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The Skull Project Artist Statement I have worked on eggshells since I was a child, learning the traditional Ukrainian art of pysanky from my mother. This is the same Eastern Slavic tradition that produced the exquisite work of Fabrege, who was creating jeweled eggs and objets d’art for the Russian aristocracy. This artistic and cultic … Read more

Bésame Mucho Artist Statement Bésame Mucho “Bésame Mucho” is a plea for love and understanding, a call-out to sexual liberation and self expression. It is a comic made to honor of the struggle of the young activists of MHOL in Lima facing violence and religious intolerance. —Carlo Quispe Artist Links Biography

The Sisters Do Rockefeller Artist Statement The Sisters Do Rockefeller The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence was originated in 1979 in San Francisco. The order exists to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt. There are orders allover the world entertaining depressed people, stealing rich people’s money at charity auctions to finance gender reassignments, and, of … Read more

Phallometer Artist Statement Redefining Difference The topics in my work stem from my personal experiences as an intersex person. Both the history of otherness and political activism inform my practice. Mutants, Monsters, Freaks and Misfits are incorporating the fears of a norm-constrained culture and represent the boundaries of the acceptable—reflecting the face of the regulators … Read more

Tit for Twat Artist Statement Tit for Twat Tit for Twat addresses the biblical presumption of heterosexuality and its relationship to other theories of origin. Tit for Twat (1993 ongoing) takes quite literally the taunt heard in the early 90s on what was then called trash TV that if God had wanted homosexuality it would … Read more

A Fire in My Belly About the Work A Fire in My Belly A Fire In My Belly, 1986-87/ 2010Edited by Jonathan D. Katz and Bart EverlyWith additional audio added from ACT UP demonstration June 1989 with David Wojnarowicz event Courtesy of The Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York and The Fales … Read more

The censoring of David Wojnarowicz’s video “Fire in my Belly” at the Smithsonian portraiture show Hide/Seek last year, under pressure from the radical religious right, reminds us that intermingling the sexuality and materiality of bodies with the transcendental concepts and questions of spirituality and religion can still shock. But as Janet Jakobsen queries in the Afterword to this special … Read more

Discourses of race, gender and sexuality have always served an important ideological function within imperialist projects. The current phase of American imperialism, characterized by the Global War on Terror is no exception, as evidenced by the cynical deployment of ‘women’s rights’ by the Bush regime to legitimate the bombing of Afghanistan. Given the contemporary geo-political … Read more