Pomogaze 2015Leeds City Art Gallery11 July 2015Queer Artist talks

Nic BrannanExplores none gender specific identiites using media platforms, films, self narrating through his body.

Selfie reclaiming the self as multiplicity of gender and identity, looking at duality and symmetry.

Emily TowlerThe body is not a thing, it is a situation it is our grasp on the world and on our sketch (Simone de Beauvoir)

Influenced by Cindy Sherman 1979 #35 and Claude Cahun ( and Marcel Moore) 1928 reflecting womenhood comparing which times were better past or present regarding roles of women and community. Through the character of Marple who has a fractured identity

Gender binary Machine, focusing on the male gaze and how it can be debilitating to women. Towler straps the machine on to her body and walks around on her hands and knees.

The machine contains narratives from the public about their comments and understanding of gender binary and how this issues have impacted on them. The intense male stare of Nigel Burgess eyes leer at the top of the machine down on to her body. Inspired by Jana Sterbak Remote Control 1989.

Bruce Rimell

The queer and the Fernal

Structure of identitiesThe Fernal world, he created his own language integrating the queer as a positive attribute of human identity and quality.Mythical fictional language

Aiming for holistic archetype ideal of sexuality

Connor Quill @k_kdanceExperiences coming from young people (Grants for the arts funded).Consulted with young people to explore homophobia written letters and then created dance pieces in relation to this work.The work has been shown professionally twice and should be fully ready for spring next year.Comments People can be scared of gay people outside of a normative system. Particularly with gay men; they can be subjected to infantilization being referred to a gay boy Not a man or a proper grown up. (infantilization: to keep in or reduce to an infantile state/ to treat or regard as infantile or immature).

Ryan ThompsonPerformance artist, got people to read bed time stories to him. One participant repeatedly came back because he enjoyed the intimacy of getting in bed with him and reading to him.

Out of House and HomeEating ginger bread- Hansel and Gretel, a method of sugar coating childrens homelessness.

Unicorns- Queer imagery which he identified with, he didnt identify with references to being a fairy. He found a legend where a dragon fought with a unicorn and if either ever won the whole world would be destroyed.

He also recognised that Unicorns represent a phallic symbol and in one performance did embody a unicorn itself. Though he indicated that he didnt like it as an artistic experience.

Recently has developed new work where every chess piece is a unicorn and then turned the chess board into a disco ball room.

Video of wizard of Oz used to annoy him when he saw the wicked witch walking down stairs and she would flash her legs which werent painted green. So he created his own short video with brightly painted green legs and walk down stairs in acknowledgement of this work. Additionally he also spray painted the ruby slippers silver to nod to the original text. The film used ruby coloured slippers as they translated better on big screen in Technicolor and this has continued ever since with the exception of Wicked.

Paul JexLooking at works of other artists focuses on artists exploring colour.

Created an exhibition with the words dates to be confirmed underneath each poster. Nodding to potential exhibitions which could be created in the future.

Derek Jarman-Absalon conceptual piece, involving two artist who both ended up dying of AIDS related illness. One piece a cell structure sculpture featuring the same tone of red as the other artist who created a collages of newspaper articles and covered them in red paint

Jasper Johns and Robert RauschenbergBoth worked in white- gay artist, tendancy to work in one colour- and were in a relationship with each other.

Obituaries of artists who died one after another.

Over several year he has been collecting articles of Howard Hodgkin which have featured each year in the guardian.

Sweet wrapper collection, which compares two types of wrapper, the newer ones decompose quicker due to the materials theyre made from.

Three types of dragGender performativityis a term created bypost-structuralistfeministphilosopherJudith Butlerin her 1990 bookGender Trouble, which has subsequently been used in a variety of academic fieldsGender dragTemporal dragAbstract drag