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In North Carolina? Join me at my Public Lecture at Davidson College Queer Communities, Queer Critiques: Artists at the Intersection of Gender, Race and Sexuality October 25th, 7-9 p.m. Myself and Poet & Novelist Brandon Lacy Campos, Hosted by Prof Shanté Paradigm Smalls
I wanted to communicate beyond the limitations of my spoken language and the time that I live in.
The burden falls on the minority to explain itself to the majority.
I am disillusioned by the relationship between the means of production required to produce images, the privileged position of arbiters who determine which images might be seen and moreover elevated– so often those images prized by the establishment reify their position of power in the world and interest in seeing flattering depictions of themselves.
I am fatigued by the ratio of art that features nude women photographed by men. I’m disgusted that terrorism is understood in wars fought abroad but not behind closed doors on the bodies of women, children and incarcerated men. Both are horrific and unrelenting.
I’m frustrated that a heterosexual narrative is universal and a queer story is specific. I’m disgusted that white is normal and black is racialized, that men and women are treated as opposites utterly fixed in their polarities.
These are lies.
The burden remains on the minority to explain itself to the majority. I am resigned to this inescapable fact.
Truer at Kopeikin Gallery this Sunday, West Hollywood, CA
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Women’s Work slideshow on Sunday at Kopeikin Gallery
Sunday, April 25 at 6:30pm
End Time: Sunday, April 25 at 11:55pm
Where: 8810 Melrose Avenue West Hollywood, CA 90069
Artists will include (!):
Alessandra Sanguinetti * Alex Prager * Alicia Ross * Anastasia Taylor-Lind * Andy Freeberg * Angelika Rinnhofer * Brenda Ann Kenneally * Callie Lipkin * Carl Bower * Christina Felice * Colby Katz * Elinor Carucci * Jen Davis * Jennifer Osborne * Jennifer Shaw * Jodi Bieber/Institute * Jonathan Torgovnik/MediaStorm * Julie Blackmon * Kerry Mansfield * Lauren Greenfield/Institute * Lynnette Astaire * Michael & Davida Horn * Phillip Toledano * Robert Yager * Rosanne Olson * Sarah Hughes * Sara Terry * Sarah Sudhoff * Sari Wynne * Shiho Fukada * Simone Lueck * Sophia Wallace * Susan Meiselas/Magnum * Toni Greaves * Wren Noble
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I’m grateful @calebcasberry @homegrownboi and devastated to discover Flo McGarrell a talented visual artist who perished along with 75,000 Haitians (can this number really be true?) in the quake. NPR mentioned Flo in this piece.
Here some excerpts of an interview Flo gave,
The work I do in the States is conscious of the struggles of my friends living in Haiti, of how hard it is to get food, and to get one’s basic needs met. So, as an exercise I try not to buy anything in order to make the work, everything is found in the trash or stolen. It works really well for me over here in the States, but that process is nearly impossible in Haiti, where it is very rare to find something useful in the trash (because everyone is already ingeniously reusing things), and it goes without saying that I wouldn’t steal anything in Haiti.
His parents remember him for his passion, dedication, confidence and generosity — and for boldly living his own unique life.
After receiving the tragic news, Ann McGarrell said she was watching an unending film of Flo’s life in her mind throughout the day. One of her favorite scenes from that movie starred a 12-year-old Flo McGarrell at school in St. Louis.A tornado was approaching, Ann McGarrell said, and the skies were darkened and ominous. She had gone to school to pick her child up and take her home. “Everyone was huddled inside,” Ann McGarrell said. “Flo was outside, dancing in the rain.”http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100115/THISJUSTIN/1150333
My current work, “The Pink and Blue Projects are the topic of my thesis. This project explores the trends in cultural preferences and the differences in the tastes of children (and their parents) from diverse cultures, ethnic groups as well as gender socialization and identity. The work also raises other issues, such as the relationship between gender and consumerism, urbanization, the globalization of consumerism and the new capitalism.”
