Barbara Hammer's experimental film and video, performance, photography, and political actions defined and proliferated lesbian and queer experimental culture and fine art from the 1970s to the present day. She is often described as an originating force in "Queer Cinema." A beloved and prolific iconoclast with friends and followers world-wide. https://barbarahammer.com/ https://moormother.bandcamp.com/
Black Quantum Futurism (BQF) is a new approach to living and experiencing reality by way of the manipulation of space-time in order to see into possible futures, and/or collapse space-time into a desired future in order to bring about that future’s reality. This vision and practice derives its facets, tenets, and qualities from quantum physics and Black/African cultural traditions of consciousness, time, and space. Under a BQF intersectional time orientation, the past and future are not cut off from the present - both dimensions have influence over the whole of our lives, who we are and who we become at any particular point in space-time. Through various writing, music, film, visual art, and creative research projects, BQF Collective also explores personal, cultural, familial, and communal cycles of experience, and solutions for transforming negative cycles into positive ones using artistic and wholistic methods of healing. Our work focuses on recovery, collection, and preservation of communal memories, histories, and stories. https://www.blackquantumfuturism.com/
Eileen Myles serves as a beloved and renowned poet across the Lower East Side of NYC to their home in Marfa TX. Myles, often called the original punk rock poet, unfolds legacies of class, the complexities of lesbian and queer desire, and exhorts the cultural damned as well as elect across multiple books, poetry collections, art criticism, and audio formats. https://www.eileenmyles.com/
Jibz Cameron / Dynasty Handbag uses radical, complex, & hilarious comedic performance to explore her life and identity from wildly personally introspective to incredibly incisive political satire regarding queer, feminist, and human foibles and triumphs. http://www.dynastyhandbag.com/