1-hour performance, net art, installation
Palais de Tokyo
2018
Untitled (Larry & Bobby Kissing) is a networked performance series that explores queer representation through reenacting Robert Mapplethorpe’s iconic photograph of two leathermen kissing. For Palais de Tokyo, I was Bobby and the public was Larry. Anyone could kiss me in the. The IRL kiss was positioned in the back of the auditorium and the CAM4 livestream was projected on stage. Interestingly, the audience avoided sitting between the actual and projected kiss.
Curators
Christopher Clary
Paris Ass Book Fair
Performers
Christopher Clary
Public
Venues
CAM4
Palais de Tokyo
Documentation
Guaizine
Paris Ass Book Fair
Press
Vice
Untitled (Larri & Bobbi Kissing)
1-hour performance, net art, 2-channel video
International Center of Photography
2018
This version of the kiss was a “checking” of my chosen family, in that Larry and Bobby were played by women — one black, one white, boifriends, leatherwomen. For ICP, the audience sat in the center surrounded by the IRL kiss between Paloma Gil and shawné michaelain holloway and projections of the kiss that was being livestreamed to CAM4. Artist Nayland Blake said, “Often the photographic image becomes the stopping point and museums of photography are a parade of ‘perfect’ indissoluble moments that then never go on from that reality. Seeing you flow into and out of that is radical.”
Curators
Christopher Clary
ICP Library & Museum
Performers
Paloma Gil
shawné michaelain holloway
Venues
CAM4
ICP
Documentation
ICP
Jacque Donaldson
Award
New Jersey State Council on the Arts
FkN JPGs (episode 25)
1-hour performance, net art
CAM4
2016
Untitled (Larry & Bobby Kissing) evolved from my FkN JPGs series where I reenacted an image from my pornography collection every week on CAM4. For episode 25, I worked with Paul Soulellis to activate the Mapplethorpe kiss and because of the audience I had to further explore it further.
Curators
Christopher Clary
Paul Soulellis
Performers
Christopher Clary
Paul Soulellis
Venues
CAM4