DWOW

Sound Work by Madsen Minax For this DWOW Madsen will perform "light wake (as opposed to heavy wave)" music about leaving and being left. Minax was born and raised in rural Northern Michigan and received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005 and an MFA from Northwestern University in 2012. Currently, Minax is a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX and a member of the DiverseWorks Artist Board. For more information about Minax, visit his web site. Madsen makes media-based works drawing upon notions of be/longing and the politics of dis/identification and desire. He approaches the medium through interests in science fiction, fantasy, dreams, erotics, and social justice to address a series of binaries: the slippage between erotics and violence, consent and violation, youth and adult, male and female, attraction and repulsion, inception and termination.  

Hans Scheirl's Dandy Dust (1998) presented by Artist Board Member Madsen Minax Hans Scheirl produced, wrote and directed this experimental British-Austrian avant-garde science-fiction fantasy about a "split-personality cyborg of fluid gender" -- Dandy Dust (played by Scheirl), who lives in an artificially created environment. Dandy's memory has been wiped out, but s/he still has flashbacks about a childhood of sexual perversion on the Planet of Blood and Swelling. Director Scheirl combines a variety of film techniques and formats -- fast-motion, black-and-white and color, animation (stop-motion, cut-out, clay, digital), Super 8mm, miniatures, tinted images, and frozen frames -- in a final video transfer to 16mm. Running time: 94 mins

Join us for an enlightening and lively discussion about gender, identity, and sexuality, with three respected and diverse voices from the field: Cymene Howe, Deb Murphy, and Kristian Salinas - presented in conjunction with our current exhibition, Wu Tsang: Moved by the Motion. Cymene Howe is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and core faculty in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Rice University. Professor Howe’s research and publications have focused on gender and sexual rights activism, media interventions and sexual subjectivity in the United States and Latin America. She is the author of "Intimate Activism: Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua" (Duke University Press, 2013) and co-editor of the volume, "21st Century Sexualities: Contemporary Issues in Health, Education, and Rights" (Routledge, 2007). Deb Murphy is the Youth Services Specialist at HATCH YOUTH. Murphy has worked with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT) and questioning youth since May 2002. While with HATCH, Murphy helped build the program into a nationally recognized model for other GLBTQ youth groups. Murphy has served hundreds and hundreds of teenagers through HATCH and thousands of teenagers through the HATCH website. Kristian Salinas, Board President & Artistic Director, Qfest. Salinas served on Qfest’s […]

Winifred a new play by Alva Hascall, with Tek Wilson and Cyrus Moshrefi Winifred features guns, cigarettes, opera, cursing, Nazis, scatology, and an amusing pile of steaming maternal manipulation. A British orphan, given in marriage to Richard Wagner’s homosexual son, Winifred was a friend of Adolph Hitler. She was also director of Wagner’s Festspielhaus Theater and a savior of artists, gypsies, homosexuals and Jews. She is a complex character. This theatrical excerpt explores her status as a heroine and victim of Germany’s revisionist history. This is the first time Winifred will be performed in front of an audience, with a talk back afterwards. Please note: blank gunshots fired and cigarettes smoked during the performance.

DiverseWorks on Wednesdays returns this week with two great events:Screening: Keren Cytter's Rose Garden, 2014 Digital HD video, color/sound 8:57 minA tragic story takes place in a Texan bar. Its drastic course and the lightness of the composition oppose each other contrapuntally. A virtually musical arrangement is formed by the repetitive employment of various elements (theme music, changing atmospheres, rifle shots). The therein presented, almost emotionless, acceptance of death is contrasted by the narrative of a father speaking to his son. Rose Garden explicitly criticizes the bigot mixture of family values, American gun laws, and societal behavioral patterns in general. Rose Garden was shot in Houston and features an all-star Houston cast including Winch Eagleton, Sara Gaston, Chris Hutchison, OTIS IKE, Nick Meriwether, Emily Peacock, John Grmillian, Wayne Gilbert, and Jim Hatchett. Directed by Keren Cytter; Produced by Ivete Lucas; Special Effects by Jack Burn; and Weapons by Pat Henderson. ________________________ Pecha Kucha with Luck of the Draw Artists: June Woest Earl Staley Penny Cerling Frank Sherwood White Eva Maria Lourdes Martinez Rosine Kouamen Hiyme Brummett Kay Sarver Each artist will show images and talk about their work in a fast-paced, fun environment. ________________________ DiverseWorks on Wednesdays is sponsored in part […]