Événement

Dirty Looks presents Chris E. Vargas, Video and Museum Maker

Dirty Looks presents the first-ever West Coast survey of early work by Chris E. Vargas, trans organizer, artist and activist. Perhaps best known as the founder of the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art, a nebulous museum that proliferates information, presentations and exhibitions across North America, or as one half of the collaborative web series with Greg Youmans, FALLING IN LOVE... WITH CHRIS AND GREG, a sitcom about a queer odd coupleone liberal, one radical; one transgender, one notVargas has produced a body of work that is politically subversive, culturally acute and utterly hysterical. From Angelina Jolie to the first pregnant man, Liberace to RuPaul, these works challenge the homonormative, queering pop culture and rewriting some of LGBTQ hirstories messier lessons in slightly less closet-y light.

Extraordinary Pregnancies, video, 10min, 2010
Have You Ever Seen a Transsexual Before?, video, 4min., 2010
Liberacéon, digital video, 16min., 2011
Falling in Love With Chris and Greg: Work of Art Reality TV Special (with Greg Youmans), digital video, 14min., 2014
ONE for all, digital video, 7min., 2012
Cry Boy Cry, digital video, 5min., 2012
Valencia (with Greg Youmans), HD video, 6min., 2013
Falling in Love with Chris and Greg: A Special Holiday Message (with Greg Youmans), video 6min., 2012
MOTHA: Introduction, video, 5min., 2014
Sashay Away, HD video, 8min., 2015 - 2017