For their collaborative First Thursdays event, artists Callum McGrath and Lu Forsberg invite you to take part in Serious Queer Business, a group discussion open to queer-identifying individuals and artists. Subverting the structures of a corporate boardroom—traditionally understood to be a white, heteronormative, patriarchal space—the artists stage their own meeting to address the concerns, thoughts, and questions of queer-identifying speakers. Serious Queer Business creates a safe space for queer individuals to bring these concerns to a community discussion, where relationships can be strengthened. Sit in and to add points to the agenda on the day. Topics will include: Curating queer (Brigid Hansen); Non-binary and emerging-gender IDs in the workplace, schools, and other spaces that enforce uniforms (Harrison Sanchez); Am I queer enough? (Courtney Coombs); Who is the contemporary queer subject? (Nicholas Brocchi).
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Callum McGrath
Callum McGrath disrupts and negotiates representations of the queer male identity. His work has featured in group and solo exhibitions including: Passing, West Space, Naarm/Melbourne; Hatched, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; Rose Tinted, FELTspace, Tandanya/Adelaide; and Site (re) Constructed, Bus Projects, Naarm/Melbourne. He is a founding co-director of Cut Thumb ARI, alongside Lu Forsberg.
Lu Forsberg
Lu Forsberg is the recipient of the 2017 Jeremy Hynes Award and will present a new work Transparency and Other Worries at the Institute of Modern Art. Forsberg graduated with a BFA (Visual Arts) honours from the Queensland University of Technology in 2016. They have exhibited at QUT Art Museum, Meanjin/Brisbane (2018); Metro Arts, Meanjin/Brisbane (2017); Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier (2017); and Fu Jen University, New Taipei (2016).