Exhibition

Queer Algorithms

 

15 February – 27 June 2020

 

John Walter

United Kingdom

 

Evan Ifekoya

United Kingdom

 

Ursula Mayer

Austria/United Kingdom

 

Aliyah Winter

Aotearoa New Zealand

 

Shannon Novak

Aotearoa New Zealand

 

Yuki Kihara

Sāmoa/Aotearoa New Zealand

 

Shu Lea Cheang

Taiwan

 

Bronte Perry

Aotearoa New Zealand

 

micha cárdenas

USA

 

Martine Gutierrez

USA

 

essa may ranapiri

Ngāti Raukawa, Aotearoa New Zealand

Algorithms are problem-solving operations. They are a set of rules that help us calculate, decode and define. But what happens when these set of rules are ‘queered’?

This exhibition brings together a plurality of voices where identities are understood as always multifarious and in flux. Assuming a polyvocal and intersectional standpoint, Queer Algorithms features artists whose artworks have and are in the process of reconfiguring new algorithms for change against continued systems of exclusion.

Gus Fisher Gallery has worked with the New Zealand AIDS Foundation and Ending HIV on the presentation of individual panels from the National Aids Memorial Quilt as part of the exhibition. Queer Algorithms showcases artworks by international artists never seen before in Aotearoa working in the mediums of video, installation and internet art.

This exhibition is part of Auckland Arts Festival 2020, and the public programme is supported by the Rule Foundation.

 

New Zealand Sign Language Interpretations

Introduction to Queer Algorithms
Evan Ifekoya
John Walter
Ursula Mayer, Atom Spirit, 2017

 

Download

List of works
Event sheet

 

Press

Samuel Te Kani, To queer or not to queer: What can galleries do to address homophobia? The Spinoff, 5 April 2020.

Events

Queer Algorithms

 

Exhibition opening: Queer Algorithms
14 February 2020

Art & donuts: the NZ AIDS memorial quilt special
15 February 2020

Building inter-generational queer love: a panel talk
29 February 2020

Performance: John Walter, m_Doomsday {Shitney (exorcism)}
12 March 2020

Tarot reading with John Walter
13 March 2020

Talk: Conversion therapy in Aotearoa
21 May 2020

Remembering Brandon: a kōrero on trans visibility
18 June 2020

An evening of poetry with essa may ranapiri and friends
25 June 2020

An introduction to web development
27 June 2020 

 

Gus Fisher Gallery
74 Shortland Street
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Central 1010

Tuesday – Friday:
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Saturdays:
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