Queer Life Drawing Conversation: Day With(out) Art 2021: ENDURING CARE

Miles Coote is a visual artist and founder of Bareback Museum. He has led Life Drawing Performance Workshops at venues including Tate Britain, MOCA London gallery, and UK Universities; in collaborations with artists including Owen Parry, Alun Davies, Dalston Ballet Company and members of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.Miles Coote, MA honours in Fine Art

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Welcome to zoom, queer life drawing conversations event featuring the Visual AIDS film screening and interview with artist Roberto Ekholm

Hi and welcome to Queer Life Drawing Conversation. Tonight's session (1st of December) will focus on World AIDS Day awareness, with an interview and life drawing session with artist Roberto Ekholm and followed by the film premiere "Day With(out) Art 2021: ENDURING CARE", from the Visual AIDS organisation.Day With(out) Art 2021: ENDURING CARE

QueerLDC is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2021 by presenting ENDURING CARE, a video program highlighting strategies of community care within the ongoing HIV epidemic. The program features newly commissioned work by Katherine Cheairs, Cristóbal Guerra, Danny Kilbride, Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad and Uriah Bussey, Beto Pérez, Steed Taylor, and J Triangular and the Women’s Video Support Project. From histories of harm reduction and prison activism to the long-term effects of HIV medication, ENDURING CARE centers stories of collective care, mutual aid, and solidarity while pointing to the negligence of governments and non-profits. The program’s title suggests a dual meaning, honoring the perseverance and commitment of care workers yet also addressing the potential for harm from medications and healthcare providers. ENDURING CARE disrupts the assumption that an epidemic can be solved with pharmaceuticals alone, recasting community work as a lasting form of medicine.The event is on Zoom and it is a nude friendly environment. You are invited to collaborate in drawing and conversations, followed by the film screening and discussionRoberto Ekholm (b. Gran Canaria and later moved to Gothenburg, Sweden 1976) studied at Laban Centre and Goldsmiths College, London. His work includes performances, sculpture and photography drawing on our present ideas about identity through discourses of medicine and the body and our environment around us. Recent exhibitions includes Nature Morte (Touring exhibition), Patient Zero &amp; Cousin Mosquito, (MOCA London), The Fall of the Rebel Angels (Venice, 56), Art of not Making (Bukowskis, Sweden),Rock-paper-scissors, (Milan), Re-Imagine:Ourselves, (New York), Touch of The Oracle/Golden Rain, (Palm Springs), The Show, (Barcelona), Where the Men Met, (Stockholm). Crash Open, Charlie Dutton Gallery (London), Inspired by Soane, Sir John Soane’s Museum (London). Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.(18+)Queer Life Drawing Conversation is an art project and event that has developed during the first lockdown as a way to encourage lgbtq individuals to be part of a community and participate in life drawing and conversations online. There is a session led every week and focus is given to developing conversations about nudity, sexuality and queer theory in relation to queer bodies and sexual health. The event attracts between 15-20 participants on a weekly basis, with a number of participants who have attended regularly since the first event.There is a focus each week to introduce a new topic and to develop conversations with the participants and life models. The first topic introduced was queer domesticity and the queer home. Since then a range of topics have developed. There is a diverse group of life models, artists and creatives attending and posing. The structure of the events is open to discussion: with the aim to curate a life model for the main part of the event or a guest model and then open the session up to participants who may wish to pose. The project welcomes collaborations with participants. This year there is an overarching focus on the environment and queer cooperatives.As the project has developed, a queer life drawing art gallery has been setup online to exhibit and sell participants artworks, with a percentage of the sale commission donated to the project. Last year, queer life drawing conversation also participated in a yard sale at a London gallery to sell artworks created by participants.Miles Coote directs and leads Queer Life Drawing Conversation and is the co-founder of the event. He is a visual artist and researcher within the field of queer life drawing and socially engaged practice. In 2015-2019, Miles led the Bareback Museum art project, which explored the use of queer methodologies, life drawing and live art performance, with the aim to open up conversations about sexual health in relation to LGBTQ communities and the introduction of PrEP and (improvements of) PEP.Miles Coote is a visual artist and has led variations of the Bareback Museum Life Drawing Performance Workshop at venues including Tate Britain, MOCA London gallery, UK Universities; in collaborations with artists including Owen Parry, Alun Davies, Dalston Ballet Company and members of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.

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