Barbara Hammer. Double Strength, 1978. Four stages of a lesbian relationship explored in an experimental film starring performance artists Terry Sendgraff and Barbara Hammer on suspended trapezes and ropes. (via Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: Feminist Art Base: Barbara Hammer)

Insanity magnet (ongoing) | Hiromi Hotel

Moving away from themes of unconditional love and providing shelter, Insanity Magnet draws on the detritus and ‘pus’ of humanity’s subconsciousness. Occurring sometimes as a performance, sometimes a sculptural object or installation, Insanity Magnet is a work that evolves as the artist continues her process of accumulating and editing, presence and absence. Tango explores the nature of mental illness, hope and hopelessness, function and dysfunction. She states that “my interest had been in listening to stories, spending time with people and absorbing or interpreting this world as honestly and sincerely as possible, but the more I try, I feel a strong emptiness and anger over our existence.”  Insanity Magnet is a manifestation of the darkness that lurks in the souls, minds and bodies of humanity. Hiromi intends to collect ‘material’ (metaphorical or physical) from public interactions and artistic collaborations, and to create the work in isolation. Insanity Magnet will appear as part of the Hiromi Hotel tour around Australia throughout 2010 – 2012 where guest artists will also be invited to create their own creature in isolation.

photo credit :1-3 Yuki Nakano, 4,5 Craig Walsh, 6 Hiromi Tango

I love all of Hiromi Tango’s interactive pop culture detritus sculptures. Yes, you can address alienation with awesome play.

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queershoulder:

Girl Crush is out! My story in the anthology, “Girl Crazy,” is a smutty intertextual epistolary yarn about 2 ex-riot grrrls in lust. It is also about negotiating disability, age differences, non-monogamy and s/m within the context of a new relationship. And about the feeling of being 21 and Brand New To a Scene and Into Everything and Hella Crushed Out On A Really Cool Girl and Getting the Girl. It’s probably my most chipper smut to date. And God, how I wish I’d thought to read it at Rebel Girl — woulda been perfect. Oh well, at least you can read it in this book. Thanks so much to the wonderful R. Gay for publishing this story I’m so proud of!

More at the Girl Crush blog. p.s. the word crush always makes me think of Darren Hayes.