Sheroes was a monthly limited-run art party series that brought together on and offline works that playfully and performatively explore the iconography and cultures of fandom surrounding the "League of Legendary Ladies": Joni Mitchell, Chaka Khan, Tina Turner, Madonna, Yoko Ono, Erykah Badu, Etta James, Marianne Faithfull, Dolly Parton, Grace Jones, Dusty Springfield & Nina Simone.
Sheroes is presented by salonnière reeraw (Rea McNamara). Based in Toronto, the series curates specially commissioned performances, sounds, installations & visuals.
All Sheroes events are brainstormed and archived online at fuckyeahsheroes.tumblr.com, uniting digital communities with real-time audiences in an ongoing exploration into fan culture and collaborative content creation.
Virtual Season — our culminating presentation of new and past Sheroes on/offline works & performances — is currently gearing into its first international reunion tour. We will be announcing soon tour dates. (If you would like to book a Sheroes event, please contact us.)
Emcee Extraordinaire Silk Degrees performing during Sheroes #11’s League of Legendary Ladies Karaoke. Cinemagraph event GIF by Lorna Mills. (“I certainly couldn’t have evolved this far without Tony Halmos as my muse.”)
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A digest of links on the idea of ‘The Female Pixel’, including (on Tumblr) FM Towns Marty, Sheroes, V5MT, PartyTime! Hexellent.
It also features Lillian Schwartz, Waldemar Cordeiro, Jovi Xu, and Christian Zander.
You can read the whole thing here
Many thanks to Rich for including Sheroes as one of his Prosthetic Knowledge picks on Rhizome!
Click to see featured GIFs from Andrew Benson, Jennifer Chan, Haruko Hirukawa & Yoshi Sodeoka.
(The featured event GIFs by Lorna Mills & Tony Halmos include live documentation of GIFs in action by Grace McEvoy, Sarah Weis & Emilie Gervais, as well as past performers Lido Pimienta & BizZarh.)
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Grace McEvoy’s GIF for Les post-Gendered et les autres group GIF show at Sheroes #10: Grace Jones. Event GIF by Lorna Mills.
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Grace McEvoy’s GIFs for Sheroes #9.
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Sheroes #9 animated GIFs by Grace McEvoy, Helen Adamidou, Jennifer Chan & Lorna Mills. Event GIFs by Lorna Mills.
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Animated GIF by Grace McEvoy for Sheroes #8: Marianne Faithfull.
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Animated GIF by Grace McEvoy for Sheroes #8: Marianne Faithfull.
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Sheroes #8: Marianne Faithfull — The Global GIF Aristocracy (von Sacher-Masoch Line)
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