Queering Now 酷兒鬧 2021: works by 16 Sino queer artists

This weekend in London. the Queer East Film Festival is highly recommending  Queering Now 酷兒鬧 2021 which in a digital format is proposing a magical queer-topia, and an other-worldly journey “home”.

It presents outstanding works by 16 Sino queer artists, showcasing a queer dreamality through a celebration of the visual, sound, desire, fantasy, sweat, queer gazing, questioning, tears, and cultural reflection in the TechnoSphere. Queering Now 酷兒鬧 invites audiences to travel on the wing of queer longing, rebellion, and (re)imagination.

Directed by artist-curator Whiskey Chow, who proposes radical care and solidarity, retreating from censorship and the white gaze. Queering Now 酷兒鬧 aims to build up a connection and playground for outstanding queer Sino/ Asian diaspora artists, to hold their own agency via their creative works.

The artists are April Lin 林森, Bang Bang 邦邦, Chenta Tsai 蔡承達 (aka. putochinomaricon), LI YILEI, Lu Yang 陸揚, Mathis Zhang 張杭, Ming Wong 黃漢明, Scotty So 蘇港鴻, Sin Wai Kin 單慧乾 (fka Victoria Sin), Su Hui-Yu 蘇匯宇, Whiskey Chow, Xiao Lu 肖鲁, Yarli Allison 林雅莉, Yau Ching 游靜, Yu Cheng-Ta 余政達 and Zhu Dansiyu 朱丹絲語.

Available from 29 May to 12 June is an online program of eight short films by artists April Lin, Lu Yang, Mathis Zhang, Ming Wong & Yu Cheng-Ta, Su Hui-Yu, Yarli Allison and Yau Ching. These queer and cross-generational artists from the Sino diaspora variously explore displacement, death and in-betweenness, and the artists’ different approaches to self-empowerment and belonging. The films will be introduced by Queering Now Director Whiskey Chow and Digital Director Anne Duffau.

Led and Curated by Whiskey Chow, with Digital Director Anne Duffau and Producer Ruth Holdsworth Queering Now 2021: Dreamality has been funded by Arts Council England and is commissioned by Chinese Arts Now. It is supported by Home Live Art & the Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies (CEACS) University of Nottingham, and is presented in partnership with Mimosa House.

All events are FREE with a suggested donation of £5.    DATE 29th May - 12th June 2021                BOOK NOW