Gina

Submit submit submit to this, visual artist friends! Last year’s show was stellar!

sexandculture:

Doing Your Dirty Work: a sampler of contemporary art about sex
Open to Artists in the United States

 “Doing Your Dirty Work” is the second annual group exhibition at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco, California. We invite all artists that are at least 18 years old to submit recent artwork that deals with themes of sexuality, sexual identity and gender identity.  Please do not censor yourself. Nothing is too dirty! Nothing is too perverse!

The Center for Sex and Culture Gallery aims to provide space for artwork of significant merit that addresses sexuality and sexual identity, especially outsider or minority sexual identity. Too often mainstream art spaces self-censor or are afraid of sexual content. Too often the standard of artistic merit in sexuality community spaces is disappointingly low. Erotic art exhibitions are too often heavily hetero, cis, or white centric. CSC Gallery makes bridging these divides and providing a solution to these shortcomings its mission.

Jurors: Dorian Katz, CSC Curator and Marlene Hoeber, CSC Director of Collections

Submissions are due at midnight Friday, May 15th, 2013.  The show will be from Friday July 5^th through Friday, August 30^th.

To enter your work, send the following to sexandculturegallery@gmail.com:

• 5 images, jpegs less than 2mb each
• List of images with size, media and title (in the body of your email)
• Artist CV (attachment)
• Statement of up to 300 words about your work. Send one statement only and not one for each of the 5 images (in the body of your email)
• On the main page of http://www.sexandculture.org/ click on the green donations button on the right side of our main page to pay $15 entry fee through the option Doing Your Dirty Work. (Note that you have paid entry fee in body of your email.)

·       The gallery space also serves other uses so floor space is not available. We do not have equipment to present video work, but will accept wall-mounted video work with provided equipment. Wall-mounted sculpture is also acceptable.

·       In subject line of email, write “Art Submission – 2013

Deadline: 05-15-2013
Center for Sex and Culture
San Francisco, CA

Contact: Dorian Katz
email: sexandculturegallery@gmail.com
Website: http://centersexculture.org

And some nights, Marlene & Dorian come over, bring you 17 pounds of cheese & 8 pounds of chocolate, and Marlene swears at your broken dishwasher like the South Phillie girl she is. AND FIXES IT.

Also, 3 pounds of CANNOLI CREAM.

1a. The Wojnarowicz screening & panel at Stanford were phenomenal. Dorian Katz is a wonder to behold, folks. Seriously, she is SO wise & talented, and hours later I’m still thinking about all the connections she made in her talk.
1b. Relatedly, I am having a lot of thoughts about art, writing, porn (and in particular how I relate to (a) writing porn, and (b) porn performance), academia (and my love/hate relationship with the academy), censorship, & self-censorship. I really want to get all of these thoughts down, but my brain’s a bit too full/fried. I keep starting to write and then clicking on Brian Eno videos on YouTube instead. I think this mean I should go to bed & try again tomorrow. Soon, though, I promise.

2. Speaking of Brian Eno (and art, and sex)? On the way to Stanford with Marlene & Steven, I listened to Here Come The Warm Jets for the first time, and pretty much felt like I was losing a virginity. Seriously, it was a momentous occasion. You know how sometimes music just makes you feel electric & alive? It did that for me.