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The above slide show is from our 2011 festival, Stay tuned for 2012 festival information coming soon!
The Queer Art Festival is a multidisciplinary arts festival held in Vancouver BC Canada.
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Queer Arts Festival 2012: RaNDoM acTS oF QueeRNeSS
July 31 to August 18, 2012 at the Roundhouse (Pacific and Davie)
‘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 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.”
Cage’s multidisciplinary artistic practice, experimental approach, and openly queer life elegantly exemplify QAF’s mandate and values. For this year’s theme QAF curators encourage artists to explore indeterminate elements in their work, whether it be Indeterminacy of Process, Indeterminacy of form or Indeterminacy of identity- perhaps risking the effects of random juxtaposition. Cage used strategies such as the I Ching, random radio stations and putting odd objects inside of pianos as methods of creating indeterminate music. What kinds of systems, symbols or strategies will they harness?
Curated by multidisciplinary artist Persimmon Blackbridge, painter Jeff Gibson, and QAF Artistic Director, photo-based artist SD Holman.
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