Live Art:
INFINITE CITY: MONARCHS AND QUEENS
- When
- Sat Jul 17, 2010
- Where
- Randall Museum
- Time
- 4:00pm
- Tags
- Arts, Museums, Modern Art Museums
Description
Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San FranciscoWith art by Mona Caron and an essay by Aaron Shurin, this broadside map juxtaposes the habitats of local butterflies with the shifting locations of queer public space. By paralleling two dozen butterflies — two of which, the Brown Satyr and Xerxes Blue, are now extinct — with both vibrant and lost LGBTQ landmarks, a particularly shimmering flight pattern of San Francisco denizens comes to light.
When Monarchs Meet Queens: A Reading & Conversation
Aaron Shurin, poet
Nan Alamilla Boyd, department chair and associate professor, Women and Gender Studies, SF State University
Mia Monroe, park ranger, National Park Service
After hill-topping with the butterflies, join us on the top of another hill, this one overlooking the Castro, for a thought-provoking afternoon linking together the shifting cultures of gays and butterflies. In discussion will be poet Shurin, who authored the "Monarchs and Queens" broadside text; Boyd, the author of Wide-Open Town, a history of queer culture in San Francisco before 1965; and Monroe, park ranger at the Muir Woods National Monument, who will tie together this map's many fancy flyers.
More Info
- Link
- http://www.sfmoma.org/events/1684
- Call
- 415-357-4000
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