Race, gender and sexuality are important concepts in your work. Can you talk about how these concepts inform your art practice?

As a queer person of colour, I am fascinated by how others construct their identities and how it manifests in other people’s bodies. I have a sense of how it manifests in my life and I am interested in exploring that in my work, but I suppose I am fascinated by how other people do that – perform their gender and their race and whether its important to them or not. Gender and sexuality were my first strong interests before realising as each work shed a skin, there were other things that were present in each work. My fascination was with human bodies and peeling away the surface, or puncturing the surface to find out what’s inside.

via Interview with Owen Leong | Peril magazine

Sistahs 2003. Zanele Muholi.

Her photographs offer a view from the inside, a personal perspective on the challenges facing black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in the (South African) townships and other communities. via Michael Stevenson gallery

Whole of Muholi’s Only Half the Picture exhibition at linked gallery. Much NSFW content: erotic nudes, hate crime survivor scars, periods etc.

(via Art & Photography: Sunil Gupta | Feature Shoot)

sisterwolf:

Yasumasa Morimura - An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Hand Shaped Earring), 2001

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(via Soody Sharifi • Artist, Photographer - Houston, TX)

‘Hey! Listen’ from Sharifi’s Teenagers series. View her more recent multimedia works here.

garconniere:

halfmongrel:

Tomoko Sawada, ID400 (#1-100) (detail), 1998-2001, 100 gelatin silver prints, 50 x 39 1/4 inches, Edition of 15 via Zabriskie Gallery

amazing.

via Mi Pelo Largo Querido : Irina Werning - Photographer

Patagonia, from Werning’s ‘Loved my long hair’ series of portraits of anonymous South American women displaying their long hair. 

via BACK TO THE FUTURE : Irina Werning - Photographer

Wernings’ statement on the Back to the Future series:

I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today… A few months ago, I decided to actually do this. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future.

Looks like she’s doing another series in 2011 from the site. 

I’m on the look out for models to pose as an animal, character, creature, object or other fun thing for a new publication project of mine, a kids A to Z Book. 

A portrait session takes around 1 hour, up to 3 hours, and can be drawn at your home, my studio in Collingwood, Melbourne or other location (backdrops/backgrounds not really required). I will use your portrait as a basis for a scenario that frames your character in your chosen letter. For example, models Warren and Poss have already posed together as two hotdogs squirting each other with sauce to form the letter ‘H’ (sample at  www.flickr.com/photos/textaqueen). A little verse for each letter scenario will accompany illustrations that I intend to be kid-friendly but cheeky as heck. 

Preferably YOU come up with your letter, character and scenario (some letters are already spoken for), including your costume! Of course I can help with ideas and I can’t sew very well but I can staple and sticky tape ok. I’m imagining some of you have some amazing performance, halloween or dress up number you can appropriate. And I’ll use my texta magic to work the creases out. You don’t need a backdrop, because I can make it up.

I’m based in Melbourne but visit Sydney often. I might make it to Brisbane sometime before print time, and possibly Alice Springs and Perth too.

In return for posing you’ll receive a little load of TextaQueen merchandise and, also, if I use your portrait in the publication, you will receive a copy of the book.

Please drop me a line to textasforever at gmail dot com with the subject heading ‘Alphabet!’ if you’re interested in posing, the letter you like, the character or thing you want to pose as, where you are, etc and I’ll get back to you shortly. 

I plan to draw the initial drawings from March til later in the year (publication date not set as yet).

OMG! TextaQueen is a personal favorite artist. Can I make it to Melbourne, is “F” taken [femme outfoxers]. If you’re in Brisbane, and I provide the costume, would you be up to be the Red Riding Hood to my F?

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futureshipwreck:

Adrian and Stevie as a Wild Thing and Max by the always-awesome Carla Frances

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via Julie Fogarty’s blog, The legend of Petra Flurr Berlin, 2010

Jackie T. Berlin, 2010

From Julie Fogarty’s Portraits in a Queer Time and Place  series, documenting people who occupy the social time and place discussed in Halberstams’ book.

curate:

Yasmin Hernandez, Todas Mujeres

2005
Mixed media on paper
31”x22”

This work was donated to 400 Portraits: The Women of Juarez Program. Organized by the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance of UCLA, an auction was held in mid-May in Los Angeles to benefit Casa Amiga, an organization that works with the families of victims and to spread awareness of the on-going violence against women around Cuidad Juarez, Mexico.

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