Derek Jarman
BLUE NOW : A film by Derek Jarman, performed live
BLUE was Derek Jarman’s final film. Completed in May 1993, just months before his death, it is his testament. For 74 minutes, an unchanging screen of celestial blue is accompanied by voices that deliver a collage of fragments from Jarman’s diary, describing the gradual onset of blindness as he battles with HIV. As his…
Queerguru checks out The ANDREW LOGAN MUSEUM OF SCULPTURE : unquestionably one of the best queer museums in the world
If you are put off from visiting museums because they are cold and forbidden and seem hell-bent on boring non-intellectuals to tears, then it’s way past time that you visited The Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture. It’s not only the first museum in Europe dedicated to a living artist but Logan is also considered a…
Derek Jarman ‘PROTEST” a major retrospective of the legendary queer artist @Manchester Art Gallery
It is so heartwarming to see all the attention still given to celebrate the life and work of the celebrated queer activist, filmmaker, and artist DEREK JARMAN who died of AIDS in 1994. Earlier this month Queerguru’s Ris Fatah gave a ☆☆☆☆☆ review to MARK FARRELLYs tour-de-force performance in his one-man play JARMAN. We also…
When The London Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence canonized Derek Jarman
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are the legendary queer charity, protest and street performance organization that uses drag and religious imagery to call attention to sexual intolerance and satirizes issues of gender and morality. It all started in 1976, when a convent of Roman Catholic nuns lent some retired habits to The Sugar Plum…
