Inside Killjoy's Kastle : dykey ghosts, feminist monsters, and other lesbian hauntings

Book 2019

"Lesbian feminist histories can have a haunting effect on the present. This book explores the making and experience of Killjoy's Kastle, an immersive walk-through installation and performance artwork (by Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue). Inspired by Evangelical Christian hell houses of the past, the exhibition has been staged in three cities so far--Toronto, London, and Los Angeles--engaging thousands in interactive encounters with the spirits...

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Feminism in art

Installations (Art) Canada 21st century

Lesbianism in art

Logue, Deirdre, 1964-

Mitchell, Allyson

Performance art Canada 21st century

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ISBN:

9780774861571

Description:

288 pages

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index
Issued also in electronic format
Co-published by Art Gallery of York University

Contents:

Scaling Up and Sharing Out Dyke Culture: Killjoy's Kastle's Haunted Block Party / Heather Love
Lesbianizing the Institution: The Haunting Effects of Killjoy Hospitality at the Art Gallery of York University / Emelie Chhangur
Feminist Killjoys (and Other Wilful Subjects) / Sara Ahmed
Killjoy in the ONE Archives: Activating Los Angeles's Queer Art and Activist Histories / David Evans Frantz
Inside Job: Collaboration and Queer-Feminist Contagion in Killjoy's Kastle / Helena Reckitt
Valerie Solanas as the Goddamned Welcoming Committee / Felice Shays
Valerie Solanas Script
Playing Demented Women's Studies Professor Tour Guide, or Performing Monstrosity in Killjoy's Kastle / Moynan King
Demented Women's Studies Professor Tour Guide Script
The Sound of White Girls Crying / Nazmia Jamal
Paranormal Killjoys / Ginger Brooks Takahasi
Menstruating Trans Man / Chase Joynt
A Ring around Your Finger Is a Cord around Your Genitals! / Chelsey Lichtman
Once upon a Time I Was a Riot Ghoul / Kalale Dalton-Lutale
Riot Ghoul / Andie Shabbar
Inconvenienced / Madelyne Beckles
On the Cusp of the Kastle / Karen Tongson
Processing Killjoy's Kastle: A Deep Lez Performance / Ann Cvetkovich
Facebook Statements:٢We Learn More Every Time We Do This٣
Refl ections of a Real-Life Feminist Killjoy: Ball-Busters and the Recurring Trauma of Intergenerational Queer-Feminist Life / Kyla Wazana Tompkins
R.I.P. Little Frida's / Chris E. Vargas
Home Sick: Horror, Gothic Storytelling, and the Queers Who Haunt Houses / S. Trimble
The Graveyards of Community Gathering: Archiving Lesbian and Feminist Life in London / Catherine Grant
Leave Britney Alone! and Other Ghostly Feelings / Tobias B.D. Wiggins

Control Number:

2749563

Other Authors:

McKinney, Cait, 1983- editor
Mitchell, Allyson, editor
York University (Toronto, Ont.). Art Gallery, publisher

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