Vancouver Queer Film Festival – Celebrate Queer Vancouver, organised by Out on Screen
August 11 – 22, 2011
Vancouver, Canada
Installation of the vinyl
banner and colouring books. Display and sales of posters, buttons, and magnets.
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The Vancouver Sun – July 25, 2011
Arts festival reclaims ‘queer’ with a positive punch
By Peter Birnie
Queeriodic Table by Sarah Race
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Crothers joins “artist !Kona in being the geniuses behind The Queeriodic Table, which takes Mendeleev’s list of elements and hands it to the GLBT community.”
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Queer Arts Festival – Games People Play, organised by Pride in Art Society
July 26 – August 13, 2011
Vancouver, Canada
Full scale
installation of 7.5′ x 4′ vinyl banner plus 1008 piece puzzle.
Jul 222011
Open File – July 22, 2011
In Queeriodic Table, what element(s) are you?
By Peter Tupper
“People have sat down and interacted with the
[Queeriodic] Table and cried because they found themselves. They found a word that they didn’t know existed and said, ‘That’s me!’ It’s very powerful,” says Jen Crothers.
Crothers, a Vancouver-based filmmaker and artist, created the table alongside Kona, a Vancouver-based producer of sex-positive events, as a multimedia project designed to educate and provoke thought about queer sexualities.
Laid out like the periodic table of elements, the Queeriodic Table lists 112 terms for various queer identities and practices in ten different categories. Some of the words are familiar, with “love” taking the place of hydrogen, the most basic of elements. Others are less well known, such as woofy (“attractive” in the Bear subculture of gay men), zami (a Carribean term for a black lesbian), or ginger beer (Cockney rhyming slang for queer).
Kona says she first conceived the idea when she saw a periodic table project on the Internet.
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Jun 092011
Queerty – June 9, 2011
What Element Are You On The Queeriodic Table?
By Daniel Villarreal
Are you Banjee, Dykon, Hasbian, Wolfy, Frig, or Stone? Do you even know what those words mean? No? Then it
’s time for you to learn the essential LGBT elements on The Queeridioic Table!
Kona Katranya and Jen Crothers created The Queeriodic Table (which currently has 112 different queer elements on it) as a way to spark discussion about LGBT culture and identity.
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Jun 092011
instinct – June 9, 2011
Sexting Made More Efficient By “Queeriodic Table Of Elements”
By Instinct Staff
We spend all day at the gym socializing cruising whining lifting weights; the last thing we want to do while relaxing on Grindr in the evening is put more strain on a manicure than necessary. Thankfully, the just-released “Queeriodic Table Of Elements” boils down all the key terms used in LGBT culture to two key-letter codes, saving time (and vital finger-energy levels!). So, which elemental signals might we use?
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Jun 082011
Bitch – June 8, 2011
Revenge of the Feminerd: The Queeriodic Table
By Jarrah Hodge
Photo by Sarah Race
Vancouver artists Jen Crothers and Kona have created a delightfully nerdy project to raise awareness of queer language and its evolution, and to raise money for the local organization Out in Schools, which educates young people about homophobia and bullying. It’s called the Queeriodic Table, and it’s going places.
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May 252011
The Spectator – May 25, 2011
Naked nuns and quirky contraptions fill festival
By Kassi Rodgers
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In close proximity to the mechanical bull is a classroom simulation in progress, complete wit
h desks and crayons. The ‘instructors’ are all wearing white lab coats and stand off to side explaining the concept behind what they call the “Queeriodic Table.” Formatted in a similar fashion as the Periodic table of Elements, this version is a little off but no less informative. Elements such as “fag hag,” “straight acting” and “butt pirate” make up categories such as “mostly male,” “frequently female,” and many others. Viewers are asked to sit down and come up with their molecule after choosing from the plethora of available options. Almost instantly, the benefit to teaching this table over the old, boring version in schools became apparent, and coincidently enough Hydrogen was replaced with “Love” as the universal element.
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May 242011
The Seattle Erotic Festival was amazing and energizing and incredibly humbling. We interacted with hundreds people over that time. They challenged us and complimented us, shared their stories and their tears. Our colouring books were splashed brig
htly and folks made up some elements of their own. As Teacher Facilitators we realize that it is definitely a work that needs to be mediated in the public realm — particularly when groups are present.
When all was said and done we took ourselves out for a fabulous meal at a Seattle Restaurant called Ventana. Delicious, delicious, delicious as you can see from the pictures. All cities should have late evening Happy Hours!
Two more installations are scheduled for this summer, along with invites to other events, and to some post secondary educational institutions too. However, as a result of all those people we spoke to and the internets blowing up with conversation, the Table will be going into a Third edition with new artifacts!
From May 20-22, 2011 the Queeriodic Table featured as one of 17 installations at the Seattle Erotic Art Festival. This event features over 200 juried works selected from more than 2100 submi
ssions. These images are pretty typical of what we did for 12 hours a day for three days.
- A familiar response. Foreground: Co-creator Jen interacting with a guest. Standing background right: Co-creator !Kona with teaching assistant Tillie King. Photo by Robert Fisher
For this exhibition the Table was revised using community input from the previous six months of display, and printed at a massive 8×5 feet! Elements were moved around, some were decommissioned, and others were introduced for the first time. In all, only 67 elements remained in the exact same place.
Complementing this enlarged size was the debut of a 130-page Queeriodic Colouring Book featuring all 112 elements, pages for individual creation, and space on each page for personal commentary. Dressed as saucy Teacher Facilitators in lab coats, stylized stickers in place of gold stars, retro-fitted school desks, and crayons! Attendees were able to acquire button, magnet and poster artifacts at the Festival’s museum quality store.
Background in lab coat: !Kona facilitates a participants interaction with the table. Photo by Robert Fisher
Seattle Erotic Art Festival – Red Light District, organised by SEAF
May 20 – 22, 2011
Seattle, USA
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There aren’t enough words of thanks for
BootBlack Jac for all the assistance in figuring out how to manifest the installation vision of the artists. From reto-fitting desks, to devising carrying cases she never stopped coming up with clever ways to bring it all together.
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None of us realized what a Herculean task it would be to get ready for the Seattle Erotic Art Festival or to install the project once we arrived. The place was full of hustle with staff working hard to hang and install over 200 pieces of art. We were thankful to have Jac on our side to take charge of the install, troubleshoot the randomness of a new space and make everything look clean and simple.
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The final set up at SEAF took about two hours by the time we unloaded, unpacked, assembled the desks, and set up the Table. It all looks so simple when all is said and done. Doesn’t it? Over the next few days, hundreds of people sat our desks, asked us questions, told us their stories, and provided input which will be used to evolve the project to the next stage.
May 162011
Xtra! – May 12, 2011
Queeriodic Table / ART / It’s like the periodic table, only…
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It started off as an art piece for a local fundraiser, but if its co-creators have their way, the Queeriodic Table is going places.
Inspired by a blog post of a periodic table made entirely of cupcakes, artists Jen Crothers and Kona thought a queer version would be an ideal way to raise money for Out in Schools’ annual fundraiser, High School Confidential.
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A sprawling new vinyl banner version and an accompanying installation complete with school desks and teacher is scheduled to be displayed May 20 to 22 at this year’s Seattle Erotic Art Festival. The annual festival, mounted by the Foundation for Sex Positive Culture features hundreds of jury-selected art pieces and is billed as a place where art that is rarely seen in mainstream galleries and museums can be celebrated, discussed and supported.
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Queer Bodies Film Night 1
January 20, 2011
Vancouver, Canada
Display and sales of posters, buttons and magnets.
Mr. Leatherman Vancouver Competition
December 10-12, 2010
Vancouver, Canada
Large scale projection of the Table.
Dec 072010
Craftacular – Mr. Winter’s Beard of Funtimes, organised by The Craftacular
December 7, 2010
Vancouver, Canada
Display and sales of posters and buttons.
Nov 052010
D/s Intensive Series – Mollena Williams: IMsL 2010, organised by NubianImp.com
November 5 -7, 2010
Vancouver, Canada
Display and sales of posters and buttons.
Oct 292010
Dead Sexy Queered, organised by Canadian Mayhem
October 29, 2010
Vancouver, Canada
Large scale projection of the Table.
High School Confidential, organised by Out in Schools
October 2, 2010
Vancouver, Canada
Launch of project. Display and sales of posters and buttons.
