NIKOLAI URSIN, BEHIND EVERY GOOD MAN, 1967
Produced several years before the historic Stonewall uprising for LGBTQ rights in 1969, director Nikolai Ursin's gently-activist short Behind Every Good Man (c. 1967) provides an illuminating glimpse into the life of an African-American trans woman…
RAMELL ROSS, SOUTH COUNTY, AL (A HALE COUNTY), 2012
Having lived, worked, and photographed in Hale County, Alabama, for almost ten years, RaMell Ross has produced a series of quietly powerful photographs—South County, AL (a Hale County)—that meditate on the myths of blackness in the American South…
JULIANA HUXTABLE, THERE ARE CERTAIN FACTS THAT CANNOT BE DISPUTED, 2015
Artist, writer, and nightlife impresario Juliana Huxtable presents her new performance There Are Certain Facts that Cannot Be Disputed, co-commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art and Performa, which highlights her evocative use of language and written text…
GILLIAN WEARING, 2 INTO 1, 1997
The short video projection 2 into 1 (1997) features a mother and her twin sons talk about each other, one generation lip-synching the dubbed words of the other…
JEN DENIKE, FLAG GIRLS, 2007
Jen DeNike's video Flag Girls features six women wrapped in hand-sewn flags. As the video loop plays, the women unwrap themselves to reveal their nude bodies…
LORRAINE O’GRADY, BODY IS THE GROUND OF MY EXPERIENCE
BodyGround, shorthand for Body Is the Ground of My Experience, refers to the photomontages produced by O’Grady for her first one-person exhibit, at INTAR Gallery, NYC, Jan 21–Feb 22, 1991…
TINA TAKEMOTO, LOOKING FOR JIRO, 2011
Looking for Jiro is a queer meditation on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II…
TOURMALINE, ATLANTIC IS A SEA OF BONES, 2017
Atlantic is a Sea of Bones is a short film drawing from the Lucille Clifton poem of the same name that follows Egyptt LaBejia, an NYC based performer through the 80s, 90s, and 2000's in NYC…
XANDRA IBARRA, SPICTACLE II: LA TORTILLERA, 2014
La Tortillera was developed as a live performance in 2004. The performance was later archived for camera in 2014. In Spictacle II: La Tortillera takes on her own racial bondage to hot sauce, tacos, and demographic panic in “Tortillera”…
VALIE EXPORT, GENITAL PANIC
Genitalpanik (Genital Panic) is a series of photographs and posters that emerged from an action VALIE EXPORT performed in Munich in 1968…
STORAGE GALLERY, VALUE OF PORN PANEL DISCUSSION
Storage Gallery and artist Barbara Nitke host a roundtable discussing the Value of Porn with panelists…
JOIRI MINAYA, THE CLOAKING SERIES
The Cloaking series challenges the presence of colonial statues in urban spaces, using colorful spandex fabric to conceal and simultaneously bring attention to these monuments, questioning which narratives get memorialized and which are omitted…
BARBARA HAMMER, SUPERDYKE, 1975
Superdyke is a gem from early liberation days. Influenced by feminism and lesbian militancy, Hammer’s films are politically pointed, bearing witness to lesbian empowerment and visibility, and formally sophisticated, fully cognizant of experimental film history…
PEGGY AHWESH, PHILOSOPHY IN THE BEDROOM, 1993
A home-movie paean to the Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Bedroom plumbs the depths of boudoir small talk. In the first part, a newly-acquainted odd couple discuss desire—and lack thereof—over a bag of potato chips. In the second part, a recumbent woman describes her partner and herself as "the John and Yoko of the '90s."…
SABELO MLANGENI, THE ROYAL HOUSE OF ALLURE
Like many cities in the world Lagos is a city of extremes. Individuals who fit into the mould of heteronormativity (especially those protected by wealth) are considered worthy of protection and celebration while others (feminised, queer and poor bodies) are rendered invisible and unworthy…
DEL LAGRACE VOLCANO, LOVE LUST & LEGACY
Love, Lust & Legacy: 40 Years of Queer Service to the Cause is the result of four decades of creating images with people who exist outside the bi-polar binaries of sex and gender…
BRUCE LABRUCE, SUPER 8½, 1994
LaBruce’s quasi-autobiographical sophomore effort tells the story of “Bruce,” a porn auteur with avant-garde ambitions…
ANDREA FRASER, UNTITLED, 2003
The central action in Untitled has Fraser and a male client of her US gallery meet for a session of sex and video recording in a New York hotel room. This is the part of the work that suggests an archetypal narrative…
CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN, FUSES, 1964-67
Fuses was made as an homage to a relationship of ten years—to a man with whom I lived and worked as an equal. We are perceived through the eyes of our cat…
LINDA TROELLER, TB-AIDS DIARY
The careful assemblage of personal images and texts that make up Linda Troeller's TB-AIDS Diary confronts the social stigma of disease in a manner that is at once gentle and uncompromising…