The 20th annual staging of performance, sound/digital arts, and spoken word focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual, post-gender-identified, queer artisans, and supportive allies.
Danielle Evennou, spoken word NEON.BEV.CLICK, performance Jan Swinburne, video (Crackers) CK Barlow, performance BLK w/BEAR, video (Channel Mapping)
Danielle Evennou is a writer who grew up in suburban New Jersey. For over a decade, she has kept herself busy by hosting poetry readings, workshops, and open mics in Washington, DC. Her poetry and memoir appear in apt, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Dryland, and Split Lip Magazine. Her chapbook, DIFFICULT TRICK, is available from dancing girl press. https://www.whatevennou.com/
NEON.BEV.CLICK is Bev Stanton, who was born in the Bahamas and raised near Walt Disney World. She has won over a dozen Washington Area Music Awards in the Electronica category. Her music has appeared in shows on the Discovery Channel, VH1, MTV and other cable television networks. Stanton is one of 24 female electronic artists and deejays profiled in Pink Noises: Women in Electronic Music and Sound (Tara Rodgers; Duke University Press, 2010). Her other projects include Arthur Loves Plastic, the ukulele-driven Sad Veiled Bride, shoegaze-influenced Loopurr, and the Novparolo duo with Winston Psmith. https://neon.bev.click/
Jan Swinburne is a Canadian visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice makes use of traditional and digital media. Swinburne approaches all media from a painter’s sensibility, and this drives her aesthetic. At times, her work mutates into large-scale, site-sensitive installations and projects. An experimental approach to art is central to her practice. As a video artist, Swinburne’s interest is oriented to meta-exposure and the cultural and political implications of image degeneration. Swinburn will present Crackers (05:32) on 06 June. https://www.janswinburne.com/
A 2015 transplant to Baltimore from New Mexico’s rich experimental music scene, CK Barlow turns real-time and field recordings into performable solo pieces using a variety of hardware instruments, laptops and mobile devices. As an ensemble player, CK spent 14 years with the acclaimed avant-orchestral conduction-improv group Out of Context using a custom live-sampling setup. Other NM bands included Useless Eaters (w/JA Deane and DJ Ultraviolet), and mJane with Molly Sturges — along with a variety of rock, metal and salsa bands. She has scored two feature-length films and dozens of short films, theater productions and choreographic works; and has had music used in more than 200 different television series. http://www.ckbarlow.com/
BLK w/BEAR “…are like Basic Channel at their most abstract, and after a serious nervous breakdown." (The Wire) Based in Washington DC, BLK w/BEAR first garnered glowing reviews and international airplay for the thought-provoking and moving Wish for a World without Hurt collaboration with London's Rothko. Their audio has accompanied film/video projects in NYC and London and selections from Wish for a World were used in the Discovery Channel's poignant The Flight that Fought Back program. Filmmaker H. Paul Moon / Zen Violence has used their music as soundtrack to his Walt Whitman trilogy. MO RE B ROKEN TH AN Y OU (LCR) is their most recent album, with additional tracks released on Front & Follow. Fuzzy Panda Recording Co., and Trace Recordings compilations. JS Adams has used the pandemic isolation to create archival reconstructions utilizing rediscovered backing tracks, three of those re-imagined tracks are being presented during QU2020 online. http://artbear.com/
Each year a portion of QUEERING SOUND proceeds benefit local non-profits; previous recipients include:
HIPS www.hips.org/
CASA RUBY casaruby.org/
CASA DE MARYLAND wearecasa.org/
Center for Reproductive Rights www.reproductiverights.org/about-us/donate
