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Hamilton Now: Subject is inspired by the deep roots of culture and creativity in Hamilton and the recent influx of so many more artists to the city. The exhibition features the work of eight local artists, and takes up the key aspects of who we are and how we manifest ourselves in an increasingly fractured world.
Over the course of two years Nedda Baba and Amber Helene Müller S.t Thomas have been performing gestures for 12, a public performance project primarily aimed at addressing queer discrimination stemming from their own lived experience.
Come see this powerful piece and other phenomenal works by Hamilton artists before it’s gone!
https://www.artgalleryofhamilton.com/…Hamilton Now: Subject is inspired by the deep roots of culture and creativity in Hamilton and the recent influx of so many more artists to the city. The exhibition features the work of eight local artists, and takes up the key aspects of who we are and how we manifest ourselves in an increasingly fractured world. …
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Introduction
Introduction
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Introduction
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Why Subject
Why Subject
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Why Subject
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Remembrance
Remembrance
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Remembrance
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Conclusion
Conclusion
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Conclusion
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Introduction
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I’m Metta Baba my name is Amber molar C
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Thomas and our performance project is
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titled 12 together in graduate school
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through a series of conversations we had
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though our everyday lived experience as
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queer and biphobia
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we came to the realization that there
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really needed to be more space for
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discussions around the everyday
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discrimination that we and other queer
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people face so we thought it was really
Why Subject
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important to make work that because a
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lot of the issues that we face are of
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course between queer people and non
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clear people and heteronormativity is a
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big issue but then of course there are a
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lot of issues within the queer community
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as well and the murders like another
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sort of layer of normativity and one of
Remembrance
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our projects title remembrance
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reiterated we sort of tackled the media
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narrative surrounding the Orlando
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shooting of course it was such a big
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tragedy and everybody was mourning it
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and it was really important and it was a
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really important moment in queer
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discrimination and all that kind of
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thing but at the same time there are so
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many other tragedies that happen in
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other parts of the world with racialized
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folks and other countries outside of the
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West that we don’t often hear about so
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when we were doing this performance we
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essentially wrote out all the names with
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Orlando shooting and then pulled out
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names from other instances that happen
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in other parts of the world as well and
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kind of put them together so that was a
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big issue that we talked about a lot
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throughout the making of this project as
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well since we were in school we really
Conclusion
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wanted it to be experimental we embraced
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failure within the project and
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essentially we’re just interested in
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going into public spaces and doing very
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simple what I guess we would call queer
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gestures and kind of clearing public
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space and disrupting space disrupting
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space you have to kind of bring
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attention to some of these issues
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you
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