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CUSP: PhotoBooth Tour: Book here

The CUSP: PhotoBooth is a fun, creative pathway for Queer+Ally communities in Tasmania to express solidarity with their identity, their community and with Nature through the ‘Celebrating Identity' exhibition at QVMAG.  

 

In partnership with Working it Out and the Rainbow Stable, three FREE Queer+Ally community CUSP: PhotoBooths will  pop-up in Devonport, Burnie and Launceston from July to August. 


Selected photographs from the North and North West Tasmania PhotoBooths will be added to the CUSP artwork in the Rainbow Stable exhibition, Celebrating Identity: Activism and Ecstasy (QVMAG, 20 June - 13 Sept 2026) for its final month, to create a dynamic evolving artwork. 


The CUSP artwork in the Rainbow Stable exhibition is entitled ‘With Love, from the CUSP evolution revolution’, and is a photowall documenting Queer+Ally people from Southern Tasmania demonstrating their solidarity at the CUSP. CUSP is a Queer eco-conscious solidarity art project by dr Merri and the Myrtle Forest. During the ‘Celebrating Identity’ exhibition this artwork will evolve into a Queer+Ally solidarity photowall which represents North, North West and Southern Tasmanians.


In the PhotoBooth, Queer+Ally people will be photographed expressing themselves while standing or moving through a projection of the CUSP artwork ‘The Opening.’ ‘The Opening’ is a multi-perspective sound, vision and voice portrait of the Tasmanian Myrtle Forest, captured through a non-binary lens...

 

!Costumes, flags and props welcome! 


Or just come and create a fun photo which you can share with your friends.


QVMAG has commissioned a new North, North West Tasmanian Queer+Ally Voice soundscape for ‘The Opening’ to be recorded on 20 June as two FREE Queer+Ally community Voice workshops with Bec Tilley for the Rainbow Stable exhibition. The evolved North, North West Tasmanian version of ‘The Opening’ will be the projection used for the PhotoBooths in Devonport, Burnie and Launceston. 


A FREE workshop conducted by Bec Cannon, a local movement therapy practitioner and dance artist, will be offered in the central location of Devonport before the Devonport PhotoBooth in July. This workshop will assist the North and North West Tasmanian Queer+Ally community to creatively respond to the CUSP projection with Tasmanian Voices from their region. Each person’s photographs will be shared to a private online google drive folder which only they and the artist can access.

 

BOOK your rendezvous at the CUSP evolution revolution HERE!

 

CUSP: PhotoBooths

7 August: Launceston - UTAS, Invermay
11.30am-2pm: The Workhshop, UTAS Launceston PhotoBooth for everyone:  

https://events.humanitix.com/cusp-photobooth-launceston

 

Rainbow Stable Gathering

16 August: Celebrating Identity Together 
1pm @ the Rainbow Stable 'Celebrating Identity: Activism and Ecstasy' exhibition, Object Gallery, QVMAG, Invermay. An informal family friendly Queer+Ally gathering. Everyone welcome.  

 

Past events:

20 June: Launceston - QVMAG, Invermay

1.00pm: Queer+Ally 'Voicing' workshops + recording with Bec Tilley

2.30pm: Queer+Ally 'Voicing' workshops + recording with Bec Tilley

 

10 July: Devonport - Don Memorial Hall

10.30am: Devonport movement workshop and PhotoBooth with Bec Cannon 

1.30pm-3.30pm: Devonport PhotoBooth for everyone  

 

23 July: Burnie - WIO office
1.30pm-3.30pm: Burnie PhotoBooth for everyone


How to create CUSP magic?

The CUSP: PhotoBooths are Queer+Ally community collaborative Art experiments. Bring your creativity so we can make new discoveries together. Observations from past experiments include:

#1. Light coloured fabrics REFLECT the CUSP projection

AND white and light colours on dark colours work well too.

#2. Movement is MAGIC!

Play with friends :D

#3. Props are FUN!

#4. Flags and movement ROCK!

#5. The Magic Eye effect

This works best when your shadow can be seen behind you as you emerge from the CUSP and view the photograph through the video camera on your phone.


The CUSP: PhotoBooth project is a partnership with Working it Out (WIO), Tasmania’s sexuality, gender and intersex support, education and advocacy service and the Rainbow Stable. This project is supported by the amazing Tasmanian Arts and Queer+Ally community through Sawtooth ARI, Contemporary Art Tasmania and the Ally Network at UTAS with generous donations from Red Parka. #workingitout #wio #sawtoothari #contemporaryarttasmania #UTASallynetwork #redparka 

 

This project was made possible by the Australian Governments Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia.
#RegionalArtsFund  #RegionalArtsAustralia  #RANTArts