Inside Killjoy's Kastle : dykey ghosts, feminist monsters, and other lesbian hauntings / edited by Allyson Mitchell and Cait McKinney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mitchell, Allyson, editor.

McKinney, Cait, 1983- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance art.

Installations (Art).

Canada.

Mitchell, Allyson.

Logue, Deirdre, 1964-.

Logue, Deirdre.

Installations (Art)--Canada--21st century.

Performance art--Canada--21st century.

Feminism in art.

Lesbianism in art.

Physical Description:

xii, 220 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, BC : UBC Press ; Toronto, ON : Art Gallery of York University, [2019]

Summary:

"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 that haunt feminist and queer history. Where traditional hell houses set out to scare and convert, Killjoy's Kastle cheekily aims to provoke and pervert. Inside Killjoy's Kastle extends and reflects on the theoretical and political legacies of the installation in chapters by queer and feminist scholars and in vignettes by participating artists. The many colourful photos in the book also bring the Kastle to life, offering an important visual context."-- Provided by publisher.

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:"We Learn More Every Time We Do This"

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Inside Killjoy's Kastle.

ISBN:

9780774861571

0774861576

OCLC:

1073092038

Publisher Number:

99982269760