cats-and-cardigans: Delhi QueerFest 2015! OPEN CALL FOR VISUAL ART SUBMISSIONS: Where is Queer? When
cats-and-cardigans: Delhi QueerFest 2015! OPEN CALL FOR VISUAL ART SUBMISSIONS: Where is Queer? When is Queer? What is Queer? Since the 19th century, queer has come to mean different things for different places and generations. But one thing strands across them: it has a history of taking a term meant to deride and insult and turn it around to a badge of pride in dissent and difference. India has had its own moments with queerness. For a time, queer seemed to suggest possibilities of sexuality outside the norm at its most powerful – to bring together all the bodies cast outside the norms of one book, one love, one gender, one idea of beauty; to bring together movements that fought such closures together; to make sexuality about more than L or G or B or T or S or XYZ As we come back to Delhi, we return searching: what is queerness now? What should it be? In dark times of violent moralizing, censorship and cultural nationalism, do we reclaim it again? Use it to question, undo, re-imagine? Or has its moment passed? Has it become a word that gets thrown about to mean everything and nothing? If so, where do we go from here to think about what sexuality is, what it should be, what it could be? Send us text, photos, drawings, collages, visualisations, animations, videos, comics – anything really – that engages with ideas of queerness. Take it on, take it up, take it apart. Tell us, show us: What does it mean to be queer to you? All entries will be exhibited in some form or the other. This isn’t a space of censorship by either ban or curation. Throw something on the wall – let’s see what sticks. You don’t have to be an “artist” to send something. Come be part of the conversation. Submissions: All files must be 300 dpi and at least 20X 30 cm image size and can be mailed to queerfest2015@gmail.com Deadline: 9th November, 2015 -- source link