OUT: Queer Looking, Queer Acting Revisited

The Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, NS, 2014. 

Curated by Robin Metcalfe in collaboration with Emily Davidson, Genevieve Flavelle, Beck Gilmer-Osborne, and Adan Myatt.

This exhibition revisited OUT: Queer Looking, Queer Acting: Lesbian and Gay Vernacular, curated by long-time gay activist Robin Metcalfe at the Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery in 1997. Comprised of ephemeral, mostly print materials, the exhibition documented queer activist struggles in Halifax between 1972 and 1997. The exhibition included print multiples, such as posters, handbills, T-shirts, and pins; video and film; performance documentation, including drag shows and political demonstrations and their props; and ways of marking, creating, and animating queer space within urban and architectural contexts. The restaged exhibition also included a sampling of recent materials representing the current wave of Queer activism in Halifax. Activists and artists Emily Davidson, Beck Gilmer-Osborne and Genevieve Flavelle participated in both creating and selecting many of the materials from the present decade. The 144-page catalogue accompanying OUT includes a complete reprint of the 1997 publication, with additional images and texts by Metcalfe, Gilmer-Osborne and Flavelle, and activist Rebecca Rose.

Copies of the reissued catalogue Out: Queer Looking, Queer Acting Revisited are available here.