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MIXploratorium: A Queer Artist Installation and Performance Series

November 16 – December 2, 2011

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INSTALLATION LAB
Running Nov. 16th through Nov. 22nd, 2011

INSTALLATION OPENING NOVEMBER 22
Installation runs from Nov. 22nd through Dec 3rd, 2011

MIXploratorium is presented by MIX NYC QUEER EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL and THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFORMATION Queer Arts Collective.

Visual Artists: Peter Cramer, Cristy C. Road, Gabriel DeFazio, Avory Agony, Quito Ziegler, Serichai Traipoom, Larry Shea

These artists will take up residency at La Mama Galleria for a week, creating installations involving drawings from the most anticipated tarot deck of our generation, New Yorker covers that parallel the progress of one artist’s journey with HIV, intergalactic cushions shaping distant lounging spaces, a zine library years in the hoarding, found objects from the Rockaways sculpted into an object of personal hope, a short inspired by a visit to a witch in the Bronx, community, wild ponies, and fresh hot cookies. Together we celebrate the rigor of things that have been with us for years and things lasting no more than a day. The collective goal is to create a welcoming, otherworldly nest in the heart of downtown, then invite performing artists such as Damien Luxe, Heather Acs, Louie Chavez, Jennifer Blowdryer, Stephen Boyer, and Roo Kahn, and other exhibitionists for noise-making, readings, performance, vegan suppers, and terribly glamorous, yet extraordinarily low-key, parties. MIXploratorium is eager to transform a silent void into a raucous space of reflection and connection; anger and enlightenment.

MIXploratorium is an extension of MIX 24: The 24th MIX New York Queer Experimental Film Festival and is produced by The Department of Transformation.

FOR FURTHER DETAILS ON MIXPLORATORIUM PLEASE VISIT:
www.mixnyc.org
www.departmentoftransformation.org

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*YOUR MIXPLORATORIUM EVENT SCHEDULE*

NOVEMBER 22ND
6pm Opening Reception with Pop-Up Queer Photo Studio by Ricki and Seri

8pm Storytelling Fantastique – organized by Damien Luxe
Storytelling Fantastique, featuring Tigerlad, Polyester, Apocalypse & Glitter! Experience a night of experimental queer storytelling. “Tigerlad was just a lad. Tigerlad was just a tiger…” begins featured performer NCN’s perverse tale of wanderlust. Plus, cozy up to experience glitter realness with Glenn Marla, peak-oil polyester fetishists with Damien Luxe, lesbian fantastic apocalypse with Ariel Speedwagon, sci-fi with Victor Tobar, and more.
http://www.tigerlad.com/
http://www.axondluxe.com/

NOVEMBER 23RD
7pm A Cozy Night of Multi-Media Performance- curated by Heather Ács
Join us for a cozy night of multi-media “works-in-process” and open mic, where we “rewrite the script” by redefining family, home, and holidays. All are invited to share work in any medium under 10 min. Featured artists TBA. Contact acs.heather@gmail.com to be put on the list for the open mic prior to event.
http://www.heatheracs.com/

NOVEMBER 25TH
7pm The Cinematic Noise Experiment- organized by Louie Chavez
The Cinematic Noise Experiment is a night in which musicians, performers and artists come together to construct and destroy live soundscapes for film & projections.

NOVEMBER 26TH
2pm All Day Thanksvegan – organized by Avory Agony

NOVEMBER 27TH
2pm Dr. Seuss story hour – Roo Khan
Radical Environmentalism, Commodified Prejudice, and Extending Language : A Dr. Seuss Reading
The author Theodor Seuss Geisel created many books full of talented rhymes and skilled illustrations, but for many of us it was the messages behind the story that stuck with us. This will be a reading of three of Dr. Seuss’s works, with a few words of commentary and radical queer context: “The Lorax”, “The Sneeches”, and “On Beyond Zebra.”

5pm Dirty Talk: a cinematic reading event by Dirty Looks – curated by Bradford Nordeen
Featuring Jennifer Blowdryer, Stephen Boyer, Bradford Nordeen, Daniel Sander, Masha Tupitsyn
Since the invention of the cinema, its influence on every form has been totally immeasurable, not least of which is its distinct impact on literature, poetry and prose. Dirty Looks assembles 5 inter-generational writers who will present work that takes the moving-image as their primary point of inspiration.

NOVEMBER 29TH
8-10pm QuORUM’s Unicorn Power Creativity Explosion 5000
Artist/Curator: QuORUM via Heather Ács
Join QuORUM (Queers Organizing for Radical Unity and Mobilization), a consensus-based radical queer collective, for an evening of artistic celebration and queer brain power. We will be showing photos from past events, showcasing performers from our community, and facilitating a conversation about future happenings.
http://www.quorumnyc.org/

DECEMBER 1ST
1:30 – 7:30pm World AIDS Day Video: Untitled
Jim Hodges, Carlos Marques da Cruz & Encke King
A non-linear montage of archival and pop footage recalling the passionate activism sparked by the early years of the AIDS crisis.

DECEMBER 2ND
8PM CLOSING PARTY with Pop-Up Queer Photo Studio by Ricki and Seri
Damien Luxe and Heather Ács from the Heels on Wheels Glitter Roadshow – Ladybeast, collaborators from across the galaxy, including Najva Sol, stage a hirsuite intervention at the gallery’s entrance. Over the evening a performance emerges that shows up in the most visible of places and just keeps growing: hairsweet/hirsuite.
http://www.heelsonwheelsroadshow.com/

Carl Van Vechten – Daniel Lang/Levitsky
Fashionable Places out of Season (Libertas Sine Labore / Amica Non Serva)
A projection performance of images from the queer scrapbooks of Carl Van Vechten, accompanied by a spoken word cantata drawn from his novels, daybooks, and encyclopedic book on cats. Van Vechten, a ubiquitous figure of modernist New York, from concert halls and bohemian cocktail parties to Harlem dives and ‘buffet flats’, is now barely remembered. This performance is part of an ongoing project exploring the 18 volumes of scrapbooks in which Van Vechten compiled and collaged fifty years of queer and trans material, from commercial porn to tabloid articles to ephemera of all kinds.

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