NICK VAUGHAN & JAKE MARGOLIN: POLITICAL GESTURES

Thursday, May 3, 7:30-9:30PM

Member preview reception at 7PM

Free admission

Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin present their newest multi-channel video installation, featuring overtly political drag performances created in collaboration with drag queens from Oklahoma (Gizele Monae, Josie Lee Turrelle, Mercy Monroe and Anita Richards) and artist/filmmaker Andrew Schneider. Celebrating the historical role of drag in the struggle for LGBTQ+ progress, Political Gestures incorporates speeches from the 1979 March on Washington For Gay and Lesbian Rights, radically political queer music, and interviews with contemporary members of Oklahoma’s LGBTQ+ community. Political Gestures was commissioned by Aurora Picture Show, and funded in part by the Mid-America Arts Alliance.

Political Gestures contains strong language and addressing of serious issues facing the LGBTQ+ community. 

The installation will be on view daily, May 4-10, 12-2pm (except closed Sunday, May 6), with the artists present, for those who would like to revisit and spend more time with the work. 
 

This project is generously supported by the Founding Members of the Aurora Picture Show Artist Project Circle:

Allison and David Ayers

Brad and Leslie Bucher

Jereann Chaney

Reggie and Leigh Smith

Bob and Lillian Warren