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Yael Davids

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Yael Davids, ‘Thread’ (1995)


John Lennon / Yoko Ono – Double Fantasy

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In 1980, Yoko Ono and John Lennon released the album Double Fantasy. The second track “Kiss Kiss Kiss” is written by Yoko, who said, “There is the sound of a woman coming to a climax on it, and she is crying out to be held, to be touched. It will be controversial, because people still feel it’s less natural to hear the sounds of a woman’s lovemaking than, say, the sound of a Concorde, killing the atmosphere and polluting nature.

Listen to the song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHG7Q6UNZk4


Marianne Wex

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From the book ‘Let’s Take Back Our Space: “Female” and “Male” Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures’ by Marianne Wex  (1979)


Cindy Sherman

 

‘Doll clothes’ (1975) by Cindy Sherman. One of Cindy Sherman’s first super-8 films.


Kalup Linzy

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Kalup Linzy (born July 23, 1977) is an American video and performance artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Clermont, Florida, Linzy graduated from the MFA program at the University of South Florida in 2003. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture video art workshop, and in 2005 received a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. Linzy was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2007. Linzy’s best known work is a series of video art pieces satirizing the tone and narrative approach of television soap opera. Linzy performs most of the characters himself, many of them in drag. He also performs many of the same characters on stage.

Kalup Linzy, excerpt from ‘Keys to our heart’ (2008)

Interview here

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