Sergio Zevallos and Grupo Chaclacayo

Active from 1983 to 1994, the transgressive Peruvian art collective Grupo Chaclacayo worked in media such as photography and performance to create a series of transgressive works that made use of symbols of urban decay, sexuality, and the symbols of powerful…

Allyson Mitchell: Radical Deep Lez Art

Allyson Mitchell utilizes space, scale, film, animation, sound, sculpture, lost materials, and color to create textures and meanings within the large plethora of her work. She criticizes socio-historical phobias of femininity, feminine bodies, colonial histories, as well as venturing…

The Transitory yet Permanent Aesthetic Attack of Dyke Action Machine!

The core purpose of Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!) was to create representation where there was none. To make public, visible, and spoken into existence- lesbian existence. Formed in 1991 by Carrie Moyer and Sue…

Public, Purposeful, Political: Gran Fury.

Gran Fury is most associated with ACT UP and AIDS activism in the ’80s and ’90s. Their bold and brash artistic style became seen as the ACT UP artistic style. Their most associated design is the iconic pink triangle with the words “Silence = Death”…

Derek Jarman, AIDS activist, proponent of queer cinema

Derek Jarman was a British film director, cinematographer, and AIDS activist. Born in Middlesex, England on July 31, 1942, Jarman produced music videos, feature films, and short, experimental films. His work reflects his desire “to read between the lines of history” in…