Event Lu Forsberg and Callum McGrath

Lu Forsberg and Callum McGrath

First Thursdays

3 May 2018
6–9pm

  • Event Cost:
    Free

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).

Guest Info
  • 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).

The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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