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Special session:
CampCamp!,
Idapalooza, and Pink:
Performance, Event, and the Formation of Transitory, Queer
Community
Session
Intro
This
panel places three distinct yet convergent art events/social
formations into dialogue:
CampCamp!, the monthly, queer performance art
happening in Austin, TX; Idapalooza, the annual, queer
music and performance festival in rural Tennessee; and pink: a (love) courier service, a nationally touring, site-specific,
community-engaged, interactive performance installation.
This panel also places into dialogue four
individual artists and thinkers, with intersecting
narratives and overlapping creative and cultural
investments. As
lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer artist/scholar/activists,
this panel seeks to ask, “In what ways can art events
work as social movements, and how do performances,
happenings, events, and migrations—with queer
sexualities literally as well as metaphorically in
transition—function as catalysts in the formation of
countercultural communities?”
Papers
in this session:
“Love,
Labor, and the Proliferation of Small Worlds: Getting pink
in Austin, Texas and Portland, Oregon”
Jaclyn
Pryor
Performance as Public Practice Program
University
of Texas-Austin
“CampCamp,
or, The Persistence of Performing Queer”
Ray
Matthews
Performance
as Public Practice Program
University
of Texas-Austin
&
Silky Shoemaker
Independent
Artist
“Radical
Faeries, Repetition, and Return: A Memorylogue”
Independent
Artist
&
Ray Matthews
Performance as Public Practice Program
University
of Texas-Austin
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