Archives Beyond Activism Workshop
This workshop collaboration is with Dallas Contemporary’s DABF Satellite Programming—a citywide initiative celebrating the creativity and community at the heart of art book publishing, as part of this year’s Dallas Art Book Fair.
Free admission, limited capacity
In this workshop, attendees will put archival images classified as LBGT in dialogue with their own photo libraries, creating a new artifact that can be left in a public place. We will each use the space of one page to think about what queerness and transness actually is in the world — the way it liberates people, the way it threatens all structures meant to oppress everyone. And we’ll go behind the scenes of iconic images in various social campaigns to understand fully how tender, personal experience fuels collective action.
This workshop is facilitated by Lyndsay Knecht, Editorial and Engagement Lead of Red Hot and will include music from the nonprofit label’s catalog with an emphasis on TRAИƧA, the 46-track spiritual journey featuring 100+ contributors celebrating trans artistry and influence. Admission is free. Attendees will receive information about archives accessible to them for future projects. For those who are not able to make it, RSVPed patrons will still receive this information at a later time through email.
Eat the Night (Postponed to Feb 20th)
Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, 2024, France, 107 min
Pablo, a small-time drug dealer, and his teenage sister Apolline have forged an unbreakable bond through their shared obsession with the online video game Darknoon. When Pablo falls for the mysterious Night, he gets swept up in their liaison, abandoning his sister to deal with the impending shutdown of their digital haven alone. As Pablo’s reckless choices provoke the wrath of a dangerous rival gang, the end of their virtual life draws near, upending their reality. The newest vision from Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel ('Jessica Forever') is a bittersweet apocalyptic love story with a modern MMORPG twist.