Club des Femmes showcases cinema created by women, putting female vision at the centre stage of visual art.
How can one tell is minority arts are not just good but great? How can it be judged on it’s own merits and resist the Eurocentric patriarchal heternormative gaze? Is that said gaze so dominant that it is pointless to even try?
Friction talks to Del LaGrace Volcano about photographing femmes, drag kings and outsiders. We hear why after more than two decades photographing sexual outlaws he refuses to be co-opted by the mainstream.
Kara Walker disturbs because she makes us imagine what we refuse to believe.
I have only been familiar with the work of Kara Walker in terms of her still images. But was introduced to her moving image work by the curator Teka Selman in a talk she gave in Barbados where I was also presenting my work.