Re: Telic Arts Exchange: Queer Performance / Video

Los Angeles: Telic Arts Exchange: http://www.telic.info

"Porca Miseria" by Lee Adams will be screening at the Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles on Saturday 22nd September. 2:00pm - 3:00pm in a queer performance video programme curated by Robert Summers

Also screening are videos by SUPERM (Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny), Vaginal Davis, and others.

Theme of the curated event by Robert Summers: "Showing Shame: Shameless Showing"

The selected videos show various enactments of the artists and/or their friends performing themselves in acts of shame. With regard to "queer" subjectivity and shame, I draw on the work of Eve Sedgwick who argues that shame can be understood in relation to "queer" – as she pointedly states, "queer" is a term that "might usefully be thought of as referring in the first place to [persons who are tied to shame] … those whose sense of identity is for some reason tuned most durably to the note of shame”. But, I argue that even though there is shame there is also the shameless, it is never far behind, which I think is important to examine in relation to "queer/-ness" – which would push Sedgwick's argument. Indeed, I see no reason to disconnect shame from shameless – after all they are but a suffix apart. All in all, I hope these films show something valuable: I hope they show something shame/less.

Telic Arts Exchange
975 Chung King Road
Chinatown, Los Angeles
http://www.telic.info