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My thesis show will consist of a large-scale installation based on a series of interviews with sex workers that explore the idea of “performative emotionality,” sex work as labor, and the role of intimacy in the life of a sexual laborer. Gender and queer theorists such as Judith Butler and Eve Sedgwick write about how [...]
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Auto Erotic Ethnography As artists, we are taught to observe and reflect; we draw the negative spaces between shapes, tracing them out of the air, acting out the signifiers of visual desire while sublimating our own. We document each experience and installation with exacting attention or studied nonchalance. We subscribe to the idea that the [...]
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SPEAKING TO LAS VEGAS IN THE LANGAGE OF LAS VEGAS For this piece, I chose to mimic an everyday activity on the Las Vegas Strip – I recreated the act of passing out “Hooker cards”, the advertisements for illegal prostitution that are distributed on the Las Vegas Strip. I created my own hooker cards, rented [...]
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