Homotopia :: Criminal Queers :: Eric Stanley :: Chris Vargas

Homotopia returns!

eric — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:13:51 +0000

Have you been wanting to see Homotopia but have never gotten the chance? Well, we are excited to report that there will be two screening in October. The first of these will be in Richmond, VA at a place called The Wingnut Anarchist Collective. The screening is on Sunday October 23 at 7pm, its free so people should check it out. Also, here is the event page if you do that kinda thing.(sadly, neither Chris nor i will be at this screening)

The Wingnut Anarchist Collective

2005 Barton Avenue

Richmond, Virginia

The second screening will be at NYU on Monday October 24th at 6pm. Homotopia is screening at part of their Pride Month ( better Homotopia than Dan Savage , right?). This event it also free and open to the public so bring your people. Again, an event page. (Eric and Ralowe will be there)

NYU Kimmel Center, 912

New York, New York

Also, we mentioned it before but a friend of ours started a great new blog called RADICAL FAGGOT (great name!). He wrote a piece about Criminal Queers there, you can check it out here: “Criminal Queers, Camp and Rasquache: Reimagined Aesthetics for a Reimagined Social Order“

Lastly, Homotopia just turned 5 years old!

speaking of more books

eric — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:22:22 +0000

The catalog for the show “Suggestions of a Life Being Lived” which was curated by Danny Orendorff and Adrienne Skye Roberts is now out and about. It features lots of full-color pages documenting the show which included Criminal Queers, Falling in love..with Chris and Greg, Jason Fritz’s drawing along with lots of other good stuff. Get yourself a copy of Suggestions of a Life Being Lived: A Queer Exploration of Three Public Themes. (yes amazon is evil, but the gallery does not have it up yet)

books, books and more books

eric — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:32:21 +0000

Chris has designed the cover for the new Against Equality book coming out in October. This anthology, Against Equality: Don’t Ask to Fight Their Wars, is edited by Ryan Conrad and challenges the current movement fighting to allow gay and lesbian folks to serve in the military (they are also trying to raise some money for the project, if you have any extra check this out). Also, the anthology I co-edited, Captive Gender: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex will be out in August on AK Press,. There will be a book launch on September 8th, 2011 at 7pm at Modern Times bookstore in San Francisco (and many more after, so keep a lookout). Captive Genders would be a great book to read before or after watching Criminal Queers. Speaking of CQ, we are booking some screenings/talks for the fall and winter, hit us up if you wanna bring us to your town. The interview that the amazing folks in Kingston, ON (Kym Nacita and DJ Fraz) did with us it now archived, so you can listen to it here. Also, if you are interested in teaching Homotopia get your library to contact us about institutional sales, then it will be archived forever. I have visions of a student looking in the DVD archive 20 years from now and finding Homotopia and wonder what it is, and wondering what DVDs were.

Homotopia at Queeriot 2011

eric — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:43:59 +0000

Here is the 411:

Time: 8 PM July 10, 2011

Location: AKA Social Centre (75 Queen Street) Kingston, ON

Still in town? Join us for a relaxing evening of amazing short films, popcorn and cuddles. We’re really fortunate to be able to show three fantastic short films…

FAT Margaret Donahoe
WANT Loree Erickson
HOMOTOPIA Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas

For more info go here.

Homotopia in Saint Catharines, Ontario

eric — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:04:25 +0000

On Monday June 27th at 7:30 pm Queer Action Niagara will be showing Homotopia.

OPIRG info shop

10 Summer Street

St. Cathaarines, ON

Its free, check it out if you are out and about!

we love the queers of Kingston, ON

eric — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:38:34 +0000

Some amazing folks in Kingston, ON (Canada) recently interviewed us as part of their special pride day event. The day-long program also featured Queer youth in Kingston, The Lost Bois, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Scott Wilson, Kenji Tokawa, Alexis Mitchell, and Scott Morgensen. Its five hours of fun, you can listen to it archived here. (the show aired 6/15/2011) Also, if you happen to be in Kingston this summer, check out Queeriot which is according to them, “Queeriot 2011 is a radical convergence in Kingston from July 8-10 to bring queers together across lines of difference. Kingston is home to multiple prisons, a military base, and an elitist university. It is also the birthplace of the white supremacist, colonial nation called Canada. We’re calling on queers to cum together to disrupt this shit. Our skills, knowledge and bodies are weapons in this fight.” Check them out here. I believe they will be screening Homotopia there so keep an eye out for that.

Criminal Queers at Stanford

eric — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:31:34 +0000

We will be talking/ screening at Stanford University on Tuesday May 24, 2011 at 6pm! The event will be at the Stanford LGBT Center, 433 Santa Teresa St, Stanford, CA. Thanks to Stanford Students for Queer Liberation for putting this together!

Don’t forget Chris’ MFA show on Friday May 20, 2011 – June 26, 2011 at the Berkeley Art Museum, Museum, 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720

Also, Chris’ new film will be screening as part of Retelling Stories: Sick Films, on Thursday, May 26 7:00pm at the ATA 922 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA. $6. This program is organized by Jason Fritz Michael, Eric Stanley and Margaret Tedesco. More info is here.

big news

eric — Mon, 09 May 2011 04:57:02 +0000

Chris is about to finish his MFA!!! His new film, Liberaceón, which he says is ” a three-channel video installation with a 16 minute narrative at its center wherein I perform as the late great showman himself, Liberace!” It will be off the chain, go see it!! Here is the info for the show:

Opening Reception

Friday, May 20th, 2011, 6:30-7:30pm

Inarguably Uncertain: The 41st Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

May 20, 2011 – June 26, 2011
Berkeley Art Museum, Museum Lobby
2626 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94720

If you want to see it again (we know you will) Liberaceón will be showing in conjunction with Necrocapital: AIDS in the Age of Surplus Value, an installation Jason Fritz (AKA Joy) and I (AKA Eric Stanley) are doing at the ATA in San Francisco, CA. The film program, “Retelling Stories” will include work by MATT WOLF, MIKE KUCHAR and Chris Vargas and will be on Thursday, May 26, 2011, 7:00 pm, $6.

Homotopia in Houston, TX!

eric — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:07:21 +0000

We are back from tour, thanks to everyone that organized events and came to screenings. We had much fun, ate some good cake, and conspired with some amazing folks! In horribly un-shocking news, have you seen what the TX House is up to now? They have just OKed a bill that will mandate schools that spend money of “LGBT education” to have equal funding available to “family and traditional values” education as if public education is not already “family and traditional values” education (AKA hetero-settler-colonial-realness) . In better news, the first ever Houston Anarchist Book Fair will be the weekend of April 23-24 and they will be screening Homotopia around 8pm on Saturday the 23, 2011 check it out if you are in TX.

On the road

eric — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:58:25 +0000

We are out in the world showing Criminal Queers and Homotopia, meeting some nice people and eating some amazing cake ! Check out the update from Chris’ blog here. Tomorrow we are off to Queen’s University in Kingston, ON, then we end Monday night with our friends in Ottawa.

photo by Chris Vargas