Filmscreening + Vernissage Queer Tatueringshistoria / Historier!
Schedule
Sat Apr 25 2026 at 03:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
House of Q | Stockholm, ST
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🖤✨Warmly welcome 25/4 at 15-21 hs to vernissage of the exhibition Queer Tatueringshistoria / Historier at House of Q! ✨🖤Sara Swanson from StaDemonia Tattoo Stockholm has interviewed queers who got tattooed during the 70s and 80s and photographer Del LaGrace Volcano has portrayed the storytellers. Queer tattoo history / Stories is an ongoing art project, work of memory and research. Fragments collected for ourselves and our siblings, which tells of times where tattooing and queerness was taboo, shameful and/or forbidden AND an act filled with resistance, power and desire.The exhibition consists of Del la Grace volcano’s portraits and glimpses from the interviews. ✨🖤15.00💘 Welcome
16.00💘 Conversation with Del LaGrace Volcano, Delilah and Sara Swanson about what body modification has meant for them and their work.
18.00💘 Talk by Angelo Madsen about his research and film about Fakir Musafar and how Fakirs work influenced queer body modification community in the US.
19.00💘Film screening A Body To Live In by Angelo Madsen
The bar and restaurant will be open during the whole evening for the hungry and thursty.
🖤✨In a public conversation Sara Swanson will speak with Del LaGrace Volcano and one of the project’s participants, Delilah, about memories and visions. Delilah was one of the founders of klubb LASH (now Wish) in 1995. She was inspired by Del’s images and also Fakir Musafar’s work, from USA and UK, when images of queer tattooed and pierced bodies were extremely hard to get hold on in Sweden. Del LaGrace Volcano has created and portayed queer community during the las 50+ years✨🖤
🖤✨StaDemonia Tattoo Stockholm and Trans Fest Stockholm invites you, for the first time in Sweden, to see Angelo Madsen’s beautiful documentary film about Fakir Musafar, a predecessor in his obsession with body modification, ritualistic performance, piercing and tattooing, and as a gender fluid person who never fit in any box. The life and work of Fakir Musafar is inspiring and complex. Angelo Madsen will give us an online talk and presentation, about his important research and the film.✨🖤
🖤✨About the film: “The queer art of Body modification took center stage in 1989 when Fakir Musafar’s “Modern Primitives” movement hit alternative cultures around the globe via the punk subcultural magazine Re/Search. A photographer, performance artist, and ritualist, Musafar’s work mobilized an entire generation of artists, thinkers, and seekers. A Body To Live In introduces this riveting “Gender Flex” icon to uncover the rich history of western body modification and its complex intersection with sexuality and spiritual practices.”✨🖤
🖤✨Angelo Madsen (Previously known as Madsen Minax) is a multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, and educator. His projects consider how human relationships are woven through personal and collective histories, cultures, and kinships, with specific attention to subcultural experience, phenomenology, and the politics of desire.✨🖤
💘Evenemanget är ett samarbete mellan StaDemonia Tattoo Stockholm, Trans Fest Stockholm, House of Q, ABF Stockholm och RFSL Stockholm💘
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Where is it happening?
House of Q, Malmvägen 1, SE-115 41 Stockholm, Sverige, Stockholm, SwedenEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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