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"Oriental Flavor" installation and live performance 44 packets of Oriental Flavor ramen noodles in hot bathwater sesame oil, ginger oil, and sriracha sauce bathroom installation with research material, chimes, and disposable cameras Madame Butterfly opera on soundtrack

Last night I debuted a new performance piece, “Oriental Flavor” in which I took a hot bath with 40 packs of ramen noodles and had viewers pour sesame oil on me while confronting them in the intimate space of a bathroom at Anatomy/Gift/Association presents: The Cabaret Cabaret (photo credit: @g_b4g ) #queer #art #performance #asian #orientalism (at Pilsen)

#performance #orientalism #art #asian #queer #madame butterfly #ramen #food #food as art #Body Politics #Consumerism #consumption #colonialism

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Someone was trying to fat-shame me.

Didn't work. I look too fabulous.

#no shame #divas from the underground #Porn Again vol.2 #Sofia Moreno #Body Politics #body policing #queer #Gender Roles #Jerry Blossom

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New work by Shandi Hass

See more here.

#feminine #girl #woman #queer #hair #body #Body Politics #photograhy #portraiture

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www.jonjohn.net

(via JON JOHN: “The two of us” borderline biennale sept 2011)

Jon John.. (Dermal plastician artist, Performer).. Jon John is a young french artist expatriated in berlin. Just like the duality inside his name, his performance acts reveal two different aspects of himself which belong to each other... For the past few years, Jon John has been fascinated, concerned and obsesed with RITUALS. Body language, normativity in today's plastic beauty, fashion dictatorship, conformism, architecture and space, communication and language, erotism and gender. ..are his favourite topics. This led him into involving his body into plastic mutations and physical live acts which are paradoxicaly mixed with poetic sensibility... Aside from his own performance acts, Jon John has gained recognition with his live surgery acts with Bastien, his stage partner for the project and concept "un autre corps". .. Besides and in a lighter direction, you can also attend his aerial, twisted and sarcastic bondage entertainment shows, his politicaly incorrect streap tease and lap dances, and many other performances, which he more generally calls "lightning entertaiment" or "boylesque show"

Source: jonjohn.net

#queer #burlesque #boylesque #performance #art #body #Body Politics

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Jerry Blossom will be appearing at the Defibrillator (1136 N Milwaukee) for Kokorokoko's Video Girls, a burlesque and performance night celebrating the girls of 1980's music videos.

Wednesday, August 8 Doors at 8/ Show at 9

Facebook Event Page

Jerry Blossom is the performance and burlesque alter-ego of artist Kiam Marcelo Junio. Jerry stars in Kiam's ongoing series Model Minority, which explores tensions and interactions of racial and gender identities, specifically between Asian, American, Filipino culture, and in dialogue with contemporary queer and body politics.

About Jerry Blossom: Jerry Blossom is an Asian person of ambiguous descent. He is often seen wearing a blonde wig, and uses foundation that’s at least 3 shades lighter than his natural skin tone. Outwardly, he seems to be desperately trying to fit in to a Western ideal image of blonde hair and fair skin, and yet he does so critically and consciously. He is not “playing whiteface” or acting as or pretending to be, a white person, but rather, embodying (or failing to embody) the standards of global whiteness.

Jerry is a social chameleon, able to ingratiate himself in the favor of people from varied personalities, gender ambiguities, and social classes. By changing his personality with each encounter, however, “the real Jerry Blossom” remains a mystery. Jerry is also an entertainer and somewhat of a celebrity in Southeast Asia, and is the current face of Eskinol, a skin lightening facial cleanser popular in the Philippines.

(Taken with Instagram)