The cross-dressings of Gendah Bendah Grace Jones latest inductee to the League of Legendary Ladies Yuh dun know that masculine-feminine skyscraper TORONTO - (Wednesday, May 16, 2012) - Sheroes will be presenting their latest event, Sheroes #10: Grace Jones, on Thursday, May 24th at The Beaver (1192 Queen Street West).
The monthly, limited-run art party series — which brings together on and offline works that playfully and peformatively explore the iconography and fan culture surrounding the League of Legendary Ladies — will be co-headlined by Juno Award-winning dub poet Lillian Allen and premier vogueing house of Canada House of Monroe. For Sheroes #10: Grace Jones, organizer Rea McNamara has commissioned an impressive lineup of local and international artists and performers. Inspired by the Gendah Bendah's neo-Queen Nanny-ness, these performances, digital animations and interactive installations will reinterpret and remix for one night only our current muse. Sheroes #10: Grace Jones Thursday, May 24, 2012. 11PM. The Beaver (1192 Queen Street West) Contact: Rea McNamara <totallyeffyeahsher...@gmail.com> Performances Lillian Allen: The legendary dub poet brings the word, sound and power to Sheroes #10. A recognized cultural activist that has been on the Toronto scene since the seventies, she is considered a "founding mother" of the Canadian dub poetry legacy. Lillian will collaborate with Sheroes salonnière reeraw & local political activist/electronic musician El Costello (Stop Die Resuscitate). House of Monroe: The premier voguing House of Canada will catwalk alongside musical accompaniment from special guest DJ Todd-Rod Skimmins (The MAKEOVER, SYNCH MODE). AND THERE'S MOAR!: The Locus of Norwich Imagination Se Ye graces Sheroes #10 with his Queen Nanny cosplay, the Sheroes Quest continues with Sheroes salonnière reeraw briefly shifting the immersive party atmosphere into karaoke machine territory with League of Legendary Ladies Karaoke, resident DJ NoLoves brings the chunes & emcee extraodinaire Silk Degrees holds it all down. Projections Above: a screen shot of a specially-commissioned animated GIF from Trinbagonian artist Rodell Warner for Sheroes #10. Digital Animations: Lorna Mills curates Les post-Gendered et les autres, a group GIF show projected on the walls of The Beaver. The show will feature the works of A. Bill Miller, Andrew Benson, Anthony Antonellis, Chiara Passa, Daniel Rehn, Emilie Gervais, Emilio Gomariz, Eva Papamargariti, Francoise Gamma, Gaby Cepeda, Georges Jacotey, Giselle Zatonyl, Grace McEvoy, Haruko Hirukawa, Helen Adamidou, Isaac Hicks, Juan Manuel Morales, Lorna Mills, Małgosia Woźnica, Manuel Fernández, Michael Manning, Oz Melo, Rea McNamara, Rodell Warner, Rollin Leonard, Sally McKay, Sarah Weis, Tony Halmos & Yoshi Sodeoka. What is Sheroes? Sheroes is committed to doing herstory right — reinterpreting and remixing the mythic woman-power that pervades digital and actual cultures, realizing new works from ephemeral and archival artifacts. Our next inductee into the League of Legendary Ladies (Pride Toronto edition!) will be Dusty Springfield on Thursday, June 28th at The Beaver. For further information regarding our upcoming events, click here. All Sheroes events are brainstormed and archived online at fuckyeahsheroes.tumblr.com, uniting digital communities with real-time audiences in an ongoing exploration into cultures of fandom and collaborative content creation. Visit the Sheroes Archives for a catalogue of our past events. http://fuckyeahsheroes.tumblr.com/post/23041409709/sheroes-10-grace-jones-press-release?utm_source=Sheroes+Arts+Media&utm_campaign=67b5474e8a-Sheroes_10_Grace_Jones5_16_2012&utm_medium=email Interactive Installations Drawn/Painted Grace: Artists Rusiko & Nathan Smith offer different visual takes on our current muse. Mas: Trinbagonian mixed media artist Brianna McCarthy creates special collage masks that will encourage party goers to engage in the Gendah Bendah's cross-dressings. Nail Art Bar: Our popular nail artist Smack of the Hand returns, offering Sheroes attendees PWYC Gendah Bendah-inspired manis. The Sheroes Stan Residency Program Sharing the Aca-Fen Knowledge: Meet Paul Petro, our second Sheroes Stan. The Toronto dealer of Paul Petro Contemporary Art — is answering any Grace stan questions this month. (You can see his facilitated Grace discussions in our active Facebook group.) Sheroes partners with Whippersnapper Gallery for central mid-summer closing event This is the end: local Artist-Run Centre Whippersnapper will be co-presenting Sheroes: Virtual Season, a massive all-day and night art and music festival in Kensington Market on July 29's Pedestrian Sunday. Click here for more information regarding our closing event, which will be a part of the gallery's summer programming initiative. ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
