This Friday, September 12:

Join us Friday, September 12 from 6 - 9 pm for a gathering celebrating the closing of Halo Starling’s Fairy Prince. The convening will include an artist talk where Starling will discuss his year-long archival research process, collage methodologies, and trans aesthetic tactics. Guest performances by Graeae, Huntrezz Janos, and Isabel Beavers will amplify the themes of the exhibition. There will be time to enter ‘faerie space’ before and after the scheduled programming with music, beverages, and light snacks for all to enjoy. Please refer to our website for a detailed schedule and to read more about the performing artists. 

For anyone who cannot attend the reception, the final day to view Fairy Prince is Saturday, September 13 from 10 am - 5 pm.

Announcing: Holding Patterns by Alexandra Juhasz

Holding Patterns by Alexandra Juhasz opens Friday, October 3. The installation considers how Zoom and other pandemic technologies flatten and deepen attention, connection, and care. A meditation on technologies of memory, with close attention paid to medium specificity, the installation will be anchored by four video interviews and their paper transcripts—remarkable conversations between friends and “AIDS workers”—and two death-bed/legacy videos shot by Alexandra Juhasz on her friends’ request from 1992 and 2022. The video installation will be accompanied by archival objects that hold memory, care, and stories of activism and disability.

The two legacy videos center Jim Lamb, a white gay male performer from New York City who died of AIDS related complications at 29 in 1993, and Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski, a Black disabled queer feminist media activist who died in 2022 on her own terms, in her sixties, due largely to inequities in the American healthcare system and COVID-19.

Also on view will be selections from several archival collections at the ONE Archives: including those of Mina Kay Meyer, Yolanda Retter, and Kenneth L. Wiederhold.

Save the dates for an opening reception on Friday, October 3 from 6 - 9 pm and a Political Grief Workshop led by What Would an HIV Doula Do? on Saturday, October 4 12 - 2 pm. Read more about the show and accompanying programs here and stay tuned for more announcements.

Another iteration of Holding Patterns will be on view concurrently at The Center, New York City, starting October 15.

Thank you to all who came out to the Getty last Saturday for our Pop-Up Reading Room on Queer, Trans, and Non-Binary Music History!

It was a pleasure meeting, connecting, and fangirling with you all at the Getty Center last weekend. We appreciate the support and hope to provide more exhibitions and programs on queer music history in the near future!