Be a Part of Art!
I'm creating three zines which are very audience participation. If you'd like to participate in any of these three projects, please comment, or email me at lesbianthespian@gmail.com. Feel free to pass this along to your friends.
1. I'm recruiting typically feminine women. You don't have to wear dresses all the time or have long hair, but women that have never been mistaken for anything but women. For this project, I'll be asking these women to dress as men (as close to passing for a man as possible) for one day. Then, I will ask that they create something that is representative of their experience. I can be a photograph, a story, a poem, a painting; anything that they feel captures their experience.
2. I am collecting anonymous secret letters. These are the letters you write to your ex that you'll never send, telling them how wonderful/awful/crazy/beautiful they are. The letters you write to your mom telling her how much you love her/hate her/hate it when she buys you ugly sweaters. The letters you write to the waitress at the diner/girl on the bus/boy in your class. The letters you write to the President, to your garbage man, to yourself. Letters that you can't send/won't send/don't know where to send. I will not print any names, and you can send them to me anonymously. They can be sad, angry, trite, funny, or a little of all.
3. I will be sending out envelopes containing approximately 15 words of Magnetic Poetry. Using only these words, you will create a poem, which you will write on a piece of paper. You will put this paper in a separate envelope, and include it in the package, which you will then send on to someone else of your choosing. That person will then, without looking at the paper in your envelope, create their own poem from the same words. Then, they can remove your paper from the envelope, and add theirs to it, sending it on to the next person, etc. When it reaches 5 or 6 people, they will then send it back to me.
1. I'm recruiting typically feminine women. You don't have to wear dresses all the time or have long hair, but women that have never been mistaken for anything but women. For this project, I'll be asking these women to dress as men (as close to passing for a man as possible) for one day. Then, I will ask that they create something that is representative of their experience. I can be a photograph, a story, a poem, a painting; anything that they feel captures their experience.
2. I am collecting anonymous secret letters. These are the letters you write to your ex that you'll never send, telling them how wonderful/awful/crazy/beautiful they are. The letters you write to your mom telling her how much you love her/hate her/hate it when she buys you ugly sweaters. The letters you write to the waitress at the diner/girl on the bus/boy in your class. The letters you write to the President, to your garbage man, to yourself. Letters that you can't send/won't send/don't know where to send. I will not print any names, and you can send them to me anonymously. They can be sad, angry, trite, funny, or a little of all.
3. I will be sending out envelopes containing approximately 15 words of Magnetic Poetry. Using only these words, you will create a poem, which you will write on a piece of paper. You will put this paper in a separate envelope, and include it in the package, which you will then send on to someone else of your choosing. That person will then, without looking at the paper in your envelope, create their own poem from the same words. Then, they can remove your paper from the envelope, and add theirs to it, sending it on to the next person, etc. When it reaches 5 or 6 people, they will then send it back to me.