EXHIBITIONS
INSTALLATION & PHOTO EXHIBITIONS
- SUNDAY 8th November ‘08
- RITZY
Installation on screen in downstairs cafe - FREE
- Relinquary 2 - Simon Croft (2008)
Relinquary 2 Uses the Image of a house to represent the body as a home, a vehicle to express identity and a site subject to a social expectation and judgement. It documents a process of ‘constructive destruction’ where the paremeters of the process are known but the outcome is uncertain. In doing so, It reflects on the nature of physical and personal change
PHOTO EXHIBITIONS
Sam Nightingale - London (2008)
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Sam Nightingale is a photographic artist based in London. Sam is occupied with visualising the urban, the banal and the everyday through the medium of photography.The work that he will show during the festival will question what it means to have a ‘trans-eye’ and how this relates to representation. In particular looking at space and place: both in terms of the space represented within the image frame and context created by way of the work being situated within a transgendered film festival. 
Debra Kate is an international performer, photographer and trans activist based out of Berlin, Germany. This selection of photos is taken from a larger documentation of drag and gender expression performance cultures, and those who are involved; both on stage and off. Debra Kate’s photographs have been published in the first German language drag king book, “Drag Kings: Mit Bartkleber gegen das Patriarchat” (Querverlag, 2007), and most recently, Debra Kate was the keynote speaker for the 10th anniversary of the International Drag King Community Extravaganza in Columbus, Ohio, USA. www.debrakate.com for more details- Andie Barlow is exhibiting an installation ‘Cleaning Fairy’ which is inspired by Drag Queens. She is interested in glamour in an exaggerated form and the sometimes humourous and ridiculous way this is represented in old fashioned advertising, relating to ideal imagery of being a fully competent housewife in daily chores, whilst looking like a goddess. In this piece the drag queen’s exaggerated glamour and the ‘old fashioned ideal woman’ are connected.