Queen Street Magic Boat stimulates radical possibility both in content and in form.
Queen Boat is a living gallery, residency + gathering space, fern garden, theatre, stained-glass studio, and SCUBA diving school. A hub for creative people of all ages who have embodied experiences of institutional oppression, Queen Boat supports a mycorrhizal network of communities that intersect in various movements, identities, visions, water bodies, and media forms create new worlds in real time.
Because . . .
Or. . .
Because your work sings to a rarity. Because you’re darkness and prismatic. Because in a flood, you make your own path. (Red ants clump together and make themselves a raft!) Because you know how to get out, and rise at the same time. Because, when I hear you talk, I want to listen. Because your power is juxtaposition, of carving, allowing, pummeling, and easing. Because, if you can’t break through (and you want to), you evaporate and pool on the other side. Because the other side. Because you’re willing to tell me. Because when I see you move, I want to move: You can be seen; you can be invisible; like how you can run underground, or stain the sky red. Because nobody can bless you; you’re already blessed.
Queen Street Magic Boat’s lead organizer is Catherine Edgerton (they / she / Ed). Edgerton refracts images through multimedia collage and kaleidoscopic play to interrogate notions of sanity in the US. Building in layers, in books, in home, and in community, Edgerton interrogates myths of “good” mental health in the context of white supremacy culture in the US. In expansion of this work, Edgerton invites lens-shifting through stained glass kaleidoscopes and oceanic immersion, juxtaposing the mundane with play to create surreal visions of patterns and light. Catherine is accountable to Gallery of the Streets and a circle of local advisors.
