QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection with Courtney Act

Aug 16 2022

QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection with Courtney Act Podcast artwork

NGV presents 'QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection with Courtney Act', a five-part podcast series examining the exhibition through conversations with NGV curators and exhibiting artists to illustrate the exhibition's themes: love, community, activism, celebration and memory, queer sensibilities and queer strategies. The podcast offers listeners firsthand insight into the NGV exhibition 'QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection'. Hosted by iconic drag queen Courtney Act, the podcast illuminates a theme per episode. Conversations with the NGV curatorial team explore how these ideas resonate broadly with works presented in the exhibition, then individually with the five exhibiting artists: Tourmaline, William Yang, Linda Jackson, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger and Dylan Mooney.

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Ep. 5 Love with Dylan Mooney

Aug 16 2022 43 mins

Dylan Mooney, a Yuwi man from Mackay, Queensland, Torres Strait Islander from Darnley Island and Australian born South Sea Islander is the youngest artist represented in QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection. In this episode, Courtney Act and Dylan Mooney discuss the artists digital artworks which depict queer and Blak urban love stories. Courtney also chats to Myles Russell-Cook,

Ep.4 Queer Strategies with Frieda Toranzo Jaeger

May 08 2022 48 mins

Mexican artist Frieda Toranzo Jaeger discusses her work from the NGV Collection 'autofelatio' (2018), which explores automotive ‘mythology’, colonialism, and sensuality. Also in this episode, Pip Wallis, Curator of Contemporary Art, NGV discusses queer strategies and how these techniques are represented in works throughout the exhibition 'QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection.

Ep. 3 Queer Sensibilities with Linda Jackson

Apr 21 2022 64 mins

Pioneering Australian fashion designer Linda Jackson AO talks about her practice, collaborations with fellow artists and designers, and her work 'Black and White Calligraphy' (1978) on display in 'QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection'. Also in this episode, Dr Angela Hesson, Curator of Australian Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts to 1980, NGV, discusses Queer Sensibilities,

Ep. 2 Celebration & Memory with William Yang

Apr 07 2022 71 mins

Courtney talks with photographer, writer, and performer William Yang, whose body of documentary and portraiture photography work since 1970 has engaged with the Sydney gay scene, the impact of HIV/ AIDS and his sense of identity as a Chinese-Australian. Yang discusses his two works in QUEER titled William in Scholar's Costume, from the Old New Borrowed Blue series (2008) and Battli

Ep. 1 Queer Community & Activism with Tourmaline

Mar 09 2022 38 mins

Courtney chats with New York-based activist, filmmaker, and writer Tourmaline about her work which highlights the capacity of Black, queer, and trans people to make and transform worlds. Tourmaline’s films create portraits of people whose stories tell the history of New York City, including gay and trans liberation activists, drag queens, and queer icons Marsha P. Johnson and Syl