Queer Discussions: Clear Expectations and systemic oppression – the necessity of transgender and gender diverse inclusion in the arts

Queer Discussions
Let’s Talk About Queer
GREAT HALL, NGV INTERNATIONAL

Take a journey into queer culture and community through a series of discussions exploring how and why the language used by and in reference to queer and LGBTQ+ communities has developed over time. This five-part series will explore the importance of language within queer communities, through the lenses of art, literature, history, culture and community building.

Clear Expectations: Guidelines for Institutions, Galleries and Curators Working with Trans, Non-Binary and Gender Diverse Artists

Join NGV curator Pip Wallis in discussion with artist Archie Barry about the development of Clear Expectations: Guidelines for Institutions, Galleries and Curators working with Trans, Non-Binary and Gender Diverse Artists. This resource details best practice and tools for the contemporary arts when working with trans, non-binary and gender diverse creatives.

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Pip Wallis, Curator, Contemporary Art, NGV.

Archie Barry’s work is autobiographical, somatic and process-led, speaking to ideas of personhood and embodiment. Cultivating a genealogy of personas based on their own experiences of power and mortality, they create unsettling connections with audiences through disquieting bodily gestures, de-formed and re-formed language. Barry has presented solo exhibitions at The Heide Museum of Modern Art (2020 – 2021) and Blindside Gallery (2019). Barry’s work has been presented in a range of group settings including The National Gallery of Victoria (2021, 2019), The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2017, 2020), The Museum of Contemporary Art (2019), Contemporary Art Tasmania (2019) and Monash University Museum of Art (2022) amongst other spaces. They have given performance lectures and artist talks at The Centre for Contemporary Photography (2018), The National Gallery of Victoria (2019), Parsons and The New School (2018, 2020), Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2020) and Monash University Museum of Art (2019).