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weewerk 05 Friday 7 February 7-9 pm discussion
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On Friday 7 February weewerk hosts an Art in the Dark salon on "Art and Morality," followed by a set by trash-punk trio Slutarded. The casual discussion, moderated by CBC Radio's Jane Farrow, will consider questions of censorship, its dilemmas, and whether morals should or do exist in contemporary art practices and curation. Photographer/filmmaker Bruce LaBruce, rouge publisher Sam Hiyate, activist Allyson Mitchell, and video-zinester Scott Treleaven will speak. Art in the Dark is a series of participatory discussions around contemporary art practice organized by Luft Gallery and Hive Projects.
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BIOGRAPHIES Art
in the Dark is a casual, monthly after-hours discussion on contemporary
art practice in Toronto and abroad. It is a collaborative project of
Luft Gallery and Hive Projects. Bruce LaBruce is a writer, filmmaker and photographer based in Toronto. As a youth his homo punk fanzines (J.D.s and Dumb Bitch Deserves To Die) and Super 8 movies helped to launch the so-called Homocore or Queercore movement. His first feature film No Skin Off My Ass (1991), which explores the sordid relationship between a faggoty hairdresser and a mute, handsome young skinhead, became a world-wide cult hit, while Super 8 1/2 (1994), is a harrowing cautionary bio-pic about LaBruce's rocky rise to cult stardom. LaBruce's filmography also includes the controversial Hustler White (with Rick Castro, 1996) and Skin Flick (1999), which follows a gang of adorable neo-nazi skinheads who break into the home of an annoying, mixed-race, salt-and-pepper, bourgeois gay couple and sexually terrorize them. In 1998, LaBruce began to contribute regularly as a photographer and writer to magazines such as Honcho, Inches, and Index. He writes regular columns for eye weekly, Exclaim, and Inches. He has produced two books, his premature memoirs The Reluctant Pornographer (Gutter Press) and Ride, Queer, Ride, a survey of his work (Plug In Books). Linke to Bruce LaBruce site. Scott Treleaven is a Toronto-based writer and filmmaker best known for his zine cum film, the award winning THE SALiVATION ARMY, which was re-released as a compendium last year by Art Metropole (Toronto). A new work of horror fiction by Treleaven was recently published in Queer Fear II (ed. Michael Rowe, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002). Aside from the occasional stint modeling for erotic magazines, he has also curated events in conjunction with Pleasure Dome, media culture icons Arthur & Marilouise Kroker, artist Floria Sigismondi and counterculture legend Genesis P-Orridge. Until recently he was Artistic Director of Trinity Square Video. Link to Scott Treleaven site. Allyson Mitchell is a filmmaker, writer, activist, PhD student, and artist. As Bucky and Fluff's Craft Factory, Mitchell and partner Lex Vaughn have been making high-art houses livable with their affordable goodies. Her Super-8 animations have appeared all over the world. She teaches video and web-design to street kids. She rabble-rouses with the fat-power group Pretty, Porky and Pissed Off. A PhD candidate in Women's Studies, she also was one of the editors of Turbo Chicks: Talking Young Feminisms (Sumach Press, 2001). Sam Hiyate is publisher of Gutter Press, Canada's most daring small press, and editor of edgy lit mag Blood & Aphorisms. Recent Sam Hiyate imprints from Gutter Press include Tamara Faith Berger's XXX-rated novelette Lie With Me; Karnival by Michael Mortenson; I was Hitler's cat by N.J. Dodic, and Media Therapy by Larry Gaudet. Link to Gutter Press site. Jane Farrow is a writer, producer, and indie filmmaker. She created CBC Radio's "Wanted Words" segment, hosts its "Workology" program, and edited the two Wanted Words volumes. Her writings on such things as family snapshot albums, demolition derbies and audiophiles have appeared in Saturday Night, This Magazine, Shift and Utne Reader. She has taught a course at University of Toronto on "Everyday Anthropology." Short, trashy odes to cheese, booze and sweet revenge, Slutarded's punk anthems will leave you quivering. |
