Video artist Michelle Handelman discusses vampire jewel thieves, censorship, and re-interpreting The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Irma Vep, The Last Breath opened at The Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University on September 20, 2013.
Judith Shimer is a feminist artist and musician living in Brooklyn.
Investigating the photographic portrait.
Goddamn it to motherfucking hell, she says. I think that ought to cover it, he says. He asks her why she feels the need to swear so much, so deliberately, what depends on it, why it’s so important to her. Why, after so long, she hasn’t grown tired. Worn out in the mouth.
Two artists manifest, claim, and demand space in a society that operates around violence against black women’s bodies while pretending that they don’t exist.
How do I build a fugitive choreography, one that’s always in the process of escaping itself, then coming back to reaffirm itself, only to slide away again? The act of interpreting a choreography is made live by the performers, which is the invitation in my work.
Ligia Lewis
