Wednesday, July 14
Virginia Puff-Paint does New York
EXPLOSION LTTR
PRACTICE MORE FAILURE
JULY 17- AUGUST 5, 2004 >
NEW YORK, NEW YORK>br? ART IN GENERAL - 79 Walker St.
www.lttr.org www.artingeneral.org
Come celebrate the release of LTTR Issue 3: PRACTICE MORE FAILURE!
With LTTR's third issue, themed "Practice More Failure," editors K8 Hardy, Emily Roysdon, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi seek to enthuse process and practice as opposed to the masterpiece. An annual collectively-made art journal, LTTR brings together a community of queer and feminist artists, writers, and cultural producers.
JULY 17 RELEASE, 7-10PM
ART IN GENERAL - 79 Walker St.
with:
Lesbians on Ecstasy, Libber, Virginia Puff-Paint, Portrait Studio by Cass Bird, DJs Lez Celeb and the Chairman.
The Lesbians on Ectasy are a live dance outfit from Montreal, Quebec. They steal liberally from the lesbian back catalogue, referencing artists like K. D. Lang and the Indigo Girls, to create booty shaking dance hits that maintain the politically infused edge of many early sapphic songwriters.
Libber is a new performance project by Wynne Greenwood of Tracy and the Plastics. Libber brings percussion-based songs and video in a marching band style to the stage.
Virginia Puff Paint [Jeremy Laing and Will Munro], porn superstar of the glittery craft underworld, tickles multiple lacy orifices with detacheable foam-stuffed fringed spandex cocks in a heavily embelished and much anticipated debut release. Catch this insatiable vision of hand-stitched poly-sexuality, dripping sequined entrails from padded stomach cavities, begging to be plowed by a rhinestoned stiletto. Peer through the glory hole
Cass Bird is a phototographer from LA who takes sensitive and striking portraits of the queer community. Cass Bird will set up a functional photo studio in the gallery to take portraits during the Release.
JULY 19 "ELUSIVE QUALITY" FILM/VIDEO SCREENING
Curated by Astria Suparak and Lauren Cornell
Participant Inc 8:30 PM
Named after the stud Elusive Quality, sire to our unwitting national hero Smarty Jones, the program proposes: What may be sweeter than success are the thresholds crossed while making of all sorts of socio-personal mistakes. In line with the theme of LTTR's third issue, "Practice More Failure", ELUSIVE QUALITY champions the realities of failure in relation to fantasies of athletic, sexual, and
political achievement and mastery, presenting video works that, together, make for a powerful aesthetic of the undone. Consciously inglorious and imperfect, they reset the goalposts for success and then win at their
own games. Includes works by Lynne Chan, Toyshop Collective and Virginia Puff-Paint [Jeremy Laing and Will Munro], among others. View a Virginia Puff-Paint trailer here.
PRACTICE MORE FAILURE
JULY 17- AUGUST 5, 2004 >
NEW YORK, NEW YORK>br? ART IN GENERAL - 79 Walker St.
www.lttr.org www.artingeneral.org
Come celebrate the release of LTTR Issue 3: PRACTICE MORE FAILURE!
With LTTR's third issue, themed "Practice More Failure," editors K8 Hardy, Emily Roysdon, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi seek to enthuse process and practice as opposed to the masterpiece. An annual collectively-made art journal, LTTR brings together a community of queer and feminist artists, writers, and cultural producers.
JULY 17 RELEASE, 7-10PM
ART IN GENERAL - 79 Walker St.
with:
Lesbians on Ecstasy, Libber, Virginia Puff-Paint, Portrait Studio by Cass Bird, DJs Lez Celeb and the Chairman.
The Lesbians on Ectasy are a live dance outfit from Montreal, Quebec. They steal liberally from the lesbian back catalogue, referencing artists like K. D. Lang and the Indigo Girls, to create booty shaking dance hits that maintain the politically infused edge of many early sapphic songwriters.
Libber is a new performance project by Wynne Greenwood of Tracy and the Plastics. Libber brings percussion-based songs and video in a marching band style to the stage.
Virginia Puff Paint [Jeremy Laing and Will Munro], porn superstar of the glittery craft underworld, tickles multiple lacy orifices with detacheable foam-stuffed fringed spandex cocks in a heavily embelished and much anticipated debut release. Catch this insatiable vision of hand-stitched poly-sexuality, dripping sequined entrails from padded stomach cavities, begging to be plowed by a rhinestoned stiletto. Peer through the glory holeCass Bird is a phototographer from LA who takes sensitive and striking portraits of the queer community. Cass Bird will set up a functional photo studio in the gallery to take portraits during the Release.
JULY 19 "ELUSIVE QUALITY" FILM/VIDEO SCREENING
Curated by Astria Suparak and Lauren Cornell
Participant Inc 8:30 PM
Named after the stud Elusive Quality, sire to our unwitting national hero Smarty Jones, the program proposes: What may be sweeter than success are the thresholds crossed while making of all sorts of socio-personal mistakes. In line with the theme of LTTR's third issue, "Practice More Failure", ELUSIVE QUALITY champions the realities of failure in relation to fantasies of athletic, sexual, and
political achievement and mastery, presenting video works that, together, make for a powerful aesthetic of the undone. Consciously inglorious and imperfect, they reset the goalposts for success and then win at their
own games. Includes works by Lynne Chan, Toyshop Collective and Virginia Puff-Paint [Jeremy Laing and Will Munro], among others. View a Virginia Puff-Paint trailer here.
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