b.1983 will be showing at in + body, Concordia’s 16th installment of its annual HIV/AIDS art show, from Monday March 29th to Friday April 9th at the VAV Gallery in Montreal. An opening party will be held April 1st from 7-9pm at the gallery with performances by Coral Short, RPM, and Kathleen Patricia Lamothe.
Cruising the Cartography, my immersive research laboratory installation on queer public sex cultures in Portland Maine, opens at the Maine Institute for Contemporary Art on May 7th. This piece is part of a group exhibition of graduate students at Maine College of Art that will be up through June 6th. An accompanying catalog will be available soon.
Liam Michaud-O’Grady and I will be installing seven site-specific broadsheet in Montreal the week of April 15th & 16th as part of the Concordia graduate studies conference, Resistances: counter-conduct, inter-disruptions, and compromising acts, for our project Queer Cartography: Mapping Public Pleasures, Safety, Risk. A .pdf of our postcard map is available here.
I will be stage-managing the 2nd Annual Lewistunning Dragapalooza on May 8th at Schaeffer Theater on the Bates College Campus in Lewiston Maine. This totally wild drag show benefit raises money for the queer and trans youth advocacy organization Outright L/A.
From May 12th to 27th I will be in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa on a post-graduate research trip thanks to the Roderick Dew Travel Fellowship at the Maine College of Art. Primarily I will be working with folks from the Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action Archive at the University of Witwatersrand in Jo-burg.