2021: Dispersed
It’s not easy being green

Curated by Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour + SD Holman

QAF shows artists upcycling & recycling apocalyptic fear & dread into art & social change. Green symbolizes not only our relationship to each other & the lands we occupy, but also difference & marginalization, exemplified by popular culture green underdogs Elphaba the Wicked Witch of the West & Rainbow Connection, Kermit the Frog. It’s not easy being green, fighting for a world that consistently rejects us. With imminent climate catastrophe upon us, we witness the world grappling with the end times, but when were the queered privy to life outside the apocalypse? 

Green is the complex terrain of extended kinship ties of Indigiqueer/two-spirit and queer settlers. Green spectrals haunt the hyphened margins of the subaltern; enduring perpetually frequent gaslighting(s) of post-traumatic settler-colonial and concurrent disorders. Together/apart WE endure our own private apocalyptics. Cataclysmic temporal end-points that exist as seemingly fixed and an unavoidable global terminus – from which Indigiqueer/queer resurgence erupts relentlessly into the ongoing colonial.

QAF shows artists cast as see-ers/oracles/alchemists upcycling/rebranding/reclaiming/transgressing/transforming apocalyptic visions towards queer utopic landscapes, transmuting fear, dread and a collective broken heart of forced disslocations with departures and arrivals, using art as transformative praxis and practice towards social and spiritual metamorphoses.


2021 Events

Sun Oct 24 | 5pm Transdisciplinary music performance | Mountain View Cemetery
Sat July 24 | 7- 10 pm Festival Opening | SUM & Sun Wah 268 Keefer

QAF 2021 dispersed:

it's not easy being greenJul 24 - Aug 13, 2021QAF shows artists upcycling & recycling apocalyptic...
Sat Jul 24 - Fri Aug 13, from 12 – 6pmVisual Art Exhibition | Sun Wah 268 Keefer, Lower Ground Floor
Sat Jul 24- Fri Aug 13 Sonic Installation | around False Creek & Online Language as a Virus: Queer...
Mon Jul 26 | 5 pmAudio Art Tour | Roundhouse Community Arts Centre RoundaboutJoin artist Bobbi Kozinuk in an exploration of her work, Language as a Virus: Queer Isolation Stories. Language as...
Tue Jul 27, 5pm Visual Art Tour | Sun Wah 268 Keefer, Lower Ground FloorCome together for our Visual Art Tour of our exhibition it's not easy being green, with the curators...
Sat Jul 31 | 9 pmMedia Art Screening | SUM & Sun Wah 268 Keefer RooftopCurated by QAF Associate Artistic Director Fergie and Programs Coordinator...
Mon Aug 2 | 8 pmLiterary Readings | SUM & Sun Wah 268 Keefer RooftopCurated by Josie Boyce, slip into a...
Sat Aug 7 | 8 pm Dance and Music Performance | Mountain View Cemetery*NEW* ONLINE | Tue Aug 10 | 24 hours
Fri Aug 13 | 7 - 10pm Closing Party | SUM & Sun Wah 268 Keefer Rooftop Join us for the festival closing with DJ O Show and your last chance to see all the art...
Sat Jul 24 - Fri Aug 13 Community Art Showcase | OnlineThe digital culmination of the Kindred Spirits digital artist residency run by and for 2Spirit and Indigiqueer artists. Guided by Faculty members
Sat July 24 - Fri Aug 13, daily from 12 – 6pmVisual Art | SUM & Sun Wah 268 Keefer, 4th Floor
Wed Jul 28 | 7:30 pmWorkshop | SUM gallery or OnlineFalak Vasa leads us in a...
Thu Aug 5 & Fri Aug 6 | 7pm Workshop | Online"Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."~ JBS Haldane in his 1927 essay,...
Phase 1 of Mass Reincarnation of Wish Fragments 願片大量転生 (Ganhen Tairyou Tensei)Workshop | Wed Aug 4, 6pm | SUM gallery & Online With Artists:
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