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To celebrate the North America Outgames in Vancouver this summer, the Queer Arts Festival has chosen Games People Play as its theme for 2011.

Queer cultures often emphasize elements of game-play: from camp to butch/femme to strictures of “straight looking/straight acting”, we play around with identity and its shadows of artifice, passing and trespassing. The curators are encouraging artists to queer the idea of games and play: board games, bored games, war games, mind games, drinking games, parlor games, gender games, games theory, game shows, word play, gun play, foreplay, BDSM play, playing the fool, playing by ear, playing along, playing around, playing for the team, playback, playmates, team sports, blood sport, water sports… With this exuberance of possibilities we will build a show of divergent investigations; a game for viewers to trace commonalities and conflicts along the through-line of gaming.

‘Maturity means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.’ -Friedrich Nietzsche
Curated by Persimmon Blackbridge, SD Holman and Jeff Gibson.
Artists

Garth Amundson

Patricia Atchison

Kathy Atkins

Dana Ayotte

Angelina Cantada

Rodrigo Cervantes Ramirez

Jen Crothers and !Kona

Amy Dame

Adrian Fehr

Kimberley French

Pierre Gour

Afuwa Granger

Charlotte Hewson

Suzo Hickey

Abegael Jackson

Lizard Jones aka Emma Kivasild

Tillie King

Dzee Louise

Mark McGregor

Steve Middleton

Rosamond Norbury

Sarah Race

Naufus Ramirez-Figuieroa

Sakino Sepulveda

Wendy Sexsmith

Noel Silver

Suzy Stroet

Oscar Sanchez