Queer Summer Institute
mary bunch & john greyson
Inspired by radical new poetic methods of digital and intermedial storytelling, transgressive visual techniques emerging from new media platforms, and new activisms engaging with theories of homonationalism, pinkwashing and a global queer (un)commons, the QSI offers students immersion in the debates, voices, ideas and images of the current queer/trans digital moment.
A green screen stage is a live theatre venue is surrounded by a tv screen, film equipment, production crew and performers.
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This month long series The Institute features two, interconnected graduate courses: THST 6350: Performing the Queer (Un)commons, taught by Mary Bunch and FILM 5020: Global Queer Cinemas Confront the Pink Line, taught by John Greyson. It also functioned as a Global Field School for the Hemispheric Encounters Partnership Grant (Laura Levin). The course included a month long series of workshops, public talks, panels, screenings and perfomances and concluded with a live / digital cabaret.
An exciting roster of international artists and scholars were featured, including: Zackie Achmat (Apostles of Civilized Vice), Vanessa Andreotti (Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism); Sa'ad Atshan (Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique), Shu Lea Cheang (Fluidø), TL Cowen (Cabaret Comnons), Warren Crichlow (Spaces of New Colonialism), Theo Cuthand (Kwêskosîw (She Whistles), Billy G Frank (Second Eulogy: Mind the Gap), Mark Gevisser (The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers), Andil Gosine (Nature's Wild), Nadia Grenados (Queda Lejos del Corazón), Chase Joynt (Framing Agnes), Moynan King (Trace, Canoe), Stephen Lawson (2boystv), Leena Manimekalai (White Van Stories), Dolleen Tisawii'ashii Manning (Murmuration of Birds: An Anishinaabe Ontology of Mnidoo-Worlding), Tim McCaskell (Queer Progress: From Homophobia to Homonationalism), Allyson Mitchell (Killjoy’s Kastle), Michelle Mohabeer (Queer Coolie-tudes), Archer Pechawis (Horse), Abdullah Qureshi (Mela Jaloos), Jasmine Rault (Cabaret Commons), Ian Rashid (Sort Of), Elyla Sinverguneza (Countering Colonialism: a Queer Ritual of Healing).
