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Macon Reed: Eulogy for the Dyke Bar

Where
National Art School
National Art School
Forbes Street & Burton Street, Darlinghurst NSW 2010
National Art School Café
When

Mondays and Saturdays, 9am to 5pm Tuesdays to Fridays, 9am to 10pm Friday 17 February 2023 to Saturday 4 March 2023

Cost

Free

UNSW Galleries, the National Art School and Sydney WorldPride present Eulogy for the Dyke Bar, an installation and participatory project by American artist Macon Reed.

The installation is a sculptural environment in the style of bygone lesbian bars, a functioning bar, and an active community space for performances, conversations, and socialising. It is created using ephemeral materials and features archival material of now-defunct lesbian nights, parties and bars in Sydney and America.

It reclaims the term ‘dyke’ in its most expansive sense and recognises that gender and identities are complex and fluid. The ‘bar’ is open to anyone who identifies with, or feels an allyship with, the dyke part of the queer spectrum in the past or present (or perhaps future).

“Eulogy for the Dyke Bar honors the complex role and histories that dyke bars have played for the larger queer community. It acknowledges that many are now gone due to factors like gentrification, assimilation, and perhaps changing needs in the community."

"The project is an opportunity to talk about all of this, as well as to celebrate dyke culture. To ask ourselves what kinds of alternative community spaces we want to create moving forward and how to share resources to make that happen. It’s about thinking of our community both on, and beyond, the dance floor and what collective liberation can look like while also honoring our queer histories.”

— Macon Reed, 2023

Installation open: 9am–5pm Monday – Saturday

Café open: 9am–3pm Monday – Friday

Bar open: 5–10pm Tuesday – Friday

_Eulogy for the Dyke Bar _is a satellite project commissioned by UNSW Galleries and co-presented with the National Art School in association with Sydney WorldPride. Programs are supported by the City of Sydney and Museums and Galleries NSW. 

PROGRAM

Eulogy for the Dyke Bar: Launch Party 

Friday 17 February 2023

Club Chrome Takeover 

Tuesday 21 February 2023 

CAMP Women’s Night 

Wednesday 22 February 2023

BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation Takeover

Thursday 23 February 2023

Queerly Divine Cosmos: Astrology & Tarot Readings 

Friday 24 February 2023 

Dykes On Mics Karaoke 

Friday 24 February 2023 

Dyketactics: fisting as poetics, politics and practice

Tuesday 28 February 2023 

Panel: DIY Dykes & Queer Futures 

Wednesday 1 March 2023 

Radiant: Poetry & Open Mic Night 

Thursday 2 March 2023 

Dyke Decadence: Finissage Party 

Friday 3 March 2023

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