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Arrested Childhood
For those who have forgotten the savage inner child, or the fierce manipulation of socialization and growing up, “Arrested Childhood”...
Maria Artemis and Eleanor Hovda: Labyrinths
“Labyrinths,” a multi-media installation by Maria Artemis and Eleanor Hovda, was created to raise awareness of the ways in which...
Uses of the Erotic: Sexuality and Difference in Lesbian Film and Video
This paper is an attempt to explore the ways in which the erotic, as a category and a practice of...
Erotics of the Image
Why would it be important, right now, to defend such ambiguity and indeterminacy? Why might I counterpose, to an agenda straightforward, “in your face” lesbian representation, an alternate erotics of surrogacy and displacement? There is no question that we are in a period of intense commodification of identity, with an attendant demand for extremely reductive and normalizing approaches to image-making.
I Seek to Steal the Sexual Body
This feature originally appeared in ART PAPERS November/December 1994 In my persistent drive to locate images of my radical black...
Against Cultural Amnesia
This feature originally appeared in ART PAPERS November/December 1994 Cultural amnesia seems to have reached epidemic proportions. Everyone, including...
Alison Nguyen’s Andra8 and the Gig Workers of the Data Economy
Sitting in front of a wrinkled sea-green backdrop is Andra8, the protagonist of Alison Nguyen’s 19-minute film my favorite software...
WangShui: Uncertainty in the Network
One of my earliest memories of the artist WangShui is of cats. Cats were the focus of their undergraduate thesis...