War – 2005
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WAR
National Queer Arts Festival 2005
Visual Arts Exhibition
SomArts Gallery, San Francisco
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What does it mean to be at War?
To be at war with another / or with oneself. Racial / Gender / Cultural / Environmental War. War of Values / of Words. War against Bodies / against Sexuality / against Civil Liberties / against Human Rights / against Self-Expression. War with one’s identity / within one’s family / within one’s community. War with another country / within one’s own country. The weapons of fear. The weapons of mass destruction. The weapons of shame. The weapons of self-loathing. The violence of hate. The violence of righteousness. The violence of intolerance. The violence of ignorance. The violence of transformation. The destruction of cultures. The destruction of community. The destruction of self. The atrocities of war. The cancer of apathy. -Rudy Lemcke
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Participating Artists |
| Martin Allman United Kingdom Veruska Bellestri Italy Bill Bowers United States Cathy Cade United States Lee Campbell United Kingdom Mario Chejab Columbia Tyler Cohen United States Eliot K. Daughtry United States Michael Derry United States Jenn DeWald United States Ben Fife & Brent Armendinger United States Jamie Griffiths United Kingdom/Canada Kenneth Hemmerick Canada Eva Henneberry United States Sherri Hepler United States Valerie Jacobs United States Shannon Jamieson Canada David Leroi United States Libera Mazzoleni Italy Mitcho United States Thomas Plagemann United States Ricardo Regules Mexico Lacey Jane Roberts United States David Rodrigues United Kingdom Tejal Shah India José Silva-Rosinhas Portugal Lieve Snellings Belgium Sandra Ortiz Taylor United States Andrew Thomas Germany Skye Thorstenson United States Christian W. Right United States Lanayé Yriqui La Yaqui United States Roberta Zerbi Zoppi Italy |
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Kim Anno Gallery Director Artistic Director, Qcc WAR was funded by a generous grant |
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