BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:403401@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20261108T130050Z DTSTART:20261208T000000Z DTEND:20261208T000000Z SUMMARY:Queer East Screening: Off the Grid\\, On the Page DESCRIPTION:Join us with Queer East\\, 'Off the Grid\\, On the Page: Arch iving Hong Kong’s Pre-Internet Queer History'\\nAbout this Event\\nesea contemporary co-presents with Queer East\\, Off the Grid\\, On the Page: Archiving Hong Kong’s Pre-Internet Queer History\\, an event bringing together moving-image works by Hong Kong artist Anson Mak with a talk dra wing on her research as project consultant for the archive Hong Kong LGBT Q+ Printed Matter in the Pre-Internet Era.\\nThe works in this programme sit within a broader history of queer moving-image practice in Hong Kong\ \, at a time when sexual diversity remained highly taboo and many LGBTQ+ lives\\, desires and communities were largely absent from mainstream repr esentation. Across the screening and talk\\, the programme considers how queer histories can be recovered\\, revisited and understood through cult ural materials that might otherwise remain overlooked.\\nMak will introdu ce materials from the archive\\, including those documenting the decrimin alisation of homosexual sex under British colonial law in Hong Kong — a turning point that helped galvanise LGBTQ+ activism in the early 1990s. She will also explore the intersections of feminist and queer movements\\ , the role of independent zines\\, and the creative and resourceful ways people navigated dating and connection before the arrival of the internet and dating apps.\\nBringing these materials into conversation with Mak†™s moving-image works\\, the programme traces strands of LGBTQ+ history i n Hong Kong and considers the archive as both a record of the past and a means of understanding how queer histories are preserved\\, interpreted a nd carried forward.\\nThe talk is followed by a screening of Same Yet Dif ferent (1991) and Two or Three Things I Know About Them (1992). Bringing Mak’s moving-image works into dialogue with the archival materials\\, t he programme considers how queer histories can be recovered through overl ooked cultural traces\\, and how archives and moving images might serve n ot only as records of the past\\, but as ways of interpreting and carryin g these histories forward.\\nAdvance booking is required for this event.\ \nScreening Programme:\\nSame Yet Different\\nHong Kong | 1996 | 20 min\\ nTwo Or Three Things I Know About Them\\nHong Kong | 1992 | 28 min\\nAbou t Anson Mak\\nDr Anson Hoi Shan Mak is a filmmaker and artist from Hong K ong whose research-driven practice spans film and video\\, phonography an d sound art\\, sound design\\, web-based projects\\, and photography on w oodwork.\\nHer work has been presented at international film festivals in cluding the Hong Kong International Film Festival\\, Yamagata Internation al Documentary Film Festival\\, Busan International Film Festival\\, Inte rnationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen\\, Vancouver International Film Festiv al and Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. Her artworks have also been exh ibited at museums and galleries including M+\\, Videotage\\, Taipei MOCA\ \, Times Art Center Berlin\\, FACT Liverpool\\, Whitechapel Gallery Londo n\\, Rockbund Art Museum Shanghai\\, CornerHouse Manchester and Crossing Art New York.\\nAbout Queer East\\nQueer East is a cross-disciplinary art s organisation dedicated to boundary-pushing LGBTQ+ cinema\\, performance \\, visual arts\\, literature\\, and moving-image work from East and Sout heast Asia\\, its diaspora communities\\, and beyond.\\nImage credits:\\n 1.Anson Mak\\, 'Two Or Three Things I Know About Them'\\, film still. Cou rtesy of the artist.\\n2.Anson Mak\\, 'Two Or Three Things I Know About T hem'\\, film still.\\n3-5.Anson Mak\\, 'Offline Memories'.\\nEvent venue\ \nesea contemporary\\, 13 Thomas Street\\, Manchester\\, United Kingdom\\ nTickets\\nGBP 0.00 to GBP 5.00\\nFind tickets →\\nConcerts\\, fests\\, parties\\, meetups — all the happenings\\, one place.\\nGet the app ↠’\\nDiscover more events by tag\\nConferences in ManchesterExhibitions in ManchesterHistory in ManchesterLgbt-pride in ManchesterFilmmaking in Man chesterEducation in ManchesterArt in ManchesterEntertainment in Mancheste rFestivals in ManchesterFine-arts in ManchesterLiterary-art in Manchester Queer in ManchesterLgbtq in Manchester\\nAsk AI if this event suits you\\ nChatGPT\\nPerplexity\\nClaude\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/europe/united-kin gdom/manchester/events/queer-east-screening-off-the-grid-on-the-page-2026 -12-08 LOCATION:esea contemporary\\, 13 Thomas Street\\, Manchester\\, EN\\, GB URL:https://www.gayout.com/europe/united-kingdom/manchester/events/queer-east-screening-off-the-grid-on-the-page-2026-12-08 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR