of the film to the projectionist. When situated within this triptych the term is intended as a question for the viewer to ask themselves in regards to their bodily position and perspective in relation to the filmic body”

http://sian-av.tumblr.com/

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artist queer show 4 HOMOCULT

Classified: Pedofile 

investigations undertaken by HOMOCULT

Extract 

Ref: PEDO1970

Once upon a time there was a Fabulous Princess, who lived in a Beautiful Brilliant Castle. Every morning she looked out of her ivory tower high above her loving subjects who would stand for hours in the freezing cold just to catch a glimpse of her. They cheered her and blessed her name and waved flags in her honour, those who couldn't afford a flag would wave whatever they could even their own pants, it was then she knew she could do no wrong they would always love her, as she took the last crust of bread from their dying babies mouths, they would smile and bow and tell their dying children just how beautiful she was…

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music queer show 4 Trash-O-Rama

Trash-O-Rama are a Mancunian DJ twosome, who have held residencies at queer clubbing icons Homoelectric and Bollox and have been a regular fixture on the Manchester DIY and queer scenes for over 5 years now DJing at cellar parties and club nights, promoting underground noise band nights and hosting stages at SFTOC for the last 3 years. As well as throwing semi regular parties at Islington Mill under the banners of clubsterben and Trouble at T’Mill the TOR DJs can also be found holding court on the 2nd Friday of the month @ Cord Bar in the Northern Quarter. No pretence, no rules, no egos, no particular style or genre – just all out trashy fun! Expect: //mutantpunkfunk//psychedelicdungeondisco//queerbeat//electroclash//postpunk//nowave// Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trashoramaclub Twitter: https://twitter.com/trash0ramadjs Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/trashoramaclubmanc

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artist queer show 4 Jez Dolan

Jez Dolan

Jez Dolan is a Manchester based artist interested in collaboration, social engagement, and challenging the defined roles of artist / participant / viewer. Working with photography, performance, printmaking and curating, Jez's current area of research revolves around the use of archival and historical documentation in the creation of new work, examining the lesser explored avenues of Queer histories. Jez is currently working on The Polari Mission, which is exhibiting at the John Rylands Library Manchester until Feb. 2014. www.jezdolan.com

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artist queer show 4 Andrew Adshead

Andrew Adshead

Andrew Adshead is a visual artist currently based in Manchester. He studied Sculpture at Chelsea College of Art and Design. A lover of all things kitsch and melancholy, his work exists somewhere between the two in an attempt to give new life or purpose to objects long discarded or forgotten.

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music queer show 4 ILL

ILL aim to fly into pure expression until euphoric heavy jump up and down noise is created. A strong feminist ethic persists in the ideology and creative approaches employed by ILL. Performative aspects of the live show are explored and indulged in with things such as metal cod pieces, the sawing of nail clad limbs, bandaged bodies and explosive vocals. The sometimes structured, sometimes spontaneous compositions embrace the entire emotional spectrum and hold a furious energy close to their hearts.  “ILL have a harsh Faust flavour that borders on the industrial…great music with a wayward edge. And yes, you can still dance to it." - Cath Aubergine

"It’s like Cosmopolitans and Leopards and Ill Ease and Valerie all rolled into one. (I would apologise for making these references way obscure, but … uh… the music we’re discussing here is even more obscure.)"- Everett True

www.weareill.com

www.twitter.com/we_are_ill

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poetry queer show 4 Stirred poetry

Stirred will be performing feminist, queer poetry Featuring Sarah Logan, Rebecca Audra Smith, Anna Percy and others tbc. 

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music queer show 4 german techno lezbians

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music queer show 4 trash kit

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artist queer show 4 2KOI KARP

2 Koi Karp was conceived through a hallucination.

2 Koi Karp are artists Neil VG (vocalist in Gnod and recent addition to Terminal Cheesecake) and Louise Woodcock (Poppycock, ex-Womb) began in earnest early this year with their acquisition of The Basement Room space in central Manchester.

2 Koi Karp's sound developed rapidly at a recent artists' residency in Ibiza with Islington Mill. This was mainly through the introduction of tape machines and the abandonment of a full drum kit to create a live improvised soundtrack to Uberjubilee; a video by Cheryl (New York collective) at a Video Jam event on the island. This was their first public performance.

Context

We use tapes, screaks, muzak n' majick to explore our sense of disgust and horror and embrace the transcendental. Our films, objects and physicality are as important as the sound. We intend to utilise

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artist queer show 4 Rachael Field

Rachael field in action at bollox photo by mark harris

Rachael Field is a creative artist who finds collaborating with others producing art her favourite metier. Field has recently been artist in residence at Bollox presenting Miss Field's Painting Parlour which provided free painterly expression for herself and others - just don't throw around her UV paint! She will be artist is residence at this month's Cha Cha Boudoir and invites you to come along and put war paint on the Queens as she paints the live drag acts. The works for Queer4 are two panorama photos of Bollox and show her love of Manchester's vibrant Queer night life being transient , transcendental...and full of inspiring Trannies....

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artist queer show 4 Sonny J Barker

Sonny J. Barker

After graduating from Manchester School of Art where I studied an Interactive Arts degree I have concentrated on hard-edged and paper based collage.  I am interested in the banalities of modern life and appropriating found materials within my work.

  I am a member of a recently formed studio that is situated on Lincoln Square called Grumpy Studios, which is located within a disused office block.  This studio is only temporarily available which suits my artistic aesthetics.

  The work that I am involved with at the moment involves isolating corporate jargon and re-presenting what is found into what I call ‘Corporate Succinct Poetry’.  I am attempting to elevate what is considered banal into something sublime.

http://organicrobotix.blogspot.co.uk

[email protected]

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artist queer show 4 Rosanne Robertson

Rosanne Robertson

is an artist working with action, sound, objects and moving image. Rosanne was selected by Doodlebug as an emerging live artist and ‘provocateur’ of Manchester for Dazed Digital- the online home of magazine Dazed and Confused http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/14117/1/doodlebug-selects-rosanne-robertson . Her recent residency project   ‘Risk Assessment’  for the Whisper Residency at The Chinese Arts Centre was featured by Corridor 8 and shows current explorations into risk and gender. 

For Queer Show 4 Rosanne will open her studio up as 'Such A Queer Noise' and host a number of sound/noise/experimental projects including her her new work for the show 'She V Machine' in which she battles the voice against grinding, metal and noise. Other artists to perform in Suite 1 include Gary Fisher, Louise Woodcock, 2 Koi Karp. (all artists profiles can be viewed separately on the site.)  

www.rosannerobertson.com

www.rosannerobertson.tumblr.com

www.twitter.com/r0sanner

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artist queer show 4 debbie sharp

debbie sharp

a conceptual artist based in the northwest of England

an actionist

thinker

doer

co-founder of the penthouse artist studios and project space 

http://thepenthousenq.com/

and the instigator/curator of the queer show 

debbie will be producing new works for the show

as well as performing in the queer noise room along side other artists 

http://debbie-sharp.com/

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artist queer show 4 homosexual death drive

homosexual death drive

manchester perview of

temple of the butthole

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artist queer show 4 Coral Short

Coral Short was born on a beautiful island off the west coast of Canada and was raised near a lively river in the countryside where her eccentric family lived off the land. She spends a fair amount of time dispersing her magic around the globe in the air, on railroad tracks and highways. Short has many beloved people, communities, and locations that she calls home. Since the inception of her artistic career, she has instinctually been drawn to projects that are collaborative and collective in nature. Currently she resides in Montreal.

www.coralshort.com

a selection of corals films will be screened at this event 

Lesbian Hand Gestures,

it was just an accident,

optimism of the will (music by Alexis O'hara)

we dont want to Marry,  made with Mascha Nehis