Mon, January 10 2011
Media Contact
Cindi Creager, Director of Communications & Marketing
(212) 620-7310, ccreager@gaycenter.org
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center is pleased to present Living Live, an exhibition of contemporary art organized by David Louis Fierman and RJ Supa.
The exhibition aims to interrogate, activate, and complicate the community center space and can be seen throughout the building.
Living Live deals with the distance between representation and lived experience, between what we live and what we are told is “live.” “Live” television is always actually slightly delayed for both technical reasons and to have the chance to edit content. When we watch a “live” performance we know that it is, for the most part, a rehearsed spectacle. Taken further, to be “live” is to be spontaneous, unpredictable, and take an active role in creating one’s life. This live-ness is always tempered by routine, by the reenactment of cultural tropes and performances, and the expectations put upon actions and people by others.
The concept has a special bearing in the LGBT community, which often hangs in a limbo between forging a new “live” identity and place and re-creating societal gender norms. (See for example, the film Paris is Burning, which documents its subjects creating a new, entirely “live” social performance out of cultural motifs such as supermodels, polo players, and the television show Dynasty.) While the exhibition does feature queer artists, it also takes aim at a larger goal: to reveal and explore the distance between what we live and what is imposed, between merely living and “living live.”
The show features work by Andrea Bowers, Alejandro Cesarco, Martin Soto Climent, Leidy Churchman, Christian Dietkus, Zackary Drucker, Josh Faught, Keltie Ferris, Eve Fowler, Katy Grannan, Oliver Herring, Scott Hug, Kalup Linzy, Ryan McNamara, Robert Melee, Lucas Michael, Jack Pierson, A.L. Steiner, RJ Supa, and others.
WHAT: Living Live at the Center
WHO: Andrea Bowers, Alejandro Cesarco, Martin Soto Clement, Leidy Churchman, Christian Dietkus, Zackary Drucker, Josh Faught, Keltie Ferris, Eve Fowler, Mariah Garnett, Katy Grannan, Oliver Herring, Scott Hug, Ryan McNamara, Robert Melee, Lucas Michael, Jack Pierson, RJ Supa, and others.
WHEN: Opening and Reception, Thursday January 27, 2011 7 PM- 9 PM
Live Performances throughout the run of the show.
Show closes February 28, 2011
WHERE: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
208 West 13th Street
New York City
CONTACT: Cindi Creager, Director of Communications & Marketing
(212) 620-7310
ccreager@gaycenter.org
About the Center
A beacon of hope for 29 years, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center builds and supports our community through arts and culture, wellness and recovery, family services and life-saving youth programs designed to foster healthy development in a safe, affirming environment. The Center envisions a world where LGBT people will no longer face discrimination or isolation because of who we are or who we love. We offer a welcoming home to 300,000 visitors each year and we are committed to serving all LGBT people through a variety of programs, services and activities that are designed to meet existing and emerging needs.The Center is many things to many people. We invite you to experience our home at 208 West 13th Street in person and online at gaycenter.org
