Videofag

Videofag is a storefront cinema and performance lab in Toronto, Ontario's Kensington Market, dedicated to the creation and exhibition of video, film, new media, and live art. A flexible multimedia space, Videofag is designed to serve as a cinema, an art gallery, a nightclub or a theatre space depending on the needs of any individual show.

The space is run by Jordan Tannahill and William Ellis, who converted it from an old barbershop in October 2012. Videofag's inaugural exhibition was a retrospective of local queer music collective Kids on TV.

In 2012, Videofag presented performances by Jeremy Bailey, Casey Mecija, Nina Arsenault and video work by Mike Hoolboom, John Greyson, Keith Cole, and The Hidden Cameras, among others. Curator Jon Davies hosted Sissy Boy YouTube Night, a program of videos curated from the Internet of childhood queer expression which Davies later wrote about for C Magazine and presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario.Salvatore Antonio and Adamo Ruggiero also presented an early workshop version of Truth/Dare: A Satire (With Dance), a Madonna tribute show which they later remounted at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in June 2013.

Performances presented in 2013 included Henri Fabergé's rock opera Feint of Hart,Aurora Stewart de Peña's The Lee Press On Nail Play, Jane Montgomery Griffiths' Sappho...In 9 Fragments, Daniel Karasik's The Biographer,Sheila Heti's All Our Happy Days Are Stupid, a concert by Rae Spoon, and a trilogy of dance pieces by D.A. Hoskins. Videofag also hosted exhibitions by Vivek Shraya, Jesi the Elder, Peter Kingstone, and group shows featuring work by Bridget Moser, Life of a Craphead, FASTWÜRMS, Kalup Linzy, Will Munro, and R.M. Vaughan, among others. One notable exhibition saw Videofag transformed into a satirical Wal-Mart pop-up store. In 2013 Videofag also presented screenings and new media projects by artists such as Jennifer Chan (artist), Daniel Cockburn, Jon Moritsugu, Francesco Gagliardi, and the Radical Faeries.

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