This Saturday! As part of the Anthropology Graduate Conference FLOW/RUPTURE I’m hosting “Drawing Flesh as Queering Practice” as a lived exploration of my research - where I employ academic X somatic processes.
Through guided drawing exercises, we examine the ways in which bodies—our own and others’—are shaped by cultural, personal, and societal narratives. The drawings themselves are not the focus (all skill levels welcome!) but the disruption that occurs.
RSVP IN BIO
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Figuring Flesh is an ARCHIVE - it collects the objects and ideas of LABS in which - through creative practice and conversation - we collaboratively interrogate interalized body logics of colonialty, normativity, and erasure. Often its easy to point outward -to critique systems - but harder to sit with how those systems have shaped our own postures, our own intimacies, our own refusals. Figuring Flesh LABS invites this upheaval. We disrupt assumptions. It is a “brave space” of softness, rigor, and vulnerability as method, and of queer worldmaking that begins in the body. Failures, in comforming and in learning, are welcomed.
Figuring Flesh is not a space of easy answers or fixed identities, but of embodied inquiry. Discomfort
is not a failure of the work -it’s often where
the work begins. We invite particpants
into a space where feeling lost,
exposed, or unsure is met with
curiosity and care.
Expect to feel:
uncomfortable,
unfettered,
vulnerable,
tended,
We’re so excited to host this conversation about love and care, body and spirit, and the ways in which we can engage and dismantle the harmful systems that get in the way of our fullest expressions of self. This is the first of hopefully many conversations led by @chimerasinger at Index that seek to offer both philosophical and pragmatic approaches to fighting the patriarchy, spanning from the scale of the personal to the universal. Sign up at the link in bio!
book a studio portrait session with me!!!
First Monday and Second Saturday for both May and June!
Link in Bio to Book :)
Film onlyyyy
$450/session for one hour (on these days only!)
This covers film, dev, scan, and studio rental!
8 images to keep from a selection of many more.
$200 deposit to hold your spot.
DM if you have questions
“Postcards to _” from my the Nude But Male-ish exhibit at @living___skin a ways back :)
One person started “Today you blew our life up + I’m still in disbelief..”
Because I’m bad at posting. Here’s a few “pretty” non brainy publications from over the years :) teeth mag, nyt, atmos, fucking young mag, alt press mag…there are many others but this was as far as today’s scrounge up got :) unlisted are of pigeons and planes, complex, Elle uk, Vogue, Albuquerque mag, and I don’t even remember what else (I should really think about write out and out my cv/resume in a thorough distilled way)
While these texts are part of conversations with non trans men (all different and not associated with the specific individuals in the images), They reflect a fear of flaccidity, a fear of curiosity, a fear of body, and asking questions.
The work is not to excuse choices simply as symptoms, to perceive men as uniquely fragile, or argue to take on the work of “fixing.”
But to interrogate masculinit(ies) as disciplinary regimes that operate through material and visual systems, enforced through visual/spacial mechanisms; ones that we participate in by fearing bodies (our own and others). I say masculinities because they play out very differently geographically, racially, etc.
I have included an excerpt of a book I read as part of my thesis (and since).
Let’s trace the mechanisms that enforce harmful masculinities!!
These works are part of the ongoing Nude But Male-Ish masculinity work I am doing. I do not weave these, I have them digitally printed.
Aside from the direct correlation to digital processes and mediations in my work, and the critique I make of the consistent social/cultural want to “separate” them from material bodies (these are taken on film, scanned, digitally edited in that process, digitally woven into blankets, the conversations pre-shoot are recorded and happen via Zoom, we discuss mediation and embodiment of the digital as part of this, etc.)….
I dont feel the need to weave the fabric myself in the same way that I dont feel the need to make my own paper or build my own computer. Though some artists can and will do that. I have no need to, for me the process often doesn’t give way or necessitate weaving, mixing, drying, hammering, molding. For me the material matters in what it communicates, and what is the best route of getting there. The communication of the material need not be made by me. The idea is the part that needs the material. When a writer writes on paper and made by ink, or a computer made of metals and glass and software of others, we do not call it lack of skill. I do not need to make my clay, though I have friends that do because that is part of the process and their work for the ideas they communicate. These are all tools.
