The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Announces Call for Queer Theatre and Performance Residency
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The Museum's Queer Theatre and Performance Residency for Emerging Artists is devoted to incubating the talents of early-career artists in the LGBTQ community who specialize in performance.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 18, 2020
ANNOUNCEMENT OF RECIPIENTS: April 1, 2020
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The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Queer Theatre and Performance Residency for Emerging Artists intends to advance the nature and discourse of queer theory through experimental work. Selected artists will have an interest in expanding the concept of identity past current boundaries. Through multiple disciplines and genres, residents will create art of expansive vision and effort. Past residents include Cristina Pitter, Camilo Godoy, Peter Smith, and Kevin Quiles Bonilla. Proposals that integrate a discussion of queer aesthetics and politics are particularly encouraged.
“Experimental performance is a cornerstone of queer art practice and one which our Museum intends to support fully,” said Executive Director Gonzalo Casals. “We are interested in building a program that supports artists’ careers not only by showing their work, but also by helping them to produce it.”
Curated by Zachary Small (Associate editor, investigations, The Art Newspaper) and Daniel J Sander (Assistant Curator, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art), the residencies will take place in July and August. Two artists (or groups) will be selected to receive free rehearsal space in the Leslie-Lohman Project Space on Prince Street in SoHo for one month each. Additionally, they will receive access to the Museum’s archives, guidance from staff, and an artist honorarium. At the end of the residency, artists will be expected to present a work-in-progress showcase in the Project Space.
“This program is dedicated to the groundbreaking work of writers like Jill Johnston and José Estaban Muñoz who envisioned queerness as an aspiration toward the future. To be queer is to imagine better possible futures not just for one’s self, but for all peoples,” explained curator Zachary Small.
Through the program, residents will also have the opportunity to stage their projects at La MaMa, a premiere venue for experimental theater in the East Village. Details to be discussed with finalists.
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Image credits:
(Title Image) Peter Smith’s DIANA, 2019. Photo: © Dee Williams/Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.
Robert Giard, Arthur Tress as Muse of Photography, 1978. Silver gelatin print, 1980. 14 x 14 in. Courtesy Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. © Estate of Robert Giard.
JEB (Joan E. Biren), BEING SEEN MAKES A MOVEMENT POSSIBLE, QUEERPOWER facade Installation. Courtesy Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. Photo: (c) Kristine Eudey, 2019.
Charles Henri Ford, untitled Poem Poster, 1964, Offset print (Printer: Vassily Papachrysanthou), 39.375 x 27.625 in. Image courtesy of Indra Tamang, Executor, Charles Henri Ford Artistic Estate.
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