Queer City
Queer City is the collaboration between City of Melbourne, Arts Victoria, Midsumma, and local galleries and artists from the queer community. In 2012 the Queer City was focussed around 1000 Pound Bend Gallery and performance venue, in Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne along with City Library which has regularly been part of the festival between 2008 and 2012, and a new, tiny exhibition space known as Mailbox 141, which is the old glass and wooden mailboxes of 141 Flinders Lane, that have been converted into a small art exhibition space.
Recent years (2010 or 11) a breathtaking exhibition of Vivien St James’ work, a celebration of fluid or ‘unstable’ gender at Platform Space, as well as exhibitions at Guilford Lane Gallery and fortyfive downstairs.
Re/Gendered brings together a number of high profile international and Australian artists in a group exhibition that celebrates the notion of fluid or 'unstable' gender, striving to transgress and blur the boundaries of gender performance.
Queer City will launch on Monday 18 January at City Library before moving to fortyfive downstairs and ending with the after-party at Loop Bar and includes many more exhibits exploring and celebrating gay culture.
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Famous quotes containing the words queer and/or city:
“For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.”
—Joyce Cary (1888–1957)
“The city is all right. To live in one
Is to be civilized, stay up and read
Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise
By waiting up instead of getting up.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)