exhibitions

queer transgressions
curated by edwina bartleme
Queer Transgressions (QT) is an art exhibition, web site and forum showcasing recent work by queer artists and writers dealing with themes of gender, sexual and bodily transgression. QT will explore practices, images, fantasies, bodies and spaces that disrupt conservative and restrictive notions of gender, sexuality and identity.
Free Entry

Exhibition
30 June - 30 July (Opening 30 June)
6.00pm @ Riverside & Turbine Levels, Brisbane Powerhouse
Artforms featured include photography, installation, video, mixed media, computer generated prints and CD ROM.

Forum
2 July
1.00pm @ Visy Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse
Tickets $12/$7 conc
Guest speakers include Rea, Wayne Stamp and
Dallas Angguish. Supported by the Gender Studies area,
Humanities, School of Arts, Griffith University.

Web Site
Site Launch 30 June, 2000.
On-line gallery & publication, presenting info about the QT project, artists & writers. Access at www.pridebrisbane.org.au/qt Designed by Ken Lyons.
For info contact Edwina Bartleme on 07 3875 7686

wanted: images of queer queensland
Brisbane Pride Collective and Queensland AIDS Council invite photographic submissions now for a photographic exhibition in November 2000 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Queensland. We are looking for images that capture lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community life in Queensland at the dawn of the 21st Century.
A calendar of selected images commem-orating this important milestone will be produced for 2001. Major prizes to be won. Send to Queensland AIDS Council, PO Box 3142 South Brisbane Business Centre 4101.
For more info call Stephen Scott on 07 3844 1990 or email info@quac.org.au

haikam
Friday 23 June - Sunday 30 July
Noon - 5.00pm and during theatre performances @ River level,
Riverside Gallery Space, Brisbane Powerhouse
Free Entry
Cybersurrealist Haikam, a Loatian-Australian artist, mines the underground of fetish and fantasy for inspiration, decorating her digital works with nipples, lips and lashes, leather, latex and exotic shoes. Catch her first exhibition of delicious large scale photographs in the flesh at Brisbane Powerhouse.
For info call Brisbane Powerhouse on 07 3254 4000 or visit the website at www.brisbanepowerhouse.org

gaze upon flowers
a photographic exhibition by debra walsh
Saturday 24 June - Sunday 30 July
@ Bongo's Cafe, corner of Macquarie & Florence Streets, Teneriffe
Free entry

For info call 07 3252 3911 or email dphotography@hotmail.com

white king, blak queen
Friday 23 June - Sunday 30 July @ Turbine Level,
Brisbane Powerhouse
Monday - Friday 9am-5pm Saturday 12 noon-5pm
Free Entry
Clinton Nain, one of Australia's leading young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists presents an exhibition of remarkable poetic strength which deals with issues of race, gender and colour stereotyping.
ÔIf White King, Blak Queen were showing in New York, it would be the traffic-stopping talk of the town...Sentiment? There's none. Passion? By the bucketload. Imprecation? I should say so.' Bruce James, Sydney Morning Herald
For info call Brisbane Powerhouse on 07 3254 4000 or visit the website at www.brisbanepowerhouse.org