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Members and non-members are welcome to join us for our annual business meeting. We will recap this year’s CAA Panel, elect Co-Chairs for the coming year, and open the floor to the public.
The link for the business meeting is here
Update Your Membership here: https://queercaucusforart.org/donate
How do exhibitions happen? Creatives who work within Black and queer traditions cultivate relationships that can trespass and transcend the highly networked conduits of access in the museum, gallery, or university space. This roundtable focuses on the contours of what it means to “know people,” those quotidian, lifelong, messy, empathic, embarrassing, hard truths of how artists, curators, and writers come to collaborate. The Queer & Trans Caucus for Art will host a discussion between pairings of artists, curators, and writers in an attempt to reveal, process, and ask real questions about what it means to engage in collaborative practices both within and beyond the exhibition space. These stories will engage formal and informal practices that range from studio visits to conference presentations to late nights out. This roundtable generates conversations that de-mystify the opaqueness of the art world, which cultivates and records the myriad ways artists, curators, collectors, and scholars build communities despite impediments of access. We reveal the labor and support networks that sustain Black artists via deliberately queer practices that trouble normative frameworks of access, kinship, and the hierarchical forms of power within these institutions.
The panel will be co-moderated by Danny Dunson (art historian, advisor, curator, and writer, presently at DuSable Museum) and Dr. Sampada Aranke (Assistant Professor in the Art History, Theory, Criticism Department at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago). Roundtable discussants include Derrick Woods Morrow (Chicago-based artist, scholar, deviant, and activist) and Dr. Leslie Wilson (Associate Director, Academic Engagement and Research at the Art Institute of Chicago).
The online schedule defaults to show all item times adjusted to your current time zone. You may view times in Chicago, IL (CST) time by selecting as directed on the schedule page. All sessions will be live in Zoom from February 17-19 and March 3-5, 2022. To join virtual sessions, go to the session you wish to attend in the online schedule; shortly before the scheduled start time, registrants will see a "Join Now" button next to the session title. Clicking this button will give you access to the session. The virtual Book and Trade Fair exhibits will also be accessible via the online schedule.
RECORDED CONTENT
Access to recorded content, according to your registration type, will be available to registrants 72 hours after the component closes and until 11:59 p.m. EST, April 14, 2022. Additional information will be added to our resources page in the online schedule as the conference approaches. To view recorded content, after the component dates, click the title of the session or presentation you would like to view. Each session/presentation page will display its unique videos.
Here is the link to the TRIVIA NIGHT AND RAFFLE:
Members and non-members are welcome to join us for our annual business meeting. We will recap this year’s CAA Panel, elect Co-Chairs for the coming year, and open the floor to the public.
The link for the business meeting is here
Update Your Membership here: https://queercaucusforart.org/donate
"Restricted movements: Queer Embodiments, Performance, and limitations as choreography
Precarious, unstable, uncertain, and shifting terrain remains concrete in the ways that LGBTQ+ folx gather. Given recent events that have re-organized social and spatial configurations, where the movements of bodies have become confined in place and distant from others, this panel continues queer sensibilities of performance, choreography, and performativities as part of our post-pandemic moment. With mandates to remain physically distant reshaping how we gather and make space for each other, we are poised to reconsider queer placemaking, and once more, reconcile with alternative modes of relationality. What kinds of intimacies, frequencies, and registers foster or take up ways of coming together? How do artists, performers, and cultural practitioners look to queer epistemologies to care for marginalized, QTBIPOC, and other communities made vulnerable in a continued time of loss, again? As we contemplate this moment, we invite work and scholarship that considers new pivot points, new axes, and new and different forms of bodily impact that have emerged within queer performance and performative projects.
Chair, alejandro t. acierto
PANELISTS:
TBD, Dr. Roy Perez
Queering the Museum Nayland Blake's Curatorial Practice
Erin Riley-Lopez, Tyler School of Art Temple University
Laura Aguilar's Spectacular Self-Objectification: Mestiza Opacity and the Archive Prosthetic
Jay Buchanan, Washington University in St. Louis
You are cordially invited to submit proposals for the annual 2021 CAA conference in New York next year. As a CAA Affiliated Society, Queer Caucus for Art will host a 90-minute session during the Annual Conference. See info about the conference here.
To submit, please send a 250-word descriptions of your panel idea, including organizer bio(s). Preference is given for proposals for Sessions Soliciting Contributors but Complete Sessions will be considered. Also, see below for CAA's suggested content focus this year.*
Please submit proposals no later than Wednesday, April 27 2020 to the QCA officers at qcaofficers@gmail.com.
*FROM CAA:
As part of the 2021 Annual Conference, CAA seeks to offer a selection of sessions, papers, speakers, and related programming on the topic of Climate Crisis. Including but going beyond eco-art and eco-criticism, and with climate justice and intersectional thinking as priorities, panels and presentations can address ecology as a matter of the content of artworks, but also, and pressingly, how we--artists, designers, and art historians, institutional stakeholders and independent practitioners, and members of allied fields--can and should change our professional practices in light of the crisis. We invite discussions of creative interventions into the status quo, up to and including a serious discussion of ways of reducing the carbon footprint of the annual conference itself, while preserving and enhancing access. Practices and themes may include remediation and amelioration, thematic representation and critique, the ramifications of change for institutions and collections, issues of preservation, and the nature of research. We invite radical and practical proposals. The conference content will stress a broad and inclusive conversation on climate crisis impact through the lens of age; gender; nationality; race; religion; and socioeconomic status among others.
Queer Caucus for Art Annual Happy Hour
8:30 pm (QPT) to 10:30 pm (QPT)
Big Chicks Bar
5024 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60640
Co-curated by members of the Queer Caucus for Art of the College Art Association & Risa Puleo
POROUS Gallery
Columbia College Chicago 623 S Wabash Ave, 4th Fl, Rm 411
Opening Reception
February 14th, 6 – 8 PM
Artists: Mark Aguhar, Sky Cubacub, Oscar Chavez, Sarah Zapata
Pushing up against a singular codification of queerness, In the Teeth of Empire draws upon the multiplicity of queer orientations often framed by the conditions and histories of heteronormative settler violence. Parallel to the work outlined by anthropologist Audra Simpson and Indigenous and queer studies scholar Mark Rifkin, queer bodies have often been marked as different from settler colonial frameworks that have shaped normative ways of being. While the language of refusal has often been employed as a strategy for self-determination within conditions of exclusion, queer bodies have needed to exist within and in spite of these heteronormative structures.
In particular, trans*, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming bodies have historically troubled the ways queer identity formations have been narrativized, making a mess of the language, discourse, and visual remnants of those experiences. While heteronormative structures have historically attempted to coerce queer bodies from recognition based around tropes of difference, this exhibition In the Teeth of Empire uses the specificity of experiences that begin to enable more inclusive and complex sensibilities of being – where a multiplicity of orientations disrupt singularizing these narratives.
Co-curated by members of the Queer Caucus for Art of the College Art Association & Risa Puleo
POROUS Gallery
Columbia College Chicago 623 S Wabash Ave, 4th Fl, Rm 411
Reception
February 14th, 6 – 8 PM
Artists: Mark Aguhar, Sky Cubacub, Oscar Chavez, Sarah Zapata
Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level, Continental B 720 S Michigan Ave
February 14, 4 – 5:30 PM
Moderator: Thea Quiray Tagle PhD
Panelists: Sky Cubacub, Joshua Chambers-Letson PhD, Andrew Gayed
Pushing up against a singular codification of queerness, In the Teeth of Empire draws upon the multiplicity of queer orientations often framed by the conditions and histories of heteronormative settler violence. Parallel to the work outlined by anthropologist Audra Simpson and Indigenous and queer studies scholar Mark Rifkin, queer bodies have often been marked as different from settler colonial frameworks that have shaped normative ways of being. While the language of refusal has often been employed as a strategy for self-determination within conditions of exclusion, queer bodies have needed to exist within and in spite of these heteronormative structures.
In particular, trans*, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming bodies have historically troubled the ways queer identity formations have been narrativized, making a mess of the language, discourse, and visual remnants of those experiences. While heteronormative structures have historically attempted to coerce queer bodies from recognition based around tropes of difference, this exhibition In the Teeth of Empire uses the specificity of experiences that begin to enable more inclusive and complex sensibilities of being – where a multiplicity of orientations disrupt singularizing these narratives.
Friday, February 14, 12 pm in Continental Room B.
Hilton Chicago, 720 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL
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