https://leavittsummer.com Summer Jade Leavitt Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:02:45 +0000 https://leavittsummer.com en https://leavittsummer.com/splash-page Fri, 09 Apr 2021 20:23:26 +0000 Summer Jade Leavitt https://leavittsummer.com/splash-page &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Summer Jade Leavitt https://leavittsummer.com/Featured-Blog-Posts Fri, 09 Apr 2021 19:48:11 +0000 Summer Jade Leavitt https://leavittsummer.com/Featured-Blog-Posts The Queer Theory Library &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; xii https://leavittsummer.com/No-New-Pain-The-Tool-Library Wed, 17 Apr 2024 21:22:22 +0000 Summer Jade Leavitt https://leavittsummer.com/No-New-Pain-The-Tool-Library <img width="3900" height="2600" width_o="3900" height_o="2600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1e04cedbc5ca0d3b7555d61f0dd9ee9ca4c7d27f7a1112c927f3f1f1acd2e40/061-RH2_9818.jpg.JPG" data-mid="209175019" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1e04cedbc5ca0d3b7555d61f0dd9ee9ca4c7d27f7a1112c927f3f1f1acd2e40/061-RH2_9818.jpg.JPG" /><img width="3900" height="2600" width_o="3900" height_o="2600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02566906203e0ed97a0900c84c0affd762238c868420a172fd4382e46f4965be/060-RH2_9810.jpg.JPG" data-mid="209175021" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02566906203e0ed97a0900c84c0affd762238c868420a172fd4382e46f4965be/060-RH2_9810.jpg.JPG" /><img width="3900" height="2600" width_o="3900" height_o="2600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/49fcaa244fedb14fd1ddd9aee588f0d0fdbbfcc34ef66273acdfe5a78c79f5f2/057-RH2_9803.jpg.JPG" data-mid="209175018" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/49fcaa244fedb14fd1ddd9aee588f0d0fdbbfcc34ef66273acdfe5a78c79f5f2/057-RH2_9803.jpg.JPG" /><img width="3900" height="2600" width_o="3900" height_o="2600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03181f45693367948aa0e9fa879cfc504489454606ce146f384d9b1bbdfc18cf/059-RH2_9809.jpg.JPG" data-mid="209175020" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03181f45693367948aa0e9fa879cfc504489454606ce146f384d9b1bbdfc18cf/059-RH2_9809.jpg.JPG" /><img width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da786e9d8d95fd3ab5a5bc8634e9850532d163f87845c6fda4727df5b29210ec/058-RH2_9807.jpg.JPG" data-mid="209175022" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/da786e9d8d95fd3ab5a5bc8634e9850532d163f87845c6fda4727df5b29210ec/058-RH2_9807.jpg.JPG" /> No New Pain (The Tool Library) Written by Dani Janae, No New Pain is a series of poems made in response to Audre Lorde’s The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House, commissioned by The Queer Theory Library. Janae’s poems were then engraved on a set of hand tools, made to be functional and available to the public as a tool library that can be checked out for use and for reading.&nbsp; Engraved handtools, book, library cards. Installed at Deering Estate for the 2023 Spring Contemporary exhibition&nbsp;Closer to Nature.&nbsp; 2021/2023 https://leavittsummer.com/Closer-to-Nature Wed, 15 Jan 2025 22:50:06 +0000 Summer Jade Leavitt https://leavittsummer.com/Closer-to-Nature <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75b3def0821c5425296c702e6ba5def21271d7a71536e9729b03563828359ca3/IMG_1469.jpg" data-mid="224853822" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75b3def0821c5425296c702e6ba5def21271d7a71536e9729b03563828359ca3/IMG_1469.jpg" /><img width="3744" height="5616" width_o="3744" height_o="5616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c081cf531d0efff13450b2ef8bcccc1bce59057f672d9e23a1bebd310c60bd8/IMG_1388.jpg" data-mid="224853819" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c081cf531d0efff13450b2ef8bcccc1bce59057f672d9e23a1bebd310c60bd8/IMG_1388.jpg" /><img width="3744" height="5616" width_o="3744" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4256675b617a9d0aa8129b4cc9dfd088ea0232020e35567499fbcf832f9b6b5b/IMG_1422.jpg" data-mid="224853821" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4256675b617a9d0aa8129b4cc9dfd088ea0232020e35567499fbcf832f9b6b5b/IMG_1422.jpg" /> Closer to Nature Spring Contemporary Exhibition at Deering Estate April 15 - June 11 Curated by Summer Jade Leavitt Deering Estate’s Spring Contemporary exhibition Closer to Nature explores concepts of queer ecofeminism: intersections of queer theory, feminism, race, science, and nature. The exhibition shares works that deal with experiences of looking for/finding oneself in nature and expanding the environments for queer existence to thrive. The exhibition is curated by guest curator Summer Jade Leavitt.&nbsp; The works in the exhibition range from sculpture, installation, poetry, performance, artifact, and video will sprawl across the Estate’s grounds and in the Great Hall of the Stone House. The media and materials the artists use here, including somatic poetry rituals, spell work, living sculpture, drag, performance art, and ephemeral artifacts challenge tradition, using experimental methods for creating, writing, thinking, and performing. These works observe oppressive structures, embody defiance, and provide the antidote to their restraints. Looking into the hidden, unseen, impossible, extinct, and unknown, the artists here exemplify what it means to be queer: to give language to a world larger than the one we find ourselves in. In Greta Gaard’s essay Toward a Queer Ecofeminism, Gaard dissects the contradictions in culturally constructed binaries that were used to justify colonialism and enforce hierarchy; in dualisms, human/nature, reason/emotion, mind/spirit, the oppressed groups are seen in Western culture as “closer to nature”, yet queerness is frequently devalued for being “against nature”. While this implies that nature is valued and protected, recent environmental disasters and climate crisis demonstrates otherwise. In these colonial structures, that which wanders outside of reason, order, rationality, and production is punished and subordinated. To reject that colonization requires embracing the natural in all its diversity and collaborating to create shared liberation. Exhibiting artists include Tsohil Bhatia, CA Conrad, Christy Gast, GeoVanna Gonzalez, Kasem Kydd, Kunst, Lee Pivnik, Dani Janae and The Queer Theory Library, and X Medianoche. https://leavittsummer.com/This-Bitter-Earth Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:02:45 +0000 Summer Jade Leavitt https://leavittsummer.com/This-Bitter-Earth <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c39c47737634ec71dc36b7d865d8e248ab21cbf9b310815a15623bb782939dd2/DSCF5494.JPG" data-mid="224855893" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c39c47737634ec71dc36b7d865d8e248ab21cbf9b310815a15623bb782939dd2/DSCF5494.JPG" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/447ba0ca38dd8fa8f679f2df9b6a8738a8c49f29b268a0a59b4bbdd41b533efe/TBE_012123_2.jpeg" data-mid="224855891" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/447ba0ca38dd8fa8f679f2df9b6a8738a8c49f29b268a0a59b4bbdd41b533efe/TBE_012123_2.jpeg" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d03349efc05f0c9a2930a8e5e11eff86ed6b0dba6fcb14d2b04170807ec9895/DSCF5482.JPG" data-mid="224855892" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d03349efc05f0c9a2930a8e5e11eff86ed6b0dba6fcb14d2b04170807ec9895/DSCF5482.JPG" /> This Bitter Earth Written, Produced, and Directed by Summer Jade Leavitt and Cara Dodge for The Queer Theory Library Stills by Rebeca Mendizabal 2023 https://leavittsummer.com/TQTL Fri, 16 Apr 2021 21:16:28 +0000 Summer Jade Leavitt https://leavittsummer.com/TQTL <img width="619" height="647" width_o="619" height_o="647" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65abb0a6e554c088cb4545ac7278423e926843c671ad7aced0d9c7e757cec7c3/tqtl.png" data-mid="163141757" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/619/i/65abb0a6e554c088cb4545ac7278423e926843c671ad7aced0d9c7e757cec7c3/tqtl.png" /> The Queer Theory Library is a library focused on creating a collective space for discussion, experimentation, and knowledge. Providing access to academic texts and activating them with curated cultural programming, the Library invites an engaged, imaginative experience and greater community dialogue. The Queer Theory Library also functions as an growing archive for local artists, writers, and residents to submit their work, writings, and ephemera. With a mission to radically shift and explore possibilities for queer thought, culture, and liberation, the Library is focused on abolition and futurism. How we frame our past and present influences the future we build; how we perceive and write our realities creates new worlds. Through education, collaboration, and creation, the QTL aims to enable, empower, and inspire our queer communities.Visit the Library https://leavittsummer.com/The-Seventh-Sun-Comes Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:06:45 +0000 Summer Jade Leavitt https://leavittsummer.com/The-Seventh-Sun-Comes <img width="1440" height="1444" width_o="1440" height_o="1444" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e24abc0abfa14cfb8ebfae6354b129e67e65526aa86e01bd0f831b5be13869a/EE0D240F-A807-4D45-B0DC-2C1B6B814369.JPG" data-mid="129766256" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e24abc0abfa14cfb8ebfae6354b129e67e65526aa86e01bd0f831b5be13869a/EE0D240F-A807-4D45-B0DC-2C1B6B814369.JPG" /><img width="1440" height="1444" width_o="1440" height_o="1444" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82e02d746c77224d837141004c44b39beef4755ec8025b38a59270cf4a894b34/31DEC64D-272F-4F07-A79D-02F732B9EDB8.JPG" data-mid="129766246" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82e02d746c77224d837141004c44b39beef4755ec8025b38a59270cf4a894b34/31DEC64D-272F-4F07-A79D-02F732B9EDB8.JPG" /><img width="1440" height="1444" width_o="1440" height_o="1444" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f52cbcd31cdd4f236ac2605ecdcf4b6f70b574bd33d761f7b590afed44e0df63/4B21A255-0A71-4121-B8EC-27B3F0F7C73C.JPG" data-mid="129766231" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f52cbcd31cdd4f236ac2605ecdcf4b6f70b574bd33d761f7b590afed44e0df63/4B21A255-0A71-4121-B8EC-27B3F0F7C73C.JPG" /> Untitled (The Seventh Sun Comes) Framed text, moss scented yarzheit candle, dew drops, 33 year recovery medallion, burnt penny, green carnation, tabebuia trunk, snail shell. Installed at Bas Fisher Invitational for The Symbiotic Shore 2021 https://leavittsummer.com/spit-and-swish-DO-NOT-SWALLOW Sun, 05 Nov 2023 22:50:49 +0000 Summer Jade Leavitt https://leavittsummer.com/spit-and-swish-DO-NOT-SWALLOW <img width="1126" height="1502" width_o="1126" height_o="1502" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5014e47694948917342b7038ed8f554e9178d11ae5eab8a91c1f21830fde9ca4/swishandspit.jpg" data-mid="195956943" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5014e47694948917342b7038ed8f554e9178d11ae5eab8a91c1f21830fde9ca4/swishandspit.jpg" /><img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6c82162dc4b8f508803216752f907533411497c4cee069722f004c3c91a07b7/swished.jpg" data-mid="195956949" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6c82162dc4b8f508803216752f907533411497c4cee069722f004c3c91a07b7/swished.jpg" /> Spit and Swish, DO NOT SWALLOW Standing atop a platform of dictionaries, I wore a double sided white button up and performed an unrecorded monologue between swishing and spitting saltwater into glass vessels for 2 hours. Performed for the exhibition&nbsp;Possible Bodies at Phosphor Project Space.dictionaries, saltwater, double sided business shirt, glass vessels, saliva. 2019 Top: post-performance, exorcised saliva captured in glass vessel Bottom: pre-performance, empty vessel atop dictionaries &nbsp; Top https://leavittsummer.com/Untitled-In-the-World Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:40:19 +0000 Summer Jade Leavitt https://leavittsummer.com/Untitled-In-the-World <img width="590" height="890" width_o="590" height_o="890" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9a313997f2eb73acc72e3cd6108cf8e4721ce93222331903abad96cd492ad64/photo1.png" data-mid="224874371" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/590/i/f9a313997f2eb73acc72e3cd6108cf8e4721ce93222331903abad96cd492ad64/photo1.png" /> <img width="887" height="557" width_o="887" height_o="557" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ab7b5261e3b7b3d5bb75a9c7d0349407a27c690f603f38f70753f674ac0c113/phtoo6.png" data-mid="224874365" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/887/i/5ab7b5261e3b7b3d5bb75a9c7d0349407a27c690f603f38f70753f674ac0c113/phtoo6.png" /><img width="561" height="880" width_o="561" height_o="880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/395fdacbe767ccff5ef6568ead38b156e99d440bc09de4d1ca9f73bf03a4f33c/photo3.png" data-mid="224874368" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/561/i/395fdacbe767ccff5ef6568ead38b156e99d440bc09de4d1ca9f73bf03a4f33c/photo3.png" /><img width="567" height="860" width_o="567" height_o="860" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e7d012ae3572219b0d541a9ec3ed060a42e636f8eba9d0c90e595c756ba5f54/photo5.png" data-mid="224874366" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/567/i/3e7d012ae3572219b0d541a9ec3ed060a42e636f8eba9d0c90e595c756ba5f54/photo5.png" /><img width="871" height="571" width_o="871" height_o="571" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b20f5eee5c0ee7867b6a77c160f738dbe4e268a9fc3d797057011038cdc59cc/photo4.png" data-mid="224874367" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/871/i/5b20f5eee5c0ee7867b6a77c160f738dbe4e268a9fc3d797057011038cdc59cc/photo4.png" /><img width="570" height="882" width_o="570" height_o="882" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eef8b2be070fa4cc5bd09d6615dd4bab6d2a439005ad75044d6f8cb0e4b6a4b2/photo2.png" data-mid="224874369" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/570/i/eef8b2be070fa4cc5bd09d6615dd4bab6d2a439005ad75044d6f8cb0e4b6a4b2/photo2.png" /> Selected photographs from the 2017&nbsp;In the World series, shot on black and white film. &nbsp; https://leavittsummer.com/callingthebody Fri, 16 Apr 2021 19:55:20 +0000 Summer Jade Leavitt https://leavittsummer.com/callingthebody <img width="4275" height="4875" width_o="4275" height_o="4875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6fd4b1aaa2dd0ce681bb3312c7636d611282d95fc8744cf13f07f7518ed41c0f/CALLINGTHEBODY.jpg" data-mid="105493960" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6fd4b1aaa2dd0ce681bb3312c7636d611282d95fc8744cf13f07f7518ed41c0f/CALLINGTHEBODY.jpg" /><img width="5060" height="4767" width_o="5060" height_o="4767" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/196bff7d0ec8054918062a43ab9bed879c0e53d0b752d1f6575582af7ba308c2/SANTONJOHNNY.jpg" data-mid="105494254" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/196bff7d0ec8054918062a43ab9bed879c0e53d0b752d1f6575582af7ba308c2/SANTONJOHNNY.jpg" /><img width="4275" height="4875" width_o="4275" height_o="4875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1de8aeb22f54e8acc9cb90113e8609fd04f02a9eaf607fb4638f04d425e0bbcd/TATT.jpg" data-mid="105494106" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1de8aeb22f54e8acc9cb90113e8609fd04f02a9eaf607fb4638f04d425e0bbcd/TATT.jpg" /> I walked with a loved one for an hour to Santo &amp; johnny's Sleepwalk: We exited through the front door, encircled the house, and re-entered through an upstairs back door. We went down the stairs and landed at the bottom exactly as the song ended. We stopped. My partner held me for a moment. There was a pause until she dipped a needle in ink and took it to my back. After leaving a permanent trace of our embrace on my body, she let go. The needle went back on the record, restarting Sleepwalk, and we continued on. Calling the Body I Cannot See Performance 2018