‘Intertextuel Sapphic Vaporwave’

Exhibition:
25 May 2019 - 17 August 2019 John Hansard Gallery Southampton
Resist: be modern (again)' showcases collaborations between women who, due to either gender, sexuality or ethnicity, have been censored out, devalued or marginalised over time. This exhibition brings their practice and contribution out of the archives and into the foreground. Contemporary artists reactivate and represent these early practices through mapping, transcribing, sampling, referencing, reciting, re-telling or re-making, reclaiming their lasting value and importance for today’s art world and beyond.

Resist: be modern (again) | Performance, Talks and Publication
27 July 2019
This event will focus on some of the themes of the exhibition and will include an afternoon of performance, artist talk, screening and an In Conversation event including artists Riet Wijnen, Gillian Wylde, Alice Maude-Roxby and Stefanie Seibold, followed by a drinks reception.

Publication: Resist: be modern (again) 2019 edited by Alice Maude-Roxby and Stefanie Seibold Printed by Kopa, distributed by Cornerhouse Publications Manchester, UK.

‘Intertextuel Sapphic Vaporwave’ Video work
‘Intertextuel Sapphic Vaporwave’ is a video and text work inspired by the life and work of playwright and political activist, Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965). Hansberry wrote many articles and essays on racism, homophobia, feminisms and class and was the first black female author to have a play performed on Broadway in 1959, winning the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award at the age of 29. Hansberry inspired Nina Simone's song "To Be Young, Gifted and Black". The video work connects modernist forms with queer identities, technologies and language to explore the many feels of the digital present and the before the internet world that keeps going. Networked fur, VHS degradation, and escapee horses glint and vibrate on screens as they mesh with deleted, omitted and left out lives.

Reviews
https://www.aestheticamagazine.com/resonant-ideas/

https://fastforward.photography/resist-be-modern-again-performance-publication-and-talks/

https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/arts-at-unisouth/2019/07/01/review-resist-be-modern-again/

https://fourcommunications.com/resist-be-modern-again/

https://www.a-n.co.uk/media/52560789/