What a Drag! / la Barbe! then Map the Soul of the Planet!!

Come and enjoy my show at the Mori Gallery, 168 Day Street, Sydney 2000, Town Hall Station, opening Wednesday 10th of June 2009 and running till Saturday 4th of July. If you are wondering about gender, feminist issues, virile values threatened by parity and how men get alarmed, panicked even! about it, come and enjoy the videos, photos, texts and performance! Then maybe you too shall put on a beard! (There will be some that fits your best sulks and smiles) Anthropology and Politics and Visual thoughts on new media, technoogies but still obsolete mentalities around sexism and its avatars, this is what this show is about, an open forum to debate about those highly post-modern, reccurent and crucial issues.




.... then, on Friday 12th of June 2009, come to Alpha House Artits Co-operative Gallery, 226 Union Street, Erskineville, for a second show of mine, Map the Soul of the Planet! This time, it is an ecological and epistemological concern that animates the images I questioned:
Given the canonical representations of space, countries and land, what part does our imagination play in attributing a certain part of truth to them. How do we, as human beings, relate to them and have a certain knowledge, or belief about them? Come and think, or dream, in front of these borders turned into characters caught in an imaginary situation. Come and share a moment with the artist, as this is my ultimate show before leaving the country (maybe forever!!)

His-story & his-steric

Let's do a bit of cratylism (cf: Plato, Cratylus); i.e. let's interpret words according to the parts they're composed of, as if they had a meaning as well as the word itself:
History was made by men for men in the sphere of the public space where women are excluded a priori. We shall then deduce that history, his-story, is a manifestation of his-sterics: 'steric' relates to the spatial arrangement of atoms around in a molecule, the 'Free dictionary online' tells us. Therefore, his-sterics designate the science of the way men arrange around themselves what they consider to be an extension of their beings, their belongings, from the house, the war, to the wife, and the mental certitudes of such a patrimonial and matrimonial arrangement.
And they wanted to make us believe that 'hysteric' is a woman's thing?! No way. Even if this is more a joyous delirium than a serious theoretical reflection on etymology and epistemology, it has its part of wisdom, if your imagination is based on but goes further than your straight reason ;-)