Hey, I missed this panel in which the prof. will be talking with bruce Labruce and a few others on the topic The Death of Queer Art. Other than people this is probably the first thing to happen in LA since I left that I really wish I was there for. The longer description is:
Is there a price for our deepening embrace by the mainstream? Do acceptance and assimilation spell cultural sameness or even obliteration? As we become more “respectable,” are we tempted to sanitize queer sex? Will our once outlaw/outsider status and the ocean of art it inspired evolve into something just as powerful? Or are LGBT people - and the culture that reflects us - becoming the victims of our own success? This panel of brilliant and outspoken LGBT artists and cultural critics considers the implications for queer art-making and audiences.
Moderator: Stephen Gutwillig (Executive Director, Outfest)
Shari Frilot (filmmaker; programmer, Sundance Film Festival), Bruce LaBruce (filmmaker, HUSTLER WHITE, THE RASPBERRY REICH), Eve Oishi (curator; professor, CSU Long Beach), José Esteban Muñoz (filmmaker; professor, New York University), John Rechy (author, City of Night, The Sexual Outlaw)
It takes place next saturday, july 17th at 2:30 pm at the DGA (directors guild, if my L-gay memory serves me correctly). I absolutly urge anyone who is in Los Angeles and has a role in art (queer or not) to attend this really important event.
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