Queering Plunder

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Aleesa Cohene, Nelson Henricks, Dara Gellman and Leslie Peters (in collaboration) and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay

Other associated events: Opening Reception and Curator's Talk, Friday, November 17, 9:00 pm Panel discussion in conjunction with Queer City Cinema November 18, 2:00 pm, Regina Public Library Film Theatre

Queering Plunder presents recent video installations by five of this country's most provocative and accomplished producers: Aleesa Cohene, Nelson Henricks, Dara Gellman and Leslie Peters (in collaboration) and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay. Their four works find connections in their unique capacity to challenge hetero-normative narratives in music, cinema and language. Through their collective crush on found media, the artists remake and remix the materials they have appropriated, recontextualizing it to produce sophisticated, poetic and counter-intuitive examinations of the intersections of popular media and a queer unconscious. It is at these intersections that we find the artists asking us to dispense with familiar understandings and move toward a new, queer kind of knowing. The panel discussion, in conjunction with the Queer City Cinema film festival, will be an opportunity for the artists to explore issues around the contextualization of queer media art (film/movie theatre vs. the art gallery/exhibition space) and how the positioning of queer work in film festivals or public screenings and in galleries takes on different readings and reactions from the publics that view the work in these spaces.

Queering Plunder (Installation View), 2007.