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

I’m in awe of Dorian Katz’s phenomenal curatorial abilities. Doing Your Dirty Work was a fucking amazing show, and I’m privileged & honored that I got to go take a peek at it today before it got taken down. Today, I’m also very much wishing that art about sex & sexuality was NOT ghettoized or treated as “less serious” or less important in the way that it often is. I say this not as a visual artist, but as a writer who mostly deals in the dirty, tender stuff, and who has had my own work called into question again & again because of the sexual content.

Art & writing about sex is RELEVANT! It is SERIOUS (except when it is funny or silly)! It is LEGITIMATE! It is IMPORTANT! It touches the very core of who we are & what we desire as humans! Apparently I have strong feelings about this!

I am going to this tomorrow! You should go too, if you can figure out a way to get to Stanford. My very brilliant friend Dorian Katz curated the event. I’m so excited to see what comes out of this discussion.

Art Censorship Issues: a Screening of Wojnarowicz’ “Fire in My Belly” and Panel Discussion
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 · 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Annenberg Auditorium – Stanford University, 435 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

In response to the recent censorship of the exhibition “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, Stanford University’s Department of Art and Art History and SICA invites you to a special screening of the censored film “Fire in My Belly” by David Wojnarowicz and a panel discussion on art censorship with faculty members, students and cultural leaders from the Bay Area. Regular readers may remember Marlene’s discussion of this situation here.

Moderated by Nancy Troy, Chair, Art & Art History Department

Featuring:
Enrique Chagoya, Professor, Art Practice
Sarah Curran, Arts Programmer, SiCa
Julia Haas, Co-founder, hideseek.org
Petra Dierkes-Thrun, Visiting Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature
M. Renee Huff, Esq, ITL Law, PC
Dorian Katz, MFA Candidate, Art Practice
Larry Rinder, Director, Berkeley Art Museum
Matthew Tiews, Executive Director of Arts Program, SiCa

hideseek.org lists screenings of the film across the globe and has links to relevant articles.