The Videofag Book
- Authors
- Jordan Tannahill & Jordan Tannahill & Ellis, William & Tannahill, Jordan
- Publisher
- Book Thug
- Tags
- poetry , history , anthologies
- Date
- 2017-11-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 7.80 MB
- Lang
- en
In October 2012, lovers William Ellis and Jordan Tannahill moved into a former barbershop in Toronto's Kensington Market neighbourhood and turned it into an art space called Videofag. Over the next four years Videofag became a hub for counterculture in the city, playing host to a litany of performances, screenings, parties, exhibitions, and all manner of queer fuckery. But hosting a city in their house took its toll and eventually William and Jordan broke up, closing the space for good in June 2016.
The Videofag Book is a chronicle of those four years told in three parts: a personal history of Videofag by William and Jordan; a community oral history compiled by Chandler Levack; and A Man Vanishes , a noir theatrical thriller set at Videofag by playwright Greg MacArthur.