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A Taste of Queer Survival: Critical Reflections on the Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency

  • Ailsa Craig

  • Tobaron Waxman

How are art and community-making interconnected? In what ways can artistic practice work alongside and in conjunction with building larger community resources for social justice and survival? Both a collaborative critical narrative and reflexive, scholarly social analysis, this paper asks these (and other) questions as it moves through reflection upon the creation, maintenance, and ongoing work of the Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency.

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Photo of Ailsa Craig.
A person with short, greying hair wearing a black t-shirt and black-rimmed glassed stands with arms crossed across their chest, looking into the camera with a slight smile. There is an out-of-focus bookshelf in the background.
Ailsa Craig

Ailsa Craig is a queer and trans activist, full professor, and academic administrator at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Dr. Craig’s research interests include cultural sociology and the sociology of artistic careers; gender, sexuality and structural inequality; community building, mentorship, representation, and the sociology of emotions. Alongside their involvement with the Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency (ILGBTAR), Dr. Craig is also a co-founder of Quadrangle, a charitable organization working to build a 2SLGBTQAI+ community centre for Newfoundland and Labrador.

Photo of Tobaron Waxman.
Immersed chest-deep in an emerald green lake, face tilted upwards, a person holds electric clippers to their neck. As they shave their face and head, the pale blue sky is reflected in their eyes. Their reflection reciprocates on the velvety surface of the lake, as tufts of hair fall and float by in the current.
Tobaron Waxman

Tobaron Waxman is an interdisciplinary artist and curator who sings. Tobaron’s projects investigate how the state imposes borders and parameters on bodies and lands. Their works have been exhibited at such venues as Palais de Tokio, Videotage Hong Kong, Kunsthalle Vienna, FestivAlt Krakow, New Museum NYC, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, and Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music; and via fellowships at Van Lier, NYC; Akademie der Kunst der Welt, Koln; and Kulturlabor ICI Berlin Institute of Cultural Inquiry. Developing theory on trans vocality as a vocalist, Tobaron has sung liturgy in hospitals, at memorials and weddings; as well as performed at Kampnagel Festival of Choreography and Protest Hamburg, Donau Festival, and Dixon Place NYC.  In 2013, Tobaron founded The Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency, as a combined curatorial, relational/live art, and sociopolitical praxis. Since 2017 Tobaron has lead the Trans Collections at The ArQuives, as part of a collaborative team at the largest independent LGBTQ archive in the world. Tobaron’s writing and photography have been published internationally, including in Carte Blanche (Magenta, 2006), Post Porn Politics (bbooks, 2010), Fast Feminism (Autonomedia, 2010), Trans Bodies Trans Selves (Oxford University Press, 2014) and featured in such publications as Missy, C Magazine, Fuse, Canadian Dimension, Canadian Theatre Review, Lillith, Women & Performance, GLQ, TSQ, and LTTR.  Tobaron is the 2022 – 2023 Artist in Residence, Polin Museum/Teatr Powszechny Warsaw, as part of SSHRC: ‘Thinking Through the Museum: A Partnership Approach to Curating Difficult Knowledge in Public.’ 

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