Queer Frontiers: „Rex vs Singh“ Discussion Between curator Aaditya Aggarwal and artists Ali Kazimi, John Greyson & Richard Fung

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LOMAA’s Queer Frontiers series presented a iscussion between curator Aaditya Aggarwal and artists Ali Kazimi, John Greyson & Richard Fung on Sunday November 28, 2021. Closed Captioning and ASL available.

Below is a list of recommended readings and media from curator Aaditya Aggarwal:

-Harjant Gill’s Sent Away Boys (2016)
-Nayan Shah’s Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West
-Transnational hair (and turban): Sikh masculinity, embodied practices, and politics of representation in an era of global travel by Harjant Gill
-Placing the Transnational Urban Migrant by Margaret Walton-Roberts and Harjant Gill
-Deepali Dewan’s We’ll Take Your Artifacts But Not Your People
-Richard Fung’s Dirty Laundry
-Ali Kazimi’s Undesirables: White Canada and the Komgata Maru
-Ali Kazimi’s Continuous Journey

-John Greyson’s Fig Trees
-Jagdeep Raina’s Waiting for Nothing
-Gloria Ho’s portraits of Komagata Maru passengers
The Diaspora that Never Happened, Aaditya Aggarwal
-Decolonizing Visual Anthropology by Harjant Gill
How Milind Soman Made Me Gay: Exploring Issues of Belonging and Citizenship amongst Gay South Asian Men in Diaspora by Harjant Gill

Aaditya Aggarwal is a writer, editor and film curator based in Toronto and New Delhi. He has formerly worked in administrative, marketing and curatorial roles at Mercer Union, Images Festival, Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival and TIFF. Aaditya has contributed writing to Canadian Art, The New Inquiry, Rungh Magazine, Ethnic Aisle, Trinity Square Video, South Asian Visual Arts Centre, Koffler Digital and FADO Performance Art Centre, among other outlets. His work seeks to blur the lines between creative nonfiction and narrative forms.

Ali Kazimi’s films have received over thirty national and international awards including a Gemini and two Genie nominations. His work has been screened in dozens of festivals and broadcast on many networks. His films include Runaway Grooms (2005), Continuous Journey (2004), Shooting Indians (1998) and Narmada: A Valley Rises (1994). He teaches at York University.

John Greyson is a Toronto video/film artist. Since 1984, his many features, shorts and transmedia works have explored such queer activist issues as police violence, prison, AIDS activism, solidarity, homo-nationalism and apartheid (both South African and Israeli). These include International Dawn Chorus Day (2021), Mercurial (2018), Gazonto (2016), Murder in Passing (2013), Fig Trees (2009), Lilies (1996), Zero Patience (1993), The Making of Monsters (1991) and Urinal (1989).

Richard Fung a Trinidad-born, Toronto-based video artist and writer. His most recent works are Dal Puri Diaspora (2012), Re:Orientations (2016) and Nang by Nang (2018). He is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University.

LOMAA’s Queer Frontiers critically reflects on Canada’s 50th anniversary celebration of the purported “decriminalization” of homosexuality in the country. Serving as a counter to the state revelries, LOMAA will host 8 artists, artist duos, or curators who have established practices post-legislation and remain on the frontiers of Canadian queer media. This project centres queer narratives and praxis as a means to interrogate historical representation and continue fortifying queer futures within this country.

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London Ontario Media Arts Association (LOMAA) is a regional, emerging non-profit, artist-run organization focused on the exhibition of alternative and experimental time-based and media art. With an emphasis on progressive contemporary Canadian practices, LOMAA supports the presentation of local, national, and international artists in the areas of moving images, performance, new media, and sound art.
www.lomaa.ca

LOMAA would like to thank Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and London Arts Council for their support of this program and their continued backing.