Thursday
12:30-2 - QCA Business Meeting
2:30-5 p.m.: “Post-queer?: gender, sexuality and the subversion of legibility” - Caucus-sponsored, session chairs: Noreen Dean Dresser and Jeffery Byrd - list of panelists in October issue of newsletter
5:30-7 p.m. - Welcome Reception - Marriott, Rooms 301/302/303
8-10:30 p.m.: “How do lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered artists address the nude?” - session chairs: Tee Corinne and Sherman Clarke - list of panelists in October issue of newsletter
Friday
12 noon-1:30 p.m.: Caucus forum on “Discrimination in academia: challenging the myth of the liberal arts”
6 pm- - Laurie Toby Edison and Tee Corinne talking about their work at Giovanni’s Room, 345 S. 12th at Pine (details below)
Saturday
7:30-9 pm - Richard Meyer reading from his new book Outlaw representation at Giovanni’s Room, 345 S. 12th St. at Pine (details below)
Exhibitions of interest
Joel Kaylor, Tom Droppelman, and Caucus member Mary Kerr are exhibiting at the William Way LGBT Community Center in Philadelphia during the month of February 2002. William Way Center is within walking distance of the CAA conference hotels and is open seven days a week, from late morning until late evening. From the Marriott: go to the corner of 12th St. and cross Market St. Head south on 12th Street for 5 blocks (passing Chestnut, Sansom, Walnut and Locust), until you reach Spruce St. Turn right. Walk another block up to 13th St. The center is at 1315 Spruce St., phone 215-732-2220 More info on the center at http://www.waygay.org
The CAA Members’ Art Exhibition will be held at the Painted Bride Art Center (230 Vine St., between 2nd & 3rd St.) with the theme “Hopscotch: associative leaps in the construction of narrative.”
EDISON, CORINNE, AND MEYER AT GIOVANNI’S ROOM BOOKSTORE
Two programs by Queer Caucus members will take place at Giovanni’s Room Bookstore in Philadelphia during the CAA conference.
Friday, February 22, 6 p.m., Edison and Corinne Laurie Toby Edison will talk about her three bodies of photographic work: women of Japan, nude men, and fat nude women (Women en large, published by Books in Focus). These were recently exhibited at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan.
Tee A. Corinne will read from and talk about her new book of solarized photographs, Intimacies (introduction by Jonathan D. Katz and essays by Tamsin Wilton and Tee A. Corinne). Published in hardcover by Last Gasp of San Francisco, Intimacies contains sensual, explicit images of labia and of woman-to-woman lovemaking.
Saturday, February 23 from 7:30-9 pm Richard Meyer will be reading from Outlaw representation: censorship & homosexuality in twentieth-century American art. Just out from Oxford University Press, the book shows how conflicts over censorship and homosexuality have shaped the history of modern art in America.
Giovanni’s Room (345 S 12th St, ph. 215-923-2960) is one of the largest glbtq bookstores in the U.S. and is known for its good selection of art books. It is located within easy walking distance of the Marriott. Go South on 12th Street six long blocks to the corner of 12th and Pine. The events are free and all are welcome.