Inside Killjoy's Kastle
Subtitle: dykey ghosts, feminist monsters, and other lesbian hauntings
By: edited by Allyson Mitchell and Cait McKinney
Contributors: York University (Toronto, Ont.). Art Gallery
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Vancouver; Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780774861588
Subjects: Installations (Art); Performance art; Feminism in art; Lesbianism in art; Féminisme dans l'art; Lesbianisme dans l'art
Description: "Lesbian feminist histories can have a haunting effect on the present. This book explores the making and experience of Killjoy's Kastle, an immersive walk-through installation and performance artwork (by Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue). Inspired by Evangelical Christian hell houses of the past, the exhibition has been staged in three cities so far--Toronto, London, and Los Angeles--engaging thousands in interactive encounters with the spirits that haunt feminist and queer history. Where traditional hell houses set out to scare and convert, Killjoy's Kastle cheekily aims to provoke and pervert. Inside Killjoy's Kastle extends and reflects on the theoretical and political legacies of the installation in chapters by queer and feminist scholars and in vignettes by participating artists. The many colourful photos in the book also bring the Kastle to life, offering an important visual context."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Co-published by Art Gallery of York University.
Table of contents: title: Scaling Up and Sharing Out Dyke Culture: Killjoy's Kastle's Haunted Block Party / Heather Love; title: Lesbianizing the Institution: The Haunting Effects of Killjoy Hospitality at the Art Gallery of York University / Emelie Chhangur; title: Feminist Killjoys (and Other Wilful Subjects) / Sara Ahmed; title: Killjoy in the ONE Archives: Activating Los Angeles's Queer Art and Activist Histories / David Evans Frantz; title: Inside Job: Collaboration and Queer-Feminist Contagion in Killjoy's Kastle / Helena Reckitt; title: Valerie Solanas as the Goddamned Welcoming Committee / Felice Shays; title: Valerie Solanas Script; title: Playing Demented Women's Studies Professor Tour Guide, or Performing Monstrosity in Killjoy's Kastle / Moynan King; title: Demented Women's Studies Professor Tour Guide Script; title: The Sound of White Girls Crying / Nazmia Jamal; title: Paranormal Killjoys / Ginger Brooks Takahasi; title: Menstruating Trans Man / Chase Joynt; title: A Ring around Your Finger Is a Cord around Your Genitals! / Chelsey Lichtman; title: Once upon a Time I Was a Riot Ghoul / Kalale Dalton-Lutale; title: Riot Ghoul / Andie Shabbar; title: Inconvenienced / Madelyne Beckles; title: On the Cusp of the Kastle / Karen Tongson; title: Processing Killjoy's Kastle: A Deep Lez Performance / Ann Cvetkovich; title: Facebook Statements:"We Learn More Every Time We Do This"; title: Refl ections of a Real-Life Feminist Killjoy: Ball-Busters and the Recurring Trauma of Intergenerational Queer-Feminist Life / Kyla Wazana Tompkins; title: R.I.P. Little Frida's / Chris E. Vargas; title: Home Sick: Horror, Gothic Storytelling, and the Queers Who Haunt Houses / S. Trimble; title: The Graveyards of Community Gathering: Archiving Lesbian and Feminist Life in London / Catherine Grant; title: Leave Britney Alone! and Other Ghostly Feelings / Tobias B.D. Wiggins.