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Vaginal Davis’s oeuvre is where queer activism meets racial justice, where resistance meets joy, where punk meets the parlor room, and where Audre Lorde meets G.B. Jones. As a leading lady in punk, queer, and Black (art) histories in the United States and beyond, Vaginal Davis has made scenes for a living—from her hometown Los Angeles to her adopted home Berlin.
Vaginal Davis’s archive at the Wilshire Westlake Building. dresser all the drawers Photograph by author, 2004 were packed with photographs, flyers, and other ephemera from her various concerts, performative lectures, and performance art. Later it would seem that much of the contents of this dresser ...
Vaginal Davis, Her Cardboard Lover, 2017, watercolor pencil, nail varnish, lip stain, eye shadow, glycerin, hydrogen peroxide, witch hazel, coconut oil, cocoa butter, perfume, hair spray, Anacin Fast Pain Relief tablets, Excedrin Migraine & Headache tablets, Lydia E. Pinkham Women’s Compound, and Health Tonic on paper, 11 × 8 1⁄4".
3 de mar. de 2020 · R “Vaginal Davis: The White to be Angry”. Through 4/26, Sun-Tue and Sat 10:30 AM-5 PM, Wed-Fri 10:30 AM-8 PM, the Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan, artic.edu, $25, $22 for Illinois ...
4 de feb. de 2020 · In the 90s, genderqueer performance artist Vaginal Davis created comedic movies on Super 8 and 16mm film with no budget that were constantly rejected by gay and lesbian film festivals. She was ...
Vaginal Davis (Los Angeles, Califòrnia, 1959) és una artista estatunidenca, pintora, comissària independent, compositora i escriptora, impulsora del moviment homocore punk i icona musicoartística queer, membre de la banda Cholita! The Female Menudo, amb hits com ara «Jo no sóc puta, sóc princesa».. Davis va arribar a ser ben coneguda en la dècada de 1980 a la ciutat de Nova York.
Davis also shares stories from the early days of writing and circulating Fertile LaToya Jackson, a queercore zine, illuminating her contribution to the emerging internationalism of the zine movement. In addition, Davis’s interview offers salient insight into the larger challenges she and other artists of color and alternative sexual orientation faced due to the racial, economic and gender ...
