May 16, 4:30 PM: Chase Joynt, "You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition"

Chase Joynt launches his new book (co-authored with Mike Hoolboom), "You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition" ABOUT THE BOOK: YOLT explores two artists’ lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near dead to alive. "The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become the question to every answer, jumping across borders until they finally dissolved. Man and woman. Queer and straight." What if it’s not true that you only live once? In this genre-transcending work of true fiction, trans writer and media artist Chase Joynt and HIV-positive movie artist Mike Hoolboom come together over the films of Chris Marker to exchange transition tales: confessional missives that map out the particularities of what they call ‘second lives’: Chase’s transition from female to male and Mike’s near-death from AIDS in the 1990s. Chronicling reactions from friends and families, medical mechanics and different versions of ‘coming out,’ YOLT explores art, love, sex, death and life in changed bodies. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: CHASE JOYNT is a Toronto-based moving-image artist and writer. Recently awarded the EP Canada/Canada Film Capital Award for Emerging Canadian Artist and jury awards for Best Documentary and Best Short, Chase’s work continues to be exhibited internationally. Chase is a PhD candidate in Film at York University and a recipient of a Mellon Fellowship in Arts Practice and Scholarship at the University of Chicago. MIKE HOOLBOOM is an author and filmmaker based in Toronto. He has written four books, received more than seventy awards, and enjoyed fifteen international retrospectives of his work. Co-sponsored by The Seminary Co-op Bookstores

Date: May 16, 2016
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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