Thank you for joining the 2021 Queer Spectra Arts Festival
Our 2021 festival has come to a close and we can’t be more grateful for the artists, presenters, workshop hosts, and audiences that made our event possible! Our 2021 festival Keynote, panel discussions, playlist, and artist information is available below!
THE QUEER & NOW
"Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality… Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough, that indeed something is missing.”
– José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia
The 2021 Queer Spectra Arts Festival aims to explore the following questions.
What is queer time?
What is a queer space?
How do you experience or create a queer time and place?
What potentialities does queer art have to offer?
How does queer art reimagine the future?
How does your art create and explore new worlds?
How does queer art interact with the past, present, and future?
What role does queer desire play in your art?
A note from our festival organizers
Welcome to the 2021 Festival! Learn more about the festival from a few of our organizers! Introductory video created by the spectacular 2021 festival intern, Yein Ji.
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Please note: All times are in Mountain Time.
The festival gallery will be open starting at 9am on Saturday. Please explore the gallery at your convenience throughout the weekend!
SATURDAY MAY 22, 2021
9AM: Welcome to the 2021 Queer Spectra Arts Festival
11AM: Tales of Magiclandia Workshop with Tori Meyer and Nora Lang
3PM: Keynote Presentation by Timothy White Eagle
7PM: Virtual Slumber Party with the Artists! Pull up the popcorn and get ready to talk about a year of art-making from our bedrooms.
SUNDAY MAY 23, 2021
11AM: Body Curiosity: Movement workshop with Alexandra Barbier
3PM: Exploring Queer Futures Panel Discussion with the Artists
5PM: Live-Stream Performance by Indigo Cook followed by closing Remarks
The Gallery
The Queer Spectra Arts Festival 2021 Gallery is closed. We extend our gratitude to everyone who participated this year’s festival!
Learn more about the festival artists and adjudication process!
LET THE MUSIC PLAY!
Community Playlist
This year, Queer Spectra asked our community to share songs for our community playlist. Did you have a song that got you through the past year? What songs made you dream of queer futures and horizons imbued with potentiality? Maybe there was a song that made you see a future where this world is enough!
Check out our Queer Spectra 2021 Playlist!