kusama pyjamas
Titled for Yayoi Kusama, who is the cat's pyjamas.
Dynamics of Desire by Del La Grace Volcano (an excerpt)
“Images exist; things themselves are images… Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement…”
Gilles Deleuze As a photographer who deals in seduction and exchange I have been wondering why it is that people allow themselves to be photographed by me in what you could call comprising positions. Although I usually pay travel expenses, give them prints and occasionally a bit of money, if I am being paid, the incentive to ‘pose, perform or model’ for me isn’t financial. I ask them to submit to my fantasies and to confess their own to me. At times they may be in great physical discomfort and occasionally at risk, from the law or the less than law abiding, who wish to censor their display. Is it any more than narcissistic pleasure? Or an overwhelming desire to speak sex and hear it spoken?”
In this piece I want to examine what I call the ‘photographic moments’ in terms of some of the processes involved. Those seldom seen and rarely talked about moments that exist before the images is created and after the images is ‘consumed’ by the spectator….
St.George Bank Brisbane International Film Festival
Phoebe Harts’ documentary Orchids:My Intersex Adventure makes it’s world premiere tomorrow in Brisbane!
Please humour me for a moment, as I tell you how happy I am that this is happening in Brisbane, from a local queer artist in collaboration with an awesome director like Ali Russell.
Brisbane has a residual reputation, deserving or not, as being the runner up of Oz arts and queer activism, compared to Sydney and Melbourne.
To be fair, when I made tentative motions to speak on intersex locally, I was alternately appalled and nonplussed at how ignorant even some very visible queer group advocates were in response.
That said! Brisvegas is random. For every person who responds to the fishbowl experience with distance or attitude, someone else responds with experimentation and enthusiasm. So big thanks to Hart and Russell for their efforts, I’m really looking forward to this.
p.s. If you’re going, I’ll be the 30-ish redhead who may have a youngish teenager in tow. Whatever, come say hi.
A friend of mine, who just so happens to be AWESOME, is working on an anthology of people who have genders that are non-conforming to society’s standards. I’m really freaking excited to read this book…the problem is, they are still looking for submissions to it.
So if your gender is non-conforming in some way, any way, get yourself up to write a submission for this so I can eventually read it in all of its coolness. You can click here, or read below for more info.
Call for Submissions:
Working Title: Stalled
Editors: K. Bridgeman and A. Lee Crayton
Contact: stalled.the.book [at] gmail [dot] com
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2010
The range of gender non-conforming folks is broad. We are men, women, genderqueers, two-spirits, trans women/transwomen, trans men/transmen, intersex, bois, grrrls, butchs, faeries, FtMs, MtFs, tomboys, drag queens, transvestites, transexuals, queers, none or maybe all of the above?* In a society that preaches gender as rigid, fighting for gender self-determination can be challenging. For some the process is finite, traveling from point A to point B, while others wade continuously through the mire or transcend altogether. But despite the trajectory of our own personal journey, we all experience the polarizing demands of the binary.
Link site = NSFW
