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Queer Futures Writing Lab
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29 January 2023
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Queer Futures is an interdisciplinary community gathering around a shared interest in queer feminist science fiction and experimental writing practises. Together we critically explore near and far speculative possibilities of queerness, technology, bodies, gender, ecology and community.
We are a drop-in community of online and offline interactions, meeting monthly in our virtual writing lab were we take turns sharing aspects of our writing process with each other. Our sessions are fluid in structure and adapt to the mood of those present, usually flowing between discussion, collective writing, storytelling and experience sharing. You can read more about our upcoming sessions here. We took the winter to reshape and evolve into a fully formed, updated iteration of the Writing Room, which I started with my collaborator, Miche O'Higgins, in March 2022. We're excited to launch our new website and instagram page for the occasion and look forward to a year's worth of montlhy meetings. |
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Walking Dimensions at Sedek
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31 August 2022
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My super8 experimental film work from 2014, "Walking Dimensions" will be screened at the Ptilia event at Sedek (Beit Alliance), Jerusalem tomorrow, 31 August.
Ilan Barkani, Noam Ahdut, Maya Pennington, and Gidon Levy - members of the Sedek collective - will play in a new group performance, developed through a collaborative process, based on improvisation, and on voluntary game-like relations of guiding and being guided. Sedek was founded in 2020 by artists from the fields of music, sound, dance and performance, based in jerusalem. The members of the collective run a shared space for experimental creative work, and maintain a supportive infrastructure for artists to engage with their audience, create and collaborate. |
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New Collaborative work at MusraraMix Festival - 30.11.21 @ 21:20
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30 November 2021
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Premiere of new sound/visual performance with Zohar Shafir (Nicoteen) and Ma'ayan Tsadka, inspired by Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto.
Facebook event Festival site |
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SEA Conference at the University of Haifa, July 14-15
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14-15 July 2021
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I have been invited to participate in a cross-disciplinary panel about the intersections of art, science and education on the subject of marine life, as well as create a new set of work based on this theme.
Panels will take place in the Haifa and Northern region between July 14th and 15th. |
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A Lonewolf in Tel Aviv
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12-21 November 2020
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Randy's first hit single and music video "Lone Wolf" has been selected and will be screened at TLV/Fest #15, online between 12-21 November.
You can see the program here. |
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...And a Randy New Year
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January/April 2020
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It took me a few years to "come out" about my drag persona as a performative practice, but as I started working with more and more professional musicians in Israel, I began to realize how important music and performance was for me.
It was a combination of that, and not being able to find a suitable lip sync for my drag performances at bar shows, which led me to create my own music under alter ego Randy Miller. And now, after a year, I'm so excited to announce that I'm diving head first in making my(his) first full length album: Randy Miller and the Earthly Crisis! It will be a multi-genre, post-apocalyptic rock opera set in the future in which Randy, brined alcohol on the eve of the cataclysmic event, reawakens 100 years in the future to discover that everything he has ever known is gone. And in other good news: I just found out that Randy's first "hit single" and music video, Lone Wolf, as been accepted into the ClexaCon Film Festival in Nevada, USA! It will be making it's US premiere at the festival in April.
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CRSF Liverpool / Official Selection - Splice Film Festival
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06 June/ 22 June 2019
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on June 6th, I presented a paper at the University of Liverpool on two of my works: xPlace/Space and a new work in progress within the context of Speculative Art.
Later in the month, my film xPlace/Space:008 screened at Splice Film Festival in Brooklyn, NY, USA. I'm glad for these opportunities to have public conversations about my work, especially as it relates to a growing fascination on the philosophy existing as a person in 2019 both virtually and physically and how our ideas of borders must be challenged in such times. If we are able to virtually traverse so many places through our screens, we must seriously consider how that translates to the physical world. |
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Minshar Exhibition Documentation
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31 March 2019
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We had a great run of our new, site-specific work 'Reconstruct in Minshar' at Gallery Minshar in Tel Aviv and can now share the freshly cut documentation excerpt from the installation. Thanks to all who came to the opening, and throughout the duration of the exhibition.
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KinoEar in Tel Aviv
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07-28 February 2019
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KinoEar (myself and composer/musican Maayan Tsakda) premiered a new 2(.5) channel installation at Gallery Minshar in Tel Aviv.
The work opened February 7th and was open until February 28th as a site specific work of the place, sourcing images and sound from Minshar School which we edited into a re-composition of the space. Documentation coming soon... |
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September News
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posted: 23 September 2018
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שיח לוחמים: פרולוג | Soldier's Talks: Prologue
opened September 20th at Binyamin Gallery in Tel Aviv יוני ניב ותום סולוביציק אורי נועם ודני ויליאמסון Yoni Niv and Tom Soloveitzik Uri Noam and Dani Williamson בהשתתפות: אלכס דרול, יוסי מר חיים, פסח סלבוסקי וחגי פרטשמן. Featuring: Alex Drool, Yossi Mar-Chaim, Pesach Slabosky and Haggai Fershtman מיצב אופראי. ארבעה גברים לבנים,למודי קרבות בשדה האמנות והחיים, מתכנסים על גבי מסכי וידאו לשיחה מדומיינת סביב מושגים של חברות,אמנות זמן וזיכרון. - - - - - XPS exhibited at Rules to Play By in St. Louis, MO - July 27-29, 2018 - - - - - גג אורדר | Gag Order No. 2 - July 6, 2018 with performances by: Yael Barolsky, Orr Sinay, Maayan Tsadka + myself |
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Summer Updates
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posted: 06 June 2018
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New projects and other happenings on the horizon.. and I'm happy to announce that xPlace/Space will be shown at the Rules to Play By exhibition at the Flow Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri, July 27-29.
Also around the corner are two new experimental events which I am organizing in Tel Aviv: Gag Order | גג אורדר - a night of live video + sound on a rooftop in Jaffa. Boidem Gallery: Exhibition no. 01 - a bathroom gallery with premieres of a new sound installation by Maayan Tsadka and video installation by me (plus live performances by Chanan Ben Simon and more). |
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