Snikorts - JUSTINE LAI - JOIN OR DIE
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snikorts
snikorts
Snikorts
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 09:46 am
JUSTINE LAI - JOIN OR DIE








In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives. The presidency itself is a seemingly immortal and impenetrable institution; by inserting myself in its timeline, I attempt to locate something intimate and mortal. I use this intimacy to subvert authority, but it demands that I make myself vulnerable along with the Presidents. A power lies in rendering these patriarchal figures the possible object of shame, ridicule and desire, but it is a power that is constantly negotiated.

I approach the spectacle of sex and politics with a certain playfulness. It would be easy to let the images slide into territory that's strictly pornographic—the lurid and hardcore, the predictably "controversial." One could also imagine a series preoccupied with wearing its "Fuck the Man" symbolism on its sleeve. But I wish to move beyond these things and make something playful and tender and maybe a little ambiguous, but exuberantly so. This, I feel, is the most humanizing act I can do.






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tvarj
tvarj
only after dark
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 09:49 am

nu gan es tevi atfrendoju, jo taadu daili mana acs nepanes!


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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 09:54 am

ļoti patīk


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safe
safe
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 10:56 pm

tā pirmā ir kolosāla!


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