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Queer Trash Presents: Madsen Minax, Max Hamel, Reagan Holiday
Friday, April 12th, Queer Trash is thrilled to present Madsen Minax, Max Hamel, and Reagan Holiday for an evening of gender blur, noise, abstraction, and intimate electricity. Returning to ISSUE following their 2018 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship, Queer Trash presents a varied night of drag, noise, and video, with three artists who often come in bodily contact with the technologies they employ.
Madsen Minax presents a new film incorporating live sound and projected video. An interdisciplinary artist whose work is influenced by his participation in justice-oriented communities, Minaxs To Run, To Play Dead queers how intimacy and friendship can unfold between rural boys. The evening also features Max Hamel, known for their prolific output as Head Separating From Body, where the inputs and outputs of their modular synth are switchable, nonbinary, and fluid. Further, the sound is activated by touch, so the artists body completes the circuit. Drag performance artist and musician Reagan Holiday performs high femme harsh noise for the apocalypse. Full on, full drag, full volume.
Queer Trash celebrates the potential for noise to be a process that undoes fixed meanings, upsets hierarchies, and collapses socially constructed order. In information and communication theory, noise is the unwanted and inevitable travelling companion of signal. In this definition noise interferes with signal that is considered right and true, and noise itself has no independent meaning. Noise, to Queer Trash, is so much more exciting than that. These artists flip the dominant codes and focus on the noise, the excess, the stuff thats trash to heteronormative culture. For Queer Trash, noise is totally queer.
Queer theory diva Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick puts it beautifully: That's one of the things that "queer" can refer to: the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone's gender, of anyone's sexuality aren't made (or can't be made) to signify monolithically.
Madsen Minax (he/him) works in documentary and hybrid filmmaking formats, narrative cinema, experimental and essay film, sound and music performance and media installation. His projects have screened and/or exhibited at spaces including the European Media Art Festival (Germany), the Ann Arbor Film Festival (MI), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Anthology Film Archives (NYC), The British Film Institute (UK), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), REDCAT (Los Angeles), hundreds of LGBT film festivals around the world, PBS, CBC and the cable channel FreeSpeechTV. Madsen has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Core Program, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Berlinale Doc Station, Queer|Arts|Mentorship and numerous others.
Reagan Holiday is a drag performance artist and musician from Brooklyn, NY. They want you
to know they definitely didnt start the rumor about them being the Succubus of Noise, and had
nothing to do with it being scrawled in bathrooms throughout NYC. If youve picked up that
this humor is an effort to deflect attention from the deeply personal and wanting nature of a
body of work seeking audience from a world that intends to erase it, thats sick lmao u must b
rly cool. Now put your earplugs in.
Max Hamel (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist with practices spanning improvisational performance, composition, sculpture, and instrument building. They craft textural sound collages using a web of idiosyncratic, interconnected synthesizers that are centered around chaos, feedback, and touch. Max has performed and released work under the name Head Separating From Body, and has collaborated with an assortment of performers including Al Margolis, Crank Sturgeon, Zach Rowden, Jen Kutler, and Matt Norman. They are based out of the northeast United States and have performed in galleries and performance spaces such as the Darling Foundry in Montreal, Quebec and Basilica Hudson in Hudson, NY.
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LocationISSUE Project Room (View)
22 Boerum Place
Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States
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