Adrienne’s Dirty Laundry Service – Arches New Work Commission (2003), 22:16
Adrienne’s Room Service at The Great Eastern Hotel (2005), 8:50
The publication builds on an exhibition and conference at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna that explored the contradictory standpoints of queer art practices, conceptions of the body, and ideas of ‘queer abstraction,’ a term coined by Judith Jack Halberstam that raises questions to do with (visual) representations in the context of gender, sexuality, and desire. It is particularly concerned with where form and politics crossover, citing the various combinations, juxtapositions, and the play between artistic strategies.
A look at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Muñoz calls this process “disidentification,” and through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism.
London's alternative East End drag phenomenon gets its moment in this account of six years in the lives of its most celebrated performers: Jonny Woo, John Sizzle, Holestar, Scottee, Amber, Pia and Ma Butcher.
Extras: interviews with cast and crew, deleted scenes, character profiles, music videos, performances. Directed by Colin Rothbart.
94 minutes.
2015.
This DVD is currently missing. The digital file can be viewed in the Study Room. The reference is EF5194.
A TV documentary following Howells' visit to Israel, where he performed at the Women's International Festival. With Hebrew and Russian subtitles.
42 minutes.
This DVD is currently missing. The digital file can be viewed in the Study Room. The reference is EF5192.
Drawing on the popular entertainment form 'An Audience with …', Howells creates a performance in which an audience of around 25 is invited to share memories and experiences with his alter ego.
Blurred recording. 2006.
2 hours 36 minutes.
This DVD is currently missing. The digital files can be viewed in the Study Room. Their references are EF5197, EF5198, EF5199, EF5200.
4 short videos. 2006. Includes:
Introduction 2:18
Sensitive Boy 1:10
Fatally Attracted (to colourful and glittery things) 3:20
poofter 3:03
This DVD is currently missing. The digital file can be viewed in the Study Room. The reference is EF5202.
Adrienne's Dirty Laundry Service – Arches New Work Commission (2003), 22:16
Adrienne's Room Service at The Great Eastern Hotel (2005), 8:50
This publication is an homage to “Paris Is Burning”, Jennie Livingston’s brilliant and award-winning 1991 documentary that captures the 1980s New York drag ball scene.
Kaboobie (visual and performance artist troy-anthony baylis) converses via email with Constantina Bush (actor and cabaret artist Kamahi Djordan King), they yarn about empowerment, the art of drag, the rocky road of glamour and querying queer, blak-ways.