Tour Information

In these times of never ending wars, fence post lynching, and the continuing HIV/AIDS genocide; violence and its relationship to queerness seems to ask for urgent attention. The disappearance of critical work around HIV/AIDS that was central to the making of a radical queer politic forces us to reimagine the importance of visual culture in our contemporary. Our Queer/Violence program seeks to recenter questions around violence and queers as
a political project. From resisting war through an anarchist critique of the State, reading the histories of the Holocaust and the AIDS genocide to produce productive gaps of meaning to visualizing the States of total war trans and queer folks live and die through, Queer/ Violence provokes, instigates and explores queer (un)doing..

The Queer/Violence tour is a mixed media extravaganza. The presentation will open with a short artist talk about both the state of current queer cinema and also the larger state of LGBT politics. The connection between HIV/AIDS, queer violence and the politics of assimilation in the dominant GLBT moment serve as the provocative place of departure the film makers stage for the audience. The screening is comprised of the Maggots and Men (2006 Oakie Tredwell) trailer, By Any Means Necessary (1994james Wentsiy), Mentalitet (2001 Stefan Orlandic Stojanovski) and Homotopia(2006 Chris Vargas, Eric Stanley). Following the screening, space will then be allotted for questions and conversation around both the films as well as larger question of, HIV/AIDS gay marriage, trans-liberation or
anything else. The entirety of the event is about 1 1/2 hours.