london deep lez tonight
Sunday January 13 2008, 8pm - 10pm
WHIP
Studio Voltaire, 1a Nelsons Row, Clapham Common.
A whip is a great way to get someone to be here now.
They can't look away from it, and they can't think about anything else.
Pat Califia, A Secret Side of Lesbian Sexuality, in: The Advocate, December 27, 1979
Ginger Brooks Takahashi presents a new video work 'Whip' made with Ulrike Mueller.
On one side radical lesbian sexuality that takes power and aggression into account, on the other the desire for an utopian place of peace and harmony. A dark leather scene in a dungeon versus lovemaking in field of flowers. What if we want both? The desire of safety, comfort, excitement and radical sexuality, all of them in a space reigned by our feminist politics. Monique Wittig, Pat Califia, Gayle Rubin, and lesbian feminist S/M support groups like "Samois" and "Outcast" have been resources in their working towards an actualization of lesbian and S/M communities and fictions of the past towards the queer sexuality and politics we're into.
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Ginger will present a selection of film and video work from Cinenova, women's film and video distribution made with Emma Hedditch.
http://www.cinenova.org.uk
Ginger Brooks Takahashi (b. 1977) lives in New York, maintaining a social, project-based practice, collaboratively creating situations for sharing work. Among these projects: LTTR, a queer and feminist art journal, and projet MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE project, a traveling exhibit of artist books and zines. LTTR has presented public projects at documenta 12, The Generali Foundation, The Kitchen, Art In General, and received Printed Matter's Emerging Artist Publication Award in 2005. Takahashi completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2007. She has exhibited at venues including Artists Space, NY; Art Metropole, Toronto; La Centrale, Montreal; Space 1026, Philadelphia; and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.
http://www.brookstakahashi.com
WHIP
Studio Voltaire, 1a Nelsons Row, Clapham Common.
A whip is a great way to get someone to be here now.
They can't look away from it, and they can't think about anything else.
Pat Califia, A Secret Side of Lesbian Sexuality, in: The Advocate, December 27, 1979
Ginger Brooks Takahashi presents a new video work 'Whip' made with Ulrike Mueller.
On one side radical lesbian sexuality that takes power and aggression into account, on the other the desire for an utopian place of peace and harmony. A dark leather scene in a dungeon versus lovemaking in field of flowers. What if we want both? The desire of safety, comfort, excitement and radical sexuality, all of them in a space reigned by our feminist politics. Monique Wittig, Pat Califia, Gayle Rubin, and lesbian feminist S/M support groups like "Samois" and "Outcast" have been resources in their working towards an actualization of lesbian and S/M communities and fictions of the past towards the queer sexuality and politics we're into.
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Ginger will present a selection of film and video work from Cinenova, women's film and video distribution made with Emma Hedditch.
http://www.cinenova.org.uk
Ginger Brooks Takahashi (b. 1977) lives in New York, maintaining a social, project-based practice, collaboratively creating situations for sharing work. Among these projects: LTTR, a queer and feminist art journal, and projet MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE project, a traveling exhibit of artist books and zines. LTTR has presented public projects at documenta 12, The Generali Foundation, The Kitchen, Art In General, and received Printed Matter's Emerging Artist Publication Award in 2005. Takahashi completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2007. She has exhibited at venues including Artists Space, NY; Art Metropole, Toronto; La Centrale, Montreal; Space 1026, Philadelphia; and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.
http://www.brookstakahashi.com