GLOBAL ART DIALOGUES:
QUEER FUTURES

“Queerness is essentially about the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality for another world.” A panel of contemporary artists who transform notions of queerness in their work considers this foundational statement by cultural theorist José Esteban Muñoz in a virtual conversation moderated by artist, writer, and curator Việt Lê. Tina Takemoto and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto – both featured in After Hope: Videos of Resistance – join the duo behind Australia’s Club Ate, Bhenji Ra and Justin Shoulder. They’ll investigate the power and failures of queer futurity and deconstruct otherworldly yearnings and imagination fatigue. Using science fiction and speculative narrative, mythology and future folklore, our artists are re-defining the ways we could possibly dream and exist.

Past: March 30, 2021, 7 pm

 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is a visual artist, performer, and curator who explores complex histories of colonialism and the intersections of queerness and Islam through a multimedia practice.

Club Ate is a collective formed in 2014 by multiform artists Justin Shoulder and Bhenji Ra whose practice traverses video, performance, and club events with an emphasis on community activation.

Artist, writer, and curator Việt Lê is professor of visual studies at California College of the Arts and author of “Return Engagements: The Traumas of Modernity and History in Sài Gòn and Phnom Penh.”

Tina Takemoto is an artist and filmmaker who explores hidden dimensions of same- sex intimacy in Asian American history by manipulating archival and found footage.