Required Skimming: Queer Art History Trivia Night, Hosted by Kate Rhodes & Maysoun Wazwaz

This summer Royal NoneSuch Gallery will transform into Royal Production Company (RPC). Four artists/collaboratives have been selected to create new video works using the gallery as a site of production during a three week residency: Bonanza, Amber Cady, Carolyn Janssen and Kate Rhoades. During the residencies each artist/collaborative will have public gallery hours and a special event. The residencies will culminate in a red carpet screening on September 16th where we’ll bring the bling at X location. After the premiere, the videos will continue to screen during regular gallery hours through early October.

Second in the RPC lineup is Kate Rhoades, who will continue her video series Required Skimming. Started in 2013, Required Skimming is a series of video vignettes illustrating various art theoretical and historical texts. In her time with Royal Production Company, Rhoades will produce several new queer, subtly educational installments. Rhoades will breathe technicolor life into familiar essays from the core of the western art historical canon, and will also incorporate texts that have destabilized that canon. In conjunction with her residency, Rhoades will perform live readings of the most scandalous and titillating art texts of our time. These readings will take place during gallery hours, and will be distributed for free on TheoryReader.com. A

Additionally, Rhoades and Maysoun Wazwaz, of the arts podcast Congratulations Pine Tree, will host a Queer Art History Trivia Night on July 6th.