queer timɘs school prints
Sammanfattning
queer timɘs school prints was commissioned and acquired for the collection of Glasgow Museums. It investigated the potential to establish a non-licit form of organisation that builds on potential curatorial impulses within projectarian ‘socially-engaged’ forms of pedagogical art as conceived of and curated by artists in collaboration with citizens and commissioned by art institutions. From a process of citizen engagement (via public assemblies as a temporary queer school) ten initial ‘educational’ prints were commissioned under the monikor of queer timɘs school prints. queer timɘs school prints as a concept was purchased by Glasgow Museums, allowing for an ongoing community commissioning scheme focusing on histories and comditions of LGTPQIA+ identities and forms of organisation.
The work coincides with the legislation that demands that LGBT+ histories and issues are compulsory within Scotland’s curriculum for schools. It includes the first ever lesson plans for schools to be produced within the new legislation, based on the first iteration of queer timɘs school prints.
Med stöd av
Swedish Research Council.
Glasgow Museums, 20,000 GBP.
Heritage Lottery Fund. UK 9,100 GBP.
Beskrivning av projektet
queer timɘs school prints is propositional. It examines the interface between informal and projectarian (Szerder 2017) models of organising within LGBT+ communities (Drucker, 2011, Lewis 2018) and their allies and the structures of a museum’s commissioning and collecting procedures (Shrag 2016). Building on the quasi-curatorial methods of artists’ inerventions into museology (Robins, 2016; La Carroll 2017; Jefferies, 2015; Sandino and Pye, 2013) by establishing a mode of community commissioning (Goldbard, 2005; Doherty et al. 2004; Sharp 2007) and a series of methods by which to investigate the potential for transveral nodes of curating within the organisation inherent to socially-engaged practice (Kester et al. 2005; O’Neill and Doherty, 2004). Further, the project seeks to complexify the relations between processes of curating and critical exhibition-making (Voorhies 2018) within socialy engaged art via aesthetic display methods from within the field of micro museology (Candlin, 2005). Firstly proposed is that the Gallery of Modern Art has an organisational mechanism by which to invite artists to create ‘educational’ prints that chronicle histories and address shifts in LGBTPQI+A lives and cultures. The first iteration of queer timɘs school print, also coincides with initiatives that tackle equality of gender and sexual orientation in schools’ environments and curricula. Secondly proposed is that prints - editioned through the concept of queer times school prints - are disseminated to secondary schools in Glasgow.
Glasgow Museums has acquired the concept of queer timɘs school prints for its collection, which also allows for the series to be developed in the future. However, Glasgow Museums, or its representatives, cannot be sole decision-makers. LGBTPQI communities and organisations, and allies of peoples of ‘non-conforming’ genders and sexualities must continue to actively participate in decisions regarding any commissioning and editioning processes of future queer timɘs school prints.
Prior to the exhibition queer timɘs school was established with a series of citizen assemblies, addressing 50 years of LGBTPQI+A histories via partnerships including with 6 academic research projects in Scotland.
Following the queer timɘs school assemblies the following themes were identified by participants, which influenced the commission brief given to artists.
• Legislation, the State, Religion and LGBTPQI+ bodies.
• School Education, Exclusion and Inclusion.
• Health, Care and Wellbeing.
• Coming Out.
• Relationships and Socialities.
• Spaces and Places.
• Activism, Organising and Campaigning.
• Grass roots, Voluntary and Communitarian Support Systems.
• Overlooked, Disregarded, Evicted and Erased Histories.
• Fabulousness, Amusement, Humour, Exuberance and Fun.
Artists Selection
queer timɘs school participants proposed that, for the first series of prints, the artists should be: of ‘non-conforming’ genders and sexualities, and have a pronounced relationship to Scotland.
Curators, academics and cultural workers across Scotland were then requested to recommend artists for the first queer times school prints commissions.
Artists Commissioned for the first edition of queer timɘs school prints: Adam Benmakhlouf, Jason E. Bowman, Hamish Chapman, Kate Charlesworth, Michelle Hannah, Garry Mac, Anne Robinson, Henry Rogers, Camara Taylor and Donald Urquhart.
Outputs:
• 2 roundtables
• 18 public citizens’ assemblies.
• 1 temporary queer school.
• 12 organisational partners and 6 academic partners.
• 10 artists prints commissioned
• 10 lesson plans
• 1 exhibition with predicted viewership of 22,500 people
Ongoing public programme until 10 March 2019.
The logo, as employed as a moniker in the visual livery of the queer timɘs school/queer timɘs school prints research project.
In 1978 activist and artist Gilbert Baker, who died in 2017, invented the Rainbow Flag. Originally the design contained eight coloured stripes attributed with the following meanings:
Red: Life
Orange: Healing
Yellow: Sunlight
Green: Nature
Blue: Harmony/Peace
Purple: Spirit
Turquoise: Art
Pink: Sexuality
In 1979 the turquoise and pink stripes were evicted to allow for increased dissemination via mass-manufacturing processes. The free font used for the queer timɘs school and queer timɘs school prints logo was issued in the year of Baker’s death and is named ‘Gilbert’. The logo for this art project re-introduces the use of pink. Likewise, turquoise has now been applied to the backwards letter ɘ. In logics a backwards ‘ɘ’ can be understood to mean ‘there exists’, ‘there is one’ or ‘for some’.
Offentliggjord i
Commissioned by the Gallery of Modern Art and Acquired for the Collection of Glasgow Museums.
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Datum
2018-12-01Upphovsman
Bowman, Jason E.
Nyckelord
Queer
Artist-Organisation
Curating
Community
Commissioning
Publikationstyp
artistic work
Språk
eng