Come Out with Joy, Speak out for Justice: A Queer Salon Series

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

26 Wooster Street

New York, NY 10013

In conjunction with the exhibition andrea geyer / a promise of lightning, this salon series offers the exhibitions meeting area in service of queer collectives, organizations, friends and individuals to gather and discuss queer issues and ideas in art, public health, and organizing, following from the tradition of literary and ideological movements of the 17th and 18th centuries. A group of three planned out salons will take place on select Thursday evening and another group of ad hoc salons will take place on Sundays between 4.30-5.30pm throughout the exhibition’s duration through January 12, 2025. Please check this link for updated information on all events surrounding the exhibition. This salon series follows a non-hierarchical model, with co-hosts present to suggest guided questions and support facilitation, but with all attendees encouraged to engage in dialogue.

THURSDAY SALONs @ 5-7pm

October 24, 2024: Queer Archives

November 14, 2024: Trans Inclusive Fitness Spaces

January 9, 2025: Queer Artists and Politics

andrea geyer / a promise of lightning

(Exhibition through January 12, 2025.)

Geyer takes form and inspiration from the network of connections made among trees in the forest—a vast, evolving web of visible and invisible layers in which resources, distress signals, and memories are in continual exchange, and intergenerational communication is key to survival. Interspersed among silkscreened prints and video documentation culled from southern Germany’s Black Forest (where the artist grew up and experienced her own queer formation) are images of organizing and protest from the Museum’s collection, proposing ways to rethink queer histories of activism, organizing, and representation.

Taking its title from a line of Audre Lorde’s 1973 poem “Movement Song,” which explores both loss and hope, the exhibition asks: How can queerness be considered as a form of multi-temporal relations to and within wider hegemonic cultures? How might still-underknown frameworks of the natural world conceptually and emotionally expand our capacity for resilience?

Geyer’s is the second project in The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art’s Interventions series, which invites LGBTQIA+ artists and cultural producers to engage the Museum’s collection and creatively present their research, building new narratives and interpretations from diverse subjectivities. The Interventions series offers a unique platform for public access to the Museum’s artworks, establishing a new avenue for showcasing the expansive and historical collection that Leslie-Lohman has acquired over five decades.