OPENING RECEPTION!! September 9, 2010 (Thursday) from 5-8pm at
SF Camerawork 657 MIssion St., San Francisco (btw New Montgomery and 3rd St).

Hello & welcome to another Killer Banshee Scream. We have a full installational version of "Unleashed Power" installed at SF Camerawork for this show. A new studio performance of the video piece, enlargements mounted of the evidence photos, ephemera, & the full deposition printed so you can page through it yourself. We are looking forward to seeing you. If you aren't already basically familiar with our Unleashed Power piece here's the one sentence description:
Unleashed Power uses found & personal footage, imagery & text pulled from deposition transcripts to examine the history of ACT-UP demonstrations and police violence through the lens of a single incident...the violence visited on Kriss during the Chicago ACT-UP AMA Demo in June of 1991.

There are links at the bottom of this email to read & see more about Unleashed Power. There are 15 other artists showing work in this show, so there will be lots to see! Don't miss it!

Opening Reception for the Fall Exhibition

Join us for an evening reception from 5 - 8 pm

OPENING: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9TH
SUGGESTIONS OF A LIFE BEING LIVED

Suggestions of a Life Being Lived is a bold presentation of contemporary work that looks at queerness as a set of political alliances and possibilities. The exhibition features 16 artists working in photography, film, video, activism and education, and was organized for SF Camerawork by guest curators Danny Orendorff and Adrienne Skye Roberts. Untethered to institutions of sexual or gender normativity and in pursuit of greater freedoms, the work in this exhibition represents queer activism, intentional and imagined communities, self-determinism, and DIY alternative world-making.

Suggestions of a Life Being Lived begins from a place of “outness” and considers how a sense of liberated queerness is pursued and mediated within public spaces and behaviors. Less concerned with categorical sexual identities or coming-out narratives, this exhibition presents work that looks outward towards collective and resistant expressions of queer community existing outside of dominant gay and lesbian culture.

Featuring work by: killer banshee, Steven Miller, Tara Mateik, Gay Shame, Kirstyn Russell, Jeannie Simms, Lenn Keller, Mercury Vapor Studios, Chris Vargas, Greg Youmans, Jason Fritz Michael, Aay Preson-Myint, Allyson Mitchell, Eric Stanley, Torsten Zenas Burns, and Darrin Martin.

September 9—October 23, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 9, 5 - 8 pm
Stop by after work on September 9, enjoy some wine and music, and check out this exciting exhibition!

More Information >>

Image credits left to right: Kirstyn Russell, killer banshee, Steven Miller

Unleashed Power
killerbanshee.com/video/perf_lpv_unleashed.html
blog.sfmoma.org/2009/06/a-queer-time-and-place/
flickr.com/photos/kbanshee/sets/72157624895433542/

killer banshee
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West Oakland, CA
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