TextaQueen - More than Australia’s Felt Tip Super Hero
We caught TextaQueen at the Sister Spit 2013 kickoff show presenting their poster series entitled We Don’t Need Another Hero. The posters showcase people of color starring as badass outlaws in post-apocalypse movies. The hyperbole characteristic of these kinds of movie posters is actually real when it comes to how people of color survived their colonialism and these pieces awesomely celebrate that valor. Get back get back g-g-g-get back get back!
After the show, we were literally so hungry that we could only mind-babble potentially-too-personal-information at eachother #nofilter. By the time we got our hands on plantains and papusas, I somehow knew Texta’s housing history, Texta knew my body ailments, and multiple ex’s had come up in conversation. Once replenished, we finally talked about our projects. As an Indian born in Australia, Texta experienced exotification amongst their peers and queers before they were even mature enough to get why. Now Texta’s art reflects practices of self-exploration, self-discovery, and self-love as a queer person of color and directs that love towards community building amongst poc. It’s no wonder we found each other.
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P.S. Texta gave me a copy of their zine and lets just say this poem NEEDS to be a guest verse on the next GreedHead release.
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scopophilia, nan goldin, showcased at mathew marks gallery, 2011
scopophilia (greek scopos , -or- that notes + -philia ) sf 1. [psychology] pathological desire to show off or be seen by others. 2. sexual pleasure that comes from observation of sexual acts.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8g0mc8QDI1qbpdcto1_500.jpg)
View Larger scopophilia, nan goldin, showcased at mathew marks gallery, 2011
scopophilia (greek scopos , -or- that notes + -philia ) sf 1. [psychology] pathological desire to show off or be seen by others. 2. sexual pleasure that comes from observation of sexual acts.
This Saturday, May 18th come and celebrate the opening of Lorna William’s second solo show with DODGE gallery: still / birth / shit
DODGEgallery is pleased to present appositions: still / birth / shit, Lorna Williams’ second solo exhibition with the gallery.
Williams’ anthropomorphic sculptures are meticulous amalgams of unlikely and often provocative material juxtapositions. In appositions: still / birth / shit, Williams continues to use the body as her primary subject while focusing on the specific and essential process of birthing and digesting. Plastic teeth, locked hair, root systems, pipes, stones, thorns and snakeskin, are some of the artist’s materials, assembled to form the material ecosystem of each piece and a collective narrative throughout the body of work.Here’s the facebook event for more information.
…. I’m going to go right ahead and tell you that Maria Sibylla Merian is one of my favorite badass ladies of the science/art world.
Born in Germany during the mid 1600s, Merian began her artistic career at a young age, painting her first observations of insects around age 13. She spent most of her life studying and composing beautiful watercolor paintings of her observations of nature and is most noted for being the first person to clearly record the life cycles of moths and butterflies. She made a self-funded expedition to Suriname where she recorded a bunch of previously unknown flora and fauna, she invented a washable fabric cloth, and published several books. Mind you, this was at a time when oil paints weren’t considered lady-like, the western world believed that moths and butterflies spontaneously birthed themselves from mud, and western ladies were advised not to go into tropical climates because it was known that women would furiously menstruate themselves into a hemorrhaging death.
Please do yourself a favor and go read a book about this woman. Thank you for your time.
