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SUMMARY:“QUEER LEONARDO: an afternoon of performance\, spoken word and mu
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DESCRIPTION:“QUEER LEONARDO: an afternoon of performance\, spoken word an
 d music”\n\nManchester Art Gallery\, 15.00-17.00 + FLoK\, 18.00-21.00\, 
 16 March 2019\n\nIt is widely accepted that Leonardo da Vinci\, the famo
 us Italian Renaissance painter\, was gay. To celebrate this\, and to acc
 ompany Manchester Art Gallery’s exhibition “Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in
  Drawing\, we have commissioned five Manchester-based artists to develop
  pieces that respond to the artist’s works and aim to situate him within
  contemporary negotiations of gender and sexual identity. Today\, it is 
 normal to view Leonardo as a positively queer figure in the history of a
 rt whose work has been highly influential in the construction of the mod
 ern body. While there has been great progress in the development of LGBT
 Q+ rights in the UK\, LGBTQ+ people are still largely underrepresented\,
  and despite this progress these hard-won rights are reliant on dominant
  normative modes of being that\, in his own day\, Leonardo resisted. We 
 believe it is vital that Manchester continues to embraces the radical po
 ssibilities of art\, and takes this opportunity to pay tribute to the li
 fe of a great\, gay artist of the past. \n\nJOE COOPER is a writer and p
 erformer and digital artist living in Manchester. He has made a work for
  Flim Nite\, First Draft and Evidently Salford. He would rate Leonardo d
 a Vinci a 7/10.\n\nSTUART CROWTHER trained at the Liverpool Institute fo
 r Performing Arts\, where he is now a visiting lecturer in writing for p
 erformance. He is a writer\, actor\, drag and performance artist and his
  work has been seen at the Pleasance (London and Edinburgh)\, Fortune Th
 eatre (West End)\, Battersea Arts Centre\, the Royal Exchange\, Oldham C
 oliseum\, Walker Art Gallery\, Open Air Theatre\, Square Chapel\, Lawren
 ce Batley Theatre\, Unity Theatre\, Liverpool Playhouse and many others.
  He is also a founding member of the Working Class Artists collective an
 d holds an MA in Gender\, Sexuality and Culture from the University of M
 anchester.\n\nLOW CINNABAR is a theatric electronica act based in Manche
 ster. With a distinctive voice\, they craft strange fragments of story t
 hrough synths\, gameboy emulators\, phone software and old-fashioned fin
 ger-picked guitar. Current lineup includes Leverett Jaques (@low_cinnaba
 r) and Lenni Sanders.\n\nANIRUDHA DHANAWADE studied at Cambridge and Bir
 kbeck College London. For three years he was a lecturer in Art History a
 t the University of Manchester before teaching for a year at the Univers
 ity of Genoa\, Italy. Having parachuted out of academia\, he is in the p
 rocess of reinventing himself. His essay on jelly and the aesthetics of 
 wobbliness can be read in Issue 19 of The Manchester Review.\n\nThis eve
 nt is organised by the University of Manchester Art History department\,
  in collaboration with the Art History Society and Manchester Art Galler
 y.\n
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LOCATION:Manchester Art Gallery\, Mosley St\, Manchester M2 3JL
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