EXHIBITION "Delhi QueerFest 2015" an exhibition of artworks by queer community at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 27th November to 7th December 2015

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27th November : 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 27/11/2015 19:00 27/11/2015 20:30 Asia/Kolkata Opening of "Delhi QueerFest 2015" an exhibition of artworks by queer community Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2015/11/exhibition-delhi-queerfest-2015.html Siddhartha Hall, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001 DD/MM/YYYY - Opening
28th November to 7th December : 10:00 am - 6:00 pm (closed Sundays and national holidays) Add to Calendar 28/11/2015 10:00 07/12/2015 18:00 Asia/Kolkata EXHIBITION "Delhi QueerFest 2015" an exhibition of artworks by queer community Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2015/11/exhibition-delhi-queerfest-2015.html Siddhartha Hall, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001 DD/MM/YYYY - Exhibition on View

Entry : Free


Venue : Siddhartha Hall, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001

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Event Description : "Delhi QueerFest 2015" an exhibition of artworks by queer community. 
The QueerFest 2015 exhibition showcases various visual arts submissions that have been received from the community engaging with ideas of queerness and exploring the question: What does it mean to you to be queer?

Where is Queer? When is Queer? What is Queer?
Since the 19th century, queer has come to mean different things for different places and generations and India has had its own interactions with queerness. For a time, queer seemed to suggest possibilities of sexuality outside the norm at its most powerful – to bring together all the bodies cast outside the norms of one book, one love, one gender, one idea of beauty; to bring together movements that fought such strictures together; to make sexuality about more than L or G or B or T or S or XYZ. Yet at other times, queerness has felt lost, broken or even tamed – reduced of its power to challenge; unable to build the solidarity it promised. 
For the people involved with QueerFest, their belief lay in the power of culture and the power of queerness. This edition of the QueerFest raises new questions: What is queerness now? What should it be? In dark times of violent moralising, censorship and cultural nationalism, can it be reclaimed? 
Can it be used to question, undo, re-imagine? Or has its moment passed? Has it become a word that gets thrown about to mean everything and nothing? If so, how does one now think about what sexuality is, what it should be, what it could be?

About QueerFest 2015: From 2007-11, the Nigah QueerFest was a ten-day annual queer arts festival in Delhi. Community funded, it brought together workshop, film, performances, public gatherings and a visual arts exhibit with a belief that creating queer culture was a powerful form of politics. The festival understood queerness to be any identity, politics or process that challenges dominant norms, seeing it as a powerful and inter-connected way of seeing not just LGBTIQ lives but also the world itself. Though similar in scope, QueerFest 2015 is independent of Nigah and looks forward to active public participation in formulating new directions for the future.

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