reeraw at Sheroes #10: Grace Jones in salonnière mode with Lavish Bat (Se Ye).
Styled lovingly by Porcelaine Desire. Mas bodice by Brianna McCarthy. Vamp extensions by John Taccone & his Navigate team (in particular, Joanna DeLoso & Anthony Taccone). Make-up by Miss Janet Vu.
Photos by Tony Halmos. Event GIFs by Lorna Mills.
SAVE THE DATE: VIRTUAL SEASON
Herstory done right.
SUNDAY
JULY 29
Co-presented by
SHEROES + WhippersnapperTL;DR version? Our art party series ends in July, but we’re co-partnering with Whippersnapper Gallery to make sure it’s done did right.
Click here for more information regarding our central closing event, which will be a part of the gallery’s summer programming initiative.
Tell us a bit about your latest or ongoing project. What about Sheroes #9: Dolly Parton?First of all, Sheroes is the invention of the extremely generous and multi-talented salonnière, Rea McNamara. It’s a monthly limited-run performance event series that frolics in the aesthetic playground of media fandom such as fan fiction, fan art, fan videos, fan costume play etc. http://fuckyeahsheroes.tumblr.com/tagged/sheroes-9%3A-dolly-partonRea had already produced the first two in the series, when she approached me about programming projections of animated gifs. I admit that I was unsure of the project at first, there’s a part of me that cringed at expressions like ‘sheroes’, ‘herstory’ and ‘mythic female’, all that debased coinage from a previous generation of feminists, but she won me over when I saw how she was embracing it with so much smart humour and energy. I think we only invited about six artists for the first gif projections, but they were so enthusiastic after seeing the event documentation that I got the confidence up to invite more gif artists to participate. Eventually Rea just left the GIF aspect of the events in my hands. What we now have is an ever expanding crew of gif makers, (we are up to 29 for Sheroes #9) that includes many well known active net-artists, as well as younger artists, both male and female, from all over the world. Previously, my own taste in exhibitions/events was more towards small tightly focussed curatorials. Inviting serious artists to participate in fan culture has had some surprising results, though no one should be surprised that serious artists want to do their best work no matter what, or that the work gets better and better.
animated GIFs sheroes dolly parton work-in-progress dolly/carl
Herstory done right. The Mythic Woman Power Chorus Mixtape for Offerings Magazine.
1. reeraw x the matriarch x the witch - “feeling the stutter”
2. mama backbone - “heed the warning”
3. first lady of the canyon x mama backbone - “dreamland”
4. reeraw x noloves x the matriarch - “woman” (jam shed remix)
5. may day - “operattack”/”slave to the rhythm”
6. reeraw x david balzer x analog girl in a digital world x first lady of the canyon x the material girl - “for the deb”
7. kid a x reeraw x the grande dame - “as tears go by” (sheroes remix)
8. backwoods barbie - “i’ve lived my life”
The titz and glitz of Backwoods Barbie
Dolly Parton latest inductee to the League of Legendary Ladies
Sheroes will be presenting their latest event, Sheroes #9: Dolly Parton, on Thursday, April 26 at The Beaver (1192 Queen Street West).
The monthly, limited-run art party series — which brings together on and offline works that playfully and peformatively explore the iconography and fan culture surrounding the League of Legendary Ladies — will be headlined by singer/songwriter Ada Dahli of the Toronto urban folk collective Fedora Upside-Down.
I love me some Andrew Benson brillance.
The quote, in full:
“I’m so amazed at how much conversation Dolly is generating. I’ve long admired her as someone who has taken total ownership of her image. There is no joke you can make about her that she didn’t already make herself. She has been enormously successful as a woman in a very male-dominated niche (country western!!!), and has crafted an ingenious asexual hyperfemininity that she deploys with wit and cool-headedness and power.”
My GIF for Sheroes #8, which was a reinterpretation of granitecanyon’s Marianne Faithfull Polyvore set. (I was also thinking a lot about this essay.)
reeraw at Sheroes #8: Marianne Faithfull in salonnière mode. Styled lovingly by Porcelaine Desire. Hair by John Taccone & his Navigate team. Marianne eyes by Miss Janet Vu. Photo: Tony Halmos.
