PUBLIC EVENTS
Queer Conscience:
New Normal
Jeff Hnilicka
Monday, May 3 8pm
Suggested Donation: $5-$10
For reservations, email reservations@cprnyc.org
Sick of waiting for the economy to get "better" or "back to normal"? Join cultural worker Jeff Hnilicka to explore emerging models of production. His Luddite presentation will look at these systems' sustainability and their impact within communities. Audiences contribute to an aggregating collection of histories, dreams, and schemes that will travel this spring with Hnilicka to his projects in Washington DC, Philadelphia, Portland OR, and many points in between.
Jeff Hnilicka is Co-Founder of FEAST (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics).
ABOUT QUEER CONSCIENCE
After serving as the Festival Director for the 2009 HOT! Festival, a six week, multi-site festival of queer performance and culture, Earl Dax presents Queer Conscience. Part of the "New Voices in Performance" series at the Center for Performance Research (CPR) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Queer Conscience includes performance, discussions, screenings and other special events that feature artists, activists, and academics whose experiments in queer identity serve as springboards to broader social consciousness. Rejecting the recent commodification of LGBT lifestyles, Queer Conscience looks back to early lesbian and gay activists whose political analysis identified linked sources of oppression, even as it seeks to showcase contemporary cultural productions, activism, and academic writing that offer the promise of queering the future. Indeed, the utopian vision of Queer Conscience rests on creative forms of resistance to oppression and hegemony -- forms of resistance that take hold in the imagination and are made concrete in our art, theory, and activism. But rather than seeking a narrow definition, Queer Conscience presents itself as a question, a provocation, a catalyst for dialogue, reflection, analysis, strategizing and action around a host of issues that are of vital importance, not only to LGBT and Queer communities, but to society at large. By queering conventional notions of "conscience" based in religious dogma, patriarchy, and heteronormativity, Queer Conscience anticipates, suggests and seeks to instigate a utopian future.
The New Voices in Live Performance Series is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; The Mertz Gilmore Foundation; and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
