| FULL 2012 EVENT LISTING COMING MAY 31
The Queer Arts Festival is a 3 week multidisciplinary arts festival held in Vancouver, BC, Can. |
Queer Arts Festival 2012 theme: RaNDoM acTS oF QueeRNeSS
‘Chance comes in here to give us the unknown.’ – John Cage
To celebrate the centenary of experimental queer artist John Cage (1912-1992), the Queer Arts Festival has chosen Random Acts of Queerness as its theme for 2012. A composer, writer and visual artist who also collaborated extensively with his life partner the renowned choreographer Merce Cunningham, Cage is best known for championing Indeterminancy: a philosophy that opens up artistic practice to include the random as a way of radically breaking free from tradition, convention, and habit.
Cage’s multidisciplinary artistic practice, experimental approach, and openly queer life elegantly exemplify QAF’s mandate and values. He said, “Indeterminacy in art is made not as an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living.”
Tickets go on sale July 1 at Little Sister’s, and online at brownpapertickets.com
QAF Art Party 2011 – Video by Angelina Cantata
