Et Alors? Magazine 17
Et Alors? Magazine is an ongoing research project, focused on documenting contemporary queer art and LGBT creativity, solely written and designed by Fleur Pierets & Julian P. Boom. Married and female. By using the conventional magazine format as a creative platform to publish in-depth interviews and positive portraits on musicians, visual artists, writers and performers, they challenge and expand the mainstream understandings on the specific niche of queer art. The project both highlights contemporary artists and the many creative individuals who have put their unique stamp on art history. Et Alors? Magazine is a time document that continually captures the zeitgeist of a changing world, supporting the creation, the research and the development of projects that explore diversity, gender, feminism and queer topics on an optimistic, cultural, artistic and intellectual level.
Et Alors? Magazine is an ongoing research project, focused on documenting contemporary queer art and LGBT creativity, solely written and designed by Fleur Pierets & Julian P. Boom. Married and female. By using the conventional magazine format as a creative platform to publish in-depth interviews and positive portraits on musicians, visual artists, writers and performers, they challenge and expand the mainstream understandings on the specific niche of queer art. The project both highlights contemporary artists and the many creative individuals who have put their unique stamp on art history. Et Alors? Magazine is a time document that continually captures the zeitgeist of a changing world, supporting the creation, the research and the development of projects that explore diversity, gender, feminism and queer topics on an optimistic, cultural, artistic and intellectual level.
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editorial <strong>17</strong><br />
Comrades,<br />
Identity labels have always been a big issue amongst<br />
sexual and gender minorities. A language matter<br />
that led to the elaborate LGBTQIA, an abbreviation<br />
likely to be often quizzically frowned upon, yet you<br />
cannot blame anyone for trying. Identity labels will<br />
never embrace the complete package and although<br />
we do understand the importance of diversification,<br />
here at <strong>Et</strong> <strong>Alors</strong>? <strong>Magazine</strong> headquarters we’ve chosen<br />
to use the generic term Queer as an umbrella for the<br />
wonderful artists we portrait.<br />
Queer, because we identify ourselves with so much<br />
more than just the L within the summary of capitals.<br />
We’re also women - Caucasian women to be exact -<br />
and we love reading so much our house is smothered<br />
in books. One of us is thinking about buying a drum<br />
kit and the other one is building a photo studio. We<br />
both love to travel and meet people who blow our<br />
minds. We share a dislike for smalltalk. One of us<br />
is a freckled redhead whereas the other one wears<br />
nothing but men’s clothes. We used to live the social<br />
life in Antwerp and Amsterdam but are currently<br />
residing in a small village up on a Spanish mountain.<br />
For now. And yes, we are lesbians, yet consider that<br />
a small part of the complete package that comes<br />
with being the individuals we are. However, we feel<br />
comfortable with the term Queer. The adjective that<br />
stands for – among many other meanings – atypical,<br />
singular, funny and different. And don’t you just love<br />
the sexy w-intonation just behind the q.?<br />
Hence, queer. Like the unconventional work of<br />
writer, public speaker and performer Ivan E. Coyote<br />
who considers themselves a gender failure. Or the<br />
outlandish and remarkable creations of visual artist<br />
Bubi Canal, that carry you along into this magical<br />
world filled with vivid creatures in geometric<br />
shapes and powerful imagery. The unorthodox charity<br />
organization ‘Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’, using<br />
flamboyant make-up and costumes to underline their<br />
roles as gender activists, their fight against sexual<br />
intolerance and their rebellion against religion.<br />
Square Zair Pair, the funny and extraordinary children’s<br />
‘We’ve chosen to<br />
use the generic<br />
term Queer as an<br />
umbrella for the<br />
wonderful artists<br />
we portrait.’<br />
book about celebrating the diversity of couples in a<br />
community, written by Jase Peeples. An untypical<br />
photo series by Belle Ancell, a photographer who<br />
uses her work to give back to her peers. The eccentric<br />
and ‘all out’ rapper Solomon Ray and the mysterious<br />
Virgin Xtravaganzah, who thinks that if you’re set<br />
out not to be prejudiced, it wouldn’t matter whether<br />
you’re a Catholic, a Muslim or a Buddhist. Because<br />
we should actually all get along.<br />
All of them artists who have two things in common;<br />
they explore diversity, gender, feminism and LGBT<br />
topics on a cultural, artistic and intellectual level,<br />
and we chose them to be featured in the <strong>17</strong>th issue<br />
of our flamboyant queer art magazine. Enjoy!<br />
Keep safe, stay gorgeous.<br />
Love,<br />
Fleur & Julian<br />
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