Queer Arts Festival Visual Exhibition Catalogues hard copies are available for purchase below. Scroll past the catalogue list to view the online pdfs of the catalogues.
The purchase of these catalogues helps us to continue to exhibit contemporary art and supports future Queer Arts Festival programming. Thanks for your support!
Vanishing Act: Visual Art Exhibition Catalogue
The Vanishing Act Catalogue highlights the Curatorial Visual Arts Exhibition at the 2022 Queer Arts Festival (QAF) a project of The Pride in Art Society (PiA). Adwait Singh curates a survey of queer artistic practices from the Global south and beyond. The exhibition brought forth apocalyptic revelations about radical forms of hospitality, sociality and empathy that are fed by the consciousness of a catastrophic co-becoming. The Vanishing Act Catalogue profiles the work of the contributing artists; with an introduction by Adwait Singh, foreword by creative director SD Holman, and essays by Asad Alvi, Omar Kasmani, Areez Katki, Sadia Khatri, Shayan Rajani, Syma Tariq and Sita Balani.
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It’s not easy being green:
Visual Art Exhibition Catalogue
Green. Ascribed with multiplicities such as spring’s cyclical lush green rematriation: growth, hope, vitality, balance – health … to spectrums of radioactive and toxic neons … to pestilent dark greens symbolizing mutation, jealousy, greed and wealth. Green inhabits interconnectedness, relationship with the Other, the seen and unseen, as well as the very lands and waters the West—WE—continue to occupy. This not-to-be-missed limited edition printing captures the essence of last year’s deviant, neuro-divergent, epoch and paranormal co-curatorial by Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour and SD Holman. Discover within their featured artists thematic engagement with the metaphorical trappings of the colour green and the strange pop-cultural oddities/underdog/anti-heroes that emerged from the fantastically unconventional. Featuring outstanding essayists Tejal Shah, Katherine Atkins and Pablo Muñoz whose reflections graciously support 2021’s cohort that collectively asks us to reflect upon questions such as: Was there a time of Utopic Queer being and doing? What are the implications of being privy to hauntings of another Queer apocalypse? and are/can/could WE still be vanished – at any given moment? It’s not easy being Green, indeed! Snatch your coveted copy(s) up ASAP as they are moving FAST!
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$50.00
WICKED: Visual Art Exhibition Catalogue
2020, QAF’s first festival of the pandemic era. New connections and intimacy are now mediated by requirements to shelter in place; curator Jonny Sopotiuk and visual artists critically examine our communities’ oppression and expose the implications of complicity in the homonormative systems
created to contain us.
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$40.00
Bad Girls Series: Outlander, 2011, Photography, 60 x 40 inches.
Relational rEvolutions: Visual Art Exhibition Catalogue
QAF 2019’s visual art exhibition Relational rEvolutions visual artists and curator Elwood Jimmy look toward practices and processes that move
towards generative ways of being.
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$40.00
DECADEnce: Visual Art Exhibition Catalogue
“2018 marks one Decade of Queer Arts Festival
and two Decades of Pride in Art supporting
voices and visions of fearless queer artists. Now
is the Time for us to revisit, represent and release
our marks from the archives while sharing shining
mirror-disco ball futurisms. We are time travelers,
we have been here before and will do it again.
These are our marks”
Curator: Valerie d. Walker.
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UnSettled: Visual Art Exhibition Catalogue
QAF 2017’s landmark visual art exhibition, curated by Adrian Stimson in the world’s first entirely Two-Spirit curated art festival.
“UnSettled was an exhibition I am proud to
have curated. It was a moment in time that
demonstrated the diverse community that
we are. The erasure of our history is part of
the colonial project, yet it did not destroy our
spirits, in fact it has strengthened them. As
Two-Spirited human beings we have and will
continue to play the roles we are destined for,
we are at a point in our collective history that
it is imperative to reclaim, show, educate, record,
archive and continue to unsettle the colonial
project.”
Curator: Adrian Stimson
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Drama Queer: Visual Art Exhibition Catalogue
QAF’s first visual art exhibition catalogue. Hailed by Kevin Griffin at the Vancouver Sun as “easily one of the best art exhibitions of the year” our 2016 visual art exhibition Drama Queer, curated by queer studies luminary Jonathan D. Katz and Conor Moynihan, is “an international survey of ‘queer emotion’ in contemporary art.”
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$40.00
The digital version of the It’s not easy being green: Visual Art Exhibition catalogue is available here.
The digital version of the WICKED: Visual Art Exhibition catalogue is available here.
The digital version of the rEvolutions: Visual Art Exhibition catalogue is available here.
The digital version of the DECADEnce: Visual Art Exhibition catalogue is available here.
The digital version of the UnSettled: Visual Art Exhibition catalogue is available here.
The digital version of the Drama Queer: Visual Art Exhibition catalogue is available here.